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- From: vclant12@interserv.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 60Hz buzz on phone line & modem problems
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 19:25:07 GMT
- Organization: InterServ News Service
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- > >But one other thing to check is the type of wiring
- > >used for the telephone jacks. It should be twisted pair for maximum
- > >resistance to induced voltages. If your inside wiring is red/green/yellow/
- > >black, it is not twisted pair, and it is much more susceptible to interference,
- > >especially on long wire runs.
-
- > Is the twisted pair really significantly better? Shoot, the
- > separation of the wires in the usual flat cable is pretty small - it
- > doesn't seem like you'd get significant differential voltages induced
- > when the wires are that close together. Of course, I'm far from a
- > phone expert - I have no idea how many uV / mV/ V of differential
- > voltage would result in audible hum in a typical phone...
-
- it is significantly better. one of the few cases where practice follows
- theory. have you tried using a flat cable to connect parallel-interface
- printer to PC as opposed to a round one? it fails after about 6 feet.
- Meshing/hashing of wires reduces crosstalk significantly, same as
- susceptibility to induced signals from the outside (loop cross-section
- exposed to induction flips back and forth effectively cancelling the
- distortion). It evens out the parasitics to make all pairs similar.
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- vc_lant
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