When I'm away for my weekend job I use my powerbook
since I have a portable dialup account. The phone jack
is in another room, about 55 feet. I actually just
measured the distance! No problem. Everything works.
--- James Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I need to do some "temporary" cheap 'n cheezy
> connecting and am hoping to
> entirely avoid having to explore home networking.
> Can anyone tell me how
> far away you can have a CPU from a phone jack (for a
> dialup connection)
> before any sort of connection-crippling attenuation
> sets in? For some
> reason, "6-10 feet" keeps running through my head.
> This box is going into a
> hallway (don't ask) and I'm hoping to just run a
> phone cord from the nearest
> phone jack which, unfortunately, is about 15-20 feet
> away.
>
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