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TELECOM Digest     Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:25:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 185

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Some Fear Law Would Create National ID Card (Monty Solomon)
    Change is in the Air for Boston Radio (Monty Solomon)
    Do You Know Where Your Identity Has Been? (Monty Solomon)
    ID Theft Alleged at D.C. Blockbuster (Monty Solomon)
    End of Analog TV / Will America's Favorite Technology Really (M Solomon)
    Podcasting (Lisa Minter)
    When the Blogger Blogs, Can the Employer Intervene? (Monty Solomon)
    SAR Ratings For Cell Phones - Where? (woodboat@gmail.com)
    Microsoft to Add 'Black Box' to Windows (Lisa Minter)
    Apple Retaliates Over Jobs Biography (Lisa Minter)
    Telstra Trials Hotspot Wholesale - AustralianIT.com.au Report (L Minter)
    Nortel Advances on U.S. Security Market (Lisa Minter)
    Juniper Buys Two Corporate Networking Startups (Telecom dailyLead USTA)
    Vocal Launches VOIP Adapter Design (Jack Decker)
    Sipura's CEO Strikes Gold - Again (Jack Decker)
    Re: Lingo (Primus Telecommunications) Horror Story (Ed)
    VoIP (Choreboy)
    Re: International DID Supply (Dan Turin)
    Re: Politics in Telecom (hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com)
    Re: Main Web Site Hackers Are Schoolboys, Watchdog Says (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: 10base-T & POTS in Same Cat-5 Cable? (GlowingBlueMist)

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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:09:55 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Some Fear Law Would Create National ID Card


By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to pass a law that would make
sweeping changes to the nation's system for issuing driver's licenses
by imposing stringent requirements on states to verify the
authenticity of birth certificates, Social Security cards, legal
residency visas, and bank and utility records used to obtain a
license.

House Republicans attached the bill to a must-pass supplemental
spending package for troops in Iraq without first putting it through
the usual legislative scrutiny of hearings and debate. Should it
emerge intact from House-Senate negotiations over the spending
package, it could be law next month.

Touted as an antiterrorism measure, the "Real ID Act" would also
overturn laws in nine states that allow illegal immigrants to obtain
driver's licenses. If a state does not comply with any provision of
the law, its residents would no longer be able to use their driver's
licenses for federal identification purposes, such as for boarding a
plane.

The law, some say, would effectively turn the new driver's license
into a national identification card. Its chief champion, House
Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, says
the measure would help prevent terrorists from fraudulently gaining
official documents that would allow them to enter the country and move
freely.

Another set of provisions would significantly raise the standard of
proof that asylum applicants must meet when claiming that they have
been persecuted on ethnic, religious, or political grounds. It would
also grant greater discretion to Homeland Security officials to reject
asylum seekers and curtail the ability of appeals courts to issue
stays of deportation orders and review rejected cases.

Terrorists have "used almost every conceivable means of entering the
country," Sensenbrenner said in a statement provided by an aide.
"They have come as students, tourists, and business visitors. They
have also been [legal permanent residents] and naturalized US
citizens. They have snuck across the border illegally, arrived as
stowaways on ships, used false passports, and have been granted
amnesty. Terrorists have even used America's humanitarian tradition
of welcoming those seeking asylum. We must plug these gaps."

But many critics of the Real ID Act say that it goes too far and that
its language is riddled with problems that might have been corrected
through the normal legislative review process.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/04/26/some_fear_law_would_crate_national_id_card/

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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:44:09 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Change is in the Air For Boston Radio


By Clea Simon, Globe Correspondent  |  April 21, 2005

In the old days -- two months ago -- listeners knew what to expect. 
You could turn on 'Mix' WBMX-FM (98.5) for fun new pop by Rob Thomas 
or Green Day and get the occasional nostalgic Bon Jovi tune mixed in. 
WBOS-FM (92.9) played it mellow but fresh, with the latest adult rock 
from Los Lonely Boys or the Wallflowers. And 'Star' WQSX-FM (93.7) 
was dance music old and new: Donna Summer meets Salt-N-Pepa.

Then, suddenly, they all started sounding a little similar and a 
little strange. Rock tunes ran into hip-hop, a current top hit segued 
into a '70s throwback. DJs were muted, if there at all, and everyone 
was advertising the playlist was wide open.

