On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 14:45 +1100, James Gray wrote: > > > At tleast this was how the regs were written back in '95 when I was > > > AUSTel Certified. Things may have changed - usual disclaimers apply. > > > > Jesus thats scarey. Why isn't my power socket AUSTel certified ? > > Because the assumption is that you are using AUSTel approved > network/telephone > equipment which has been certified to meet the isolation requirements. > > I've personally seen what happens to a thin-ether (10base2) network when a > PC's power supply decided to send all 240VAC through the motherboard and > hence the network card. Goodnight Irene for everything else too. However, > the same machine had an AUSTel certified internal (ISA) modem - the PABX it > was running through was untouched. > > See the difference?
Sorry, I think my irony was not clear enough. I'm not saying the austel standards based/useless/wrong. I was pointing out that my *power supply* is electrical equipment, connected to the phone network but not certified. So I dont see why *other equipement* cannot also be considered outside the bounds of the standards, because of the same isolation requirements. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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