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- From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Phone line compatibility with high-speed modems (AMLs)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.142255.24282@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:22:55 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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- When the phone guy was installing my second phone line, he asked me what
- I would be using the line for. I told him it would be dedicated to a modem
- (convinced the FCC's modem tax hadn't been instituted yet :) and he said
- that he'd have to switch my main line with the additional line, (at no cost
- to me...) because he was using an AML (additional main line) instead of
- actually running another line to my apartment.
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- Apparently, an AML is an encoding box which allows you to piggyback one
- phone line on top of another. He showed me the box, and it looked sufficiently
- complex to do this job. He also said the phone company pays something like
- $800 per box(!). Does anyone know what the effects of these things are?
- I thought that any line that carries voice at phone-company standards of
- quality would be able to carry modem signals...
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- Curiosity is getting the better of me...
- dylan
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