Are the playlists -- the formatting -- really gone? Not exactly. 
Boston radio may be putting more tunes into rotation, but they'll 
probably be tunes you already know. Because Boston, to varying 
degrees, is going 'Jack' -- a hot new radio format designed to win 
back listeners and snare a bigger piece of an ever-diminishing pie.

What is 'Jack'?

Put simply, it's a format that abandons the conventional wisdom that
listeners respond to song repetition and station self-promotion.
Instead, it substitutes a broad playlist of familiar hits that cross
musical genres and programs them with virtually no talk.

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2005/04/21/change_is_in_the_air_for_boston_radio/

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:46:28 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Do You Know Where Your Identity Has Been?


To ensure that their personal information isn't hijacked, consumers
need to protect themselves. Here are some tips to help keep your data
out of the wrong hands.

By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff  |  April 24, 2005

"Who steals my purse steals trash," wrote William Shakespeare in
'Othello.'

These days it's the other way around. Steal somebody's trash, dig out
his old credit card bills and tax documents, and you're well on the
way to emptying his purse, and making his existence a living hell.

It's called identity theft.

Real money is at stake, and lots of it -- more than $50 billion,
according to the Federal Trade Commission.

As always, crooks go where the money is, and where the pickings are
easy. Information about people -- from Social Security numbers to
computer passwords -- is all too easy to get, thanks to careless
consumers and businesses.

The recent rash of security breaches at data centers makes many
realize it's a bad problem -- though not as bad as we sometimes think.

According to TowerGroup, a Needham consulting firm, most of the
estimated 10 million cases of identity theft cited in 2002 were
standard credit card and check forgery scams.

Fewer than 200,000 were serious attempts to duplicate someone else's
identity, in an effort to get new credit cards, drivers licenses, or
passports.

Still, that's more than enough to worry about, especially considering
the immense impact of these crimes. Victims are often presumed guilty
and must spend lots of hours and dollars to prove their innocence and
clear their records.

State and federal lawmakers are rolling out legislation to toughen the
penalties for identity theft and to force companies to lock down their
customers' private data.

Better laws might help, but only to a point. We've got to protect ourselves.

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/04/24/do_you_know_where_your_identity_has_been/

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:00:52 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: ID Theft Alleged at D.C. Blockbuster


Ex-Worker Accused of Taking Customer Data, Spending $117,000

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer

A former employee of the Blockbuster video store in Dupont Circle has
been indicted on charges of stealing customers' identities, then using
them to buy more than $117,000 in trips, electronics and other goods,
including a Mercedes-Benz.

A grand jury charged that Miles N. Holloman stole credit card numbers,
Social Security numbers and other private financial information from
the application files of 65 customers of the Blockbuster store in
2003, then used some of that data to open retail store and credit card
accounts.

According to the indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, Holloman,
25, repeatedly succeeded in pretending to be other people.

Prosecutors say he allegedly ran up major expenses by tapping the
credit of at least five people. In one case, they say, Holloman
obtained a replacement credit card in one male customer's name, then
used that credit card to buy a used 2002 Mercedes and to obtain a
D.C. driver's license that bore the customer's name but Holloman's
picture.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042501411.html

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:23:27 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: The End of Analog TV


The end of analog TV
Will America's favorite technology really go dark next year?

By Michael Rogers
Columnist
Special to MSNBC

Depending on the outcome of discussions in Congress, television as we 
know it may end at exactly midnight Dec. 31, 2006.

That's the date Congress targeted, a decade ago, for the end of analog
television broadcasting and a full cutover to a digital format. If
enforced, that means that overnight, somewhere around 70 million
television sets now connected to rabbit ears or roof-top antennas will
suddenly and forever go blank, unless their owners purchase a special
converter box.  Back when the legislation was written, New Year's Eve
2006 probably looked as safely distant as the dark side of the
moon. But now that date is right around the corner and Congress and
the FCC are struggling mightily to figure out what to do.

Congress, however, left itself a loophole in the 1996 legislation, and
could actually let the cut-off date slide by. But powerful lobbyists
now are pressing legislators to set a "date certain" for the analog
lights-out. The debate over when to throw the switch is a strange brew
of big money, high technology, homeland security and a single,
unanswerable question: just how angry are the couch potatoes going to
be?  It's also a textbook example of why the future almost never
happens as fast as technologists promise.

