You can, as long as the entire house is wired correctly(it
usually is). Normal phone line uses the two inside wires(i
forget
which colors) and localtalk uses the outside wires. Of course,
if
the customer has
a second phone line, depending on how the house is wired it may
use the outside two wires.
--- Amber Rhea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I received mixed responses on and off list to my previous
> question, so I'm
> writing again. Tuesday I will be networking a customer's
> house. They have
> a beige G3 connected to a cable modem, and their three other
> (older) Macs
> and their LaserWriter II will connect via localtalk and share
> the internet
> connection via IPNetRouter. So here's the question. They have
> only one>
> phone line. The Macs are on different floors. Can I plug the
> cables from
> the phonenet adapters into the phone jacks? A book called
> "The Little
> Networking Book," and some respondents from this list, lead
> me to believe
> that I can, because apparently localtalk uses different wires
> than the
> regular telephone uses. If I can't plug the localtalk cables
> into the
> phone jacks, I guess they'll just have to have a bunch of
> cables going up
> and down their stairs.
>
> Thanks,
> Amber
>
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