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Re: [OT ish] ADSL Filter / ADSL Modem


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [OT ish] ADSL Filter / ADSL Modem
  • From: "PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:26:45 -0000
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--- In ukha_d@y..., "BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@r...>
wrote:
> I've been told that if u use all masters, u ca effectively have as
many
> phone on a circuit as u wish.

This is not right. The number of phones you can have on a single
exchange line is primarily limited by the exchanges ability to
provide sufficient current to make them all ring. Whether or not you
use master sockets through out is irrelevant.

> AFAIK, yes, the masters have a capacitor for a ring circuit, but
most modern
> phones don't need it anyway, so is irrelevant....

True enough, but bloody irritating if you happen to purchase a device
at a later date which doesn't support "two wire" ringing.

Patrick



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