There are enough wires that it should be possible (though maybe a little ugly) to terminate at station one, go to the basement, patch through that pair to station two, then use a 2nd pair of wires in that cable for a "return" from station two, then patch that to the wire to the 3rd station and terminate at that end...if that makes sense. Then, aside from some strange wiring, it would be as through it is running end to end in a line...
Wesley On Fri, October 7, 2016 9:45 am, theonetruestick...@gmail.com wrote: > I don't have experience with passive star, but if you only have two > devices it should work fine. Phonenet does only use one pair, but it's the > 2nd pair > on a normal two-pair phone line, so you will need 4-wire phone cords into > your phone jacks. Just make sure pair 2 is wired together at your > punch-down/ terminal block. > > Are you using the phone lines for actual telephone also? > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> So my house phone wiring all goes to one location in the basement, >> nothing is daisy chained. I have not actually counted the number of >> pairs, but I believe they used CAT 5 so it has 4 pairs. Looking at the >> phone-net instructions, it looks like I only need one pair. Is this >> correct? If that is the case what I want to do is use the house wires >> to network my old SE/30 in one room to my Centris in another room. I >> know that is what phone-net was make for, I just want to verify that I >> understand the wiring. It looks like I would build what is called a >> passive star if I were to add more nodes to this. What are the limits >> on a passive star? >> >> Thanks in advance. I never dealt with apple talk/phone net before, so >> I >> am probably over thinking this! >> >> Lou >> >> >> -- >> -- >> ----- >> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs >> group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml >> and our netiquette guide is at >> http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com >> To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscribe@ >> googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/ >> group/vintage-macs >> >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> "Vintage Macs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, >> visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and > our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to > vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this > group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, > visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
