Re: Extending telephone line over mains!?

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

fantastic thanks guys,


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Erik Carlson" <erik@...> wrote:
>
> On 03/07/06, noel_pilot <HA@...> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > Horrible question here, a friend is only on dialup and we need to
get
> > a phone line to her office, no way of feasibly running a cable,
> > im sure i remember some products way back when that you plugged a
box
> > into a mains socket one by the phone csocket one by the pc and it
> > extnded it over the mains.
> > Can't for the life of me remember what they called and having a
blonde
> > moment with what to search google for!!
> >
> > any ideas?!?!
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Noel
>
> I used to extend do something similar using a BT Diverse DECT cordless
> socket, it was fine for fax machines and for what i needed it for
> which was a sky box to be able to dial in, though due to DECTs
> inherrently low bit rate you wouldn't achieve fast transfer speeds.
>
> If I had to do it again i would use something like the one for all
> mains telephone extension:
> http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page22.htm#sv1500
> The guys at satcure are pretty trustworthy and they reckon you will
> get about 42kbps on a 56k modem which isn't bad.
>
> Of course use of dialup these days is a crime!
>
> HTH
>
> Erik
>
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