Amber Rhea wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
Amber,
My understanding is that, as long as they only have one phone line
active, you can physically split the connection and use the existent
wiring for LocalTalk. You will need to attach secondary jacks at each
outlet you want to use - nickle and dime hardware stuff from your local
hardware store or Rat Shack. The active phone line will use two of the
four wires: Green and Yellow, or Red and Black - I can never remember
which. Just connect your secondary jack to the other pair - it's easy
to figure out when you're actually looking at it. Let us know how it
goes, OK?
--
Gene, a.k.a. G-Man
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