Re: TI-H: The Phonz

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Subject: Re: TI-H: The Phonz
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 19:06:12 -0900
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>Two phone questions (reguarding old commercial surplus stuff)
>
>1. I have a speakerphone and cable that is similar to 4-wire RJ-11 except
>that it is 8 wires.  Can I cross some wires/cut some to make it
>compatible with my normal RJ11 phone system?

Not if it is a network or PBX phone system...

>2. I have several things that plug into a RJ-11 phone jack (but only use
>two wires ) and the other end of the adapter is something similar to
>coaxial but has a male tip inside and outside is another contact.  The
>round thing covering the outside contact appears to be able to twist to
>lock on to the cable as it has grooves in it.

That would probably be a way to save on networking...  Use TP instead of
coax for 10B2 networks...

8 wire phone plugs are known as RJ45.  Same as ISDN, digital telephones...

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