roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) (08/04/89)
Our building was re-wired with 4-pair station wire a couple of
years ago when they put in a new AT&T System 25. The phones are those new
fancy electronic merlin-type phones (excuse me, voice terminals) which use
3 pairs. This leaves the 4th pair free for me to run appletalk over, which
is great, almost. The problem is that the wiring runs terminate in 8-pin
modular jacks and PhoneNet is designed to pick up the outside (B/Y) pair of
a normal 4-pin jack. I had thought of just mounting RJ-11s next to the
8-pin blocks and jumpering over with a short run of station wire, but they
have insulation displacement connectors; no reasonable place to get at the
conductors to run a jumper.
So, what I need is the following adaptor. At one end, an 8-pin
modular plug. At the other end, an 8-pin modular jack, with the first 3
pairs fed straight through from the plug. On the other other end, a
modular jack with the 2nd pair patched through to the 4th pair of the
modular plug. You plug this into the wall-mounted jack, plug your
electro-phone into the feed-through jack and your Macintosh into the 4-to-2
patched jack, and you're all set. As far as I know, no such beast exists,
nor is there anything like a RJ-patch-it-yourself kit (these sorts of
things are popular with the RS-232 crowd). Any suggestions?
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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