Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: home telephone wiring Message-ID: <449@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:08:30 EDT Article-I.D.: mtxinu.449 Posted: Tue Aug 20 03:08:30 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 05:37:52 EDT References: <284@hrpd3.UUCP> <1304@hound.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 44 In article <1304@hound.UUCP> rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) writes: >[] >If I were you I would check with the local phone company before I >went too far in doing it myself. Some years ago a NJBell >installer told me they (the installers) would refuse to work on >any phones in a home not wired by them. Of course this was long before >divestiture, but to check would not hurt. I know another lad who >had quite a time with NJB over the same thing even though he used >WeCo parts and followed all the right practices more religiously than >real telco installers do. Lets hope those days are gone forever. Around here, at least, the situation is now this: All of the wiring within the house is the property of the homeowner (the telco-installed wiring *used* to belong to the telco - they charged for installing it, but not for ownership; in preparation for divestiture they *gave* all the wiring to the owners of the buildings), and it's the homeowner's responsibility to ensure that it works, i.e. they'll charge for repairing it if the wiring is found to be at fault - they may even charge for the time to locate the problem. As far as recommendations go, I suggest wiring with the largest number of pairs you can afford. 25-pair cable is common and will probably hold you for a long time. The telco folks will know how to deal with it, since it's a common phone item. Whatever wires they don't use, ou can use for whatever you want - intercom buzzers, low-voltage lighting, etc. I'd also wire the *entire* house with TV coax - from some central point (in a closet somewhere that will have space for equipment and work at a later date) to every place in the house that you might want either a TV or stereo. Then, if you hook up to cable, or just want to distrubute the signal from your own antenna, you'll have the wiring in place. Wire for stereo speakers isn't a bad idea either, but if you like the kind of wire I do you can't afford to do much with it. If you'll be considering remote speakers, either in a less-than-best-sound configuration (or you're one of those folks who thinks that I'm crazy to spend all my money on speaker wire) then do it. Be sure to use heavy enough wire - 14 gauge at least, maybe 12 gauge. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality."