John Alleyn-Day writes:

>I hate to burst your balloon, but this is probably a bad assumption.  I
>believe the "standard" these days for telephone installations is cat 3.
>This should be more than adequate for 56KB (I use it for my ISDN connection
>which is about 144KB), but not for a 10MB network connection.  It should be
>fairly obvious by looking at the "twists per inch" on the cable.  Also, you
>can check your error-rate over the cable and whether you are picking up any
>interference on the analog lines (I presume tne other 48 pairs are being
>used for something).

Well, you know what they say about Assuming! :-)  And at least the "me"
part is true! :-)

So, I guess I've just been lucky so far, and I should really plan on doing
that fiber link between the two buildings, eh?

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