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- From: scott gergen <sgergen>
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- Subject: Re: Phone Wire
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 15:05:48 GMT
- Organization: United HealthCare Corporation
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- George Pontis <geo@z9.com> wrote:
- >Robert Palmer wrote:
- >
- >> >I'm trying to replace the defective telephone wire installed in my new house.
- >>
- >> Type 3 will definitely be better than what you have from the sounds of
- >> it. You also need to make certain that if the voice cable crosses any
- >> electrical wiring that it does so at a perpendicular angle to negate
- >> any emf that might be radiated from the electrical wiring.
- >>
- >
- >Type 5 is even better (more twists per foot) and has 4 pairs - which gives one
- >additional line. I recently bought a box of 1000' for $39.
- >
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- Category 3 has 4 pairs as well. You only need two wires to run a phone line, so
- this will support 4 lines, not just two. Later -
-
- Scott
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