They sound like phone net connectors. They network ethernet challenged Macs together over LocalTalk/AppleTalk. You should also have, or will need, some terminators for each of the end Macs. This website can explain it far better than I can.
http://www.atpm.com/network/setup/localtalk_adapters.html One of the neat things that you can accomplish is to network one or more Macs over the phone lines in your house. You will have to make sure that the outside lines of your phone jacks throughout the house are connected, but it is a simple way to get DSL download speed from your broadband connection without running cat-5 through the walls or down the hall. There is more to it such as having a router that does LocalTalk, such as IPNetRouter, but if you don't have an ethernet network or several Macs without ethernet cards it works. David > From: "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "1st PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:54:51 -0500 > To: "1st PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [1st] What isit? > > I just got a big wad of small connectors that have a din8-round connector on > one end and two rj-11 phonejacks on the other. Are these PhoneNet devices? > Some are made by Farallon, others by PowerUser. What do they do (exactly) > and how do they do it? I'm assuming they connect a Mac to a phone line, but > what does that accomplish? > -- > All the Best, > > R.A. Cantrell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit R.A.'s Old Mac (mostly) Stuff @ > > http://tinyurl.com/ubkw > > > -- > 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
