Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:46:23 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, "Michael Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Welders causing dial-out to fail Message-ID: <20011107134708.A068237B41C@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:54:57 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: >Actually, I've been there. Sort of. > >Heavy electrical equipment can play utter hell on badly-shielded data >lines. Voice and data use very different frequencies; interference >that can destroy can leave the other untouched. > >I hear everyone bellowing "An analog modem is very different than a >data line!" I would not be surprised if something like this was >happening there. And people kind of expect faxes to look lousy. :) > >You might seriously look at the phone line you're using; run a >shielded phone line and see if your problem goes away. > >On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:00:37PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >> This may be a little off-topic ... >> I have a client who I installed a FreeBSD proxy server for. that and on a hit or miss percentage, a lot of buildings aren't wired with good cable to start with. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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