Hi August, 
On 22 Jan'98, at 22:40, you wrote this to me about 
"PHONE LINES": 
 AA> Bell Canada now imposes a "demarcation"
 AA> jack in phone installations.  The 
 AA> phone company's position then becomes: 
 AA> anything beyond the demarcation point 
 AA> into the house is the customer's 
 AA> responsibilty and anything prior to the 
 AA> demarcation point rests with the phone 
 AA> company.  The demarcation jack makes it 
 AA> really easy to test if the problem lies 
 AA> with the rest of the phone wiring 
 AA> inside the house, or whether the problem is "outside". 
Bell Atlantic does the same thing here, now. It's called an interface. 
Nowadays, when phones service is installed, the phone company attaches 
a grey box on the outside of the house. That box has two accesses, one 
of which is for the phone company only. The other, which can be 
padlocked by the customer, has modular jacks inside, and that's the 
side the customer is responsible for. I don't have such an interface, 
since my service was installed about 13 years ago. What the phone 
company did for me was to install a jack for each line inside the house 
at the closest point to the outside (one jack below the windowsill, the 
other on the baseboard just below that window). I wired the house with 
wall & baseboard jacks for each extension I wanted. Personally, I would 
prefer the interface to be mounted INSIDE the house as opposed to the 
outside. Things have changed so much since the phone company break-up. 
Ray Madison 
70661.2471@compuserve.com 
madisonr@auhs.edu 
U.S.A. 
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