Re: TI-H: Networking

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Networking
From: "Gabe" <gabeman@earthling.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:48:39 -0400
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Or you get a channeled T1. Multiple voice lines over a single line. Not
cheap, though.

-Gabe
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Networking


>
>>SHIVANJJS@aol.com (SHIVANJJS@aol.com) wrote:
>>
>>>i thought it was possible, don't large companys alow their employees to
dial
>>>up to their networks with modems to connect to company resources
>>
>>Yes, they do.  But they have digital lines that can support many
>>connections through the same phone number.  It works like how you dial
>>into an ISP.
>
>its a phone switching station.  Any house can have 50 phones on the same
>line.  If you are really interested, you can get a rep from the phone
>company install a box on the outside of your house.
>
>Digital lines go into it (I think about 68) and you get analogue phone
>lines on the other side.
>
>Usually you have analogue signals installed to your house, your line goes
>to the phone utility, then your call is translated to digital signals,
>routed, then changed back into analogue.  It would be a waste routing 5,000
>wires to one ISP, so they do the same thing with 68 lines.
>
>Okay, I'll be quiet.  :)
>
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