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- From: doswald@xmission.com (David Oswald)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Need Line Killer Switch when off Hook
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 06:24:19 GMT
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
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- Tony Tschanz <tt@swmb.com> made the following comments:
-
- >Does anybody know where I could buy a switch which physically
- >disconnects my other house phone wiring during the time when my
- >courier v.everything external modem goes off hook? Could anybody make
- >(sell) me one? I noticed I get better connections when I pull out the
- >wire from the line out in the back of my modem. The problem is that I
- >usually forget to reconnect after I'm done (And of course receive no
- >more calls). I tried phone/fax type commercial switches, but they don't
- >help. (They make it even worse and result in less than 28.8k
- >connections).
-
- At your local Radio Shack pick up something called a "teleprotector."
- It takes some creativity to use it in a way that will protect you from
- annoying phone pickups on the line, but it can be done.
-
- What you have to do is to wire all of your home's phone system through
- it and then run a separate physical lead to your modem. When the
- modem is off hook the rest of the phone system will be dead.
-
- Dave
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