>Is it true that RJ-11 cables from phonenet adapters can be plugged into a
>standard telephone jack on the wall of a house in order to connect Macs in
>different rooms or on different floors? I was recently contacted by a family
>who has five Macs in their house; two on the ground floor, two upstairs, and
>one in the basement. They want to network them for file and print sharing.
>Now, I am not going to undertake this project if I have to go poking around
>with the wiring of their house, but if localtalk can go through the phone
>lines in the house, I'll do it. Thanks!
It uses the second line connections of an RJ-11, pins 2 & 5. The phone
uses pins 3 & 4. If the house was wired for two phone lines then you might
be set, more or less. If it is wired for more than one line make sure the
line you use for LocalTalk is disconnected at the demarcation point
(demarc) where the phone lines from the pole are hooked up to the household
lines. You never know what The Phone Company (TPC) might do. The two
farthest points of the network should have 120 ohm resistors connected
across them to provide proper termination.
In my current house I was pleased to discover that the original owner had
had 6 pairs of phone wiring strung daisy chain around the house when it was
built. Thus all I had to do was connect a second pair and terminate it.
That was until I went Ethernet and had to add a whole slew of new wiring.
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Redwood City, CA, USA
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