It all started back in the Eighties, when the Japanese shocked
American consumer electronics companies with trade-show displays of
high definition television sets that delivered razor-sharp images and
stunning audio.  Everyone from Congress to the Wall Street Journal
raised outcries: America's favorite technology was being taken over by
the then-fearsome Japan Inc.  As a result, a group of American
companies formed the "Grand Alliance" that leapfrogged the Japanese
technology by inventing digital HDTV. Thus, early on, HDTV invoked not
just pretty pictures, but national pride and economic
development. (Ironically, Zenith, the most all-American commercial
participant in the Grand Alliance, is now South Korean-owned.)

One drawback to the U.S. version of HDTV was that to make it work, all
broadcast television (not just high-definition) would have to convert
to digital, meaning that every American television set manufactured
since 1946 would be rendered obsolete. To ease the transition,
Congress generously gave all television broadcasters additional
channel space so that they could keep broadcasting their analog
signals while they installed and launched their digital channels. The
deal was that they would give up their old channels when the
transition was done. That part worked: Over 1400 broadcasters now
transmit in digital as well as analog, reaching 99 percent of the
U.S. television market.

During the same period consumers were supposed to buy digital
television receivers. That part didn't work.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7593620/

------------------------------

From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Podcasting
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:17:36 -0400


Have you given any thought to Podcasting? Here is a free download of
iPodder software if you are interested in it.

http://cbs5.com/techtuesday/local_story_094145759.html
Free iPodder Download:<br /><a href="http://www.download.com/3000-2182-10368846.html">www.download.com/3000-2182-10368846.html</a><br /> 

To read a bit more on the topic, and the rest of the story go to:

http://cbs5.com/techtuesday/local_story_094145759.html

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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:49:03 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: When the Blogger Blogs, Can the Employer Intervene?


By TOM ZELLER Jr.

There are about 10 million blogs out there, give or take, including
one belonging to Niall Kennedy, an employee at Technorati, a small San
Francisco-based company that, yes, tracks blogs.

Like many employees at many companies, Mr. Kennedy has opinions, even
when he is not working. One evening last month, he channeled one of
those off-duty opinions into a satiric bit of artwork -- an
appropriation of a "loose lips sink ships" World War II-era propaganda
poster altered to provide a harsh comment on the growing fears among
corporations over the blogging activities of their employees. He then
posted it on his personal Web log.

But in a paradoxical turn, Mr. Kennedy's employer, having received
some complaints about the artwork, stepped in and asked him to
reconsider the posting and Mr. Kennedy complied, taking the image
down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/technology/18blog.html?ex=1271476800&en=1119577e37c30918&ei=5090

NOTE: To read the New York Times on line each day with no login or
registration requirements, go to:
http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/nytimes.html    You'll also find
the Christian Science Monitor and audio from NPR at that location. 

------------------------------

From: woodboat@gmail.com
Subject: SAR Ratings For Cell Phones - Where ?
Date: 26 Apr 2005 20:02:02 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Where on the internet can SAR ratings be found for cell phones,
esp.

  Nokia
  Motorola
?

"rfhealth@motorola.com" emailed back to say try this website but
it just goes to a page with a general-purpose description of SAR
information and a statement that "all motorola phones comply".

I found some European or Malaysian websites which didn't have the
current US models but otherwise looked useful.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:19:53 PDT
From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Microsoft to Add 'Black Box' to Windows


By Ina Fried

Redmond will add the equivalent of a flight data recorder to PCs. Such
detailed information could rankle privacy advocates.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+to+add+black+box+to+Windows/2100-1016_3-5684051.html?tag=sas.email

Read all technology news from this week:
http://www.news.com/thisweeksheadlines/

Copyright 2004 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
CNET Networks, Inc.
235 Second Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
U.S.A.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This 'black box' is intended to provide
Microsoft with the six or seven things you had done prior to having a
crash on your Windows OS.  That may or may not be something desirable
for users.   PAT]

------------------------------

Date: 26 Apr 2005 21:59:16 -0700
From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Apple Retaliates Over Jobs Biography


It appears Apple and Steve Jobs got very annoyed by something which 
was published about him in the new biography which was written. As a
result, not only are some Apple-controlled bookstores _not_ selling
the book, but they have dropped _everything_ published by Wiley. 

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050427/ap_on_bi_ge/book_of_jobs

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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:04:42 EST
From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Telstra Trials Hotspot Wholesale - AustralianIT.com.au Report


by Andrew Colley, April 27, 2005

TELSTRA is conducting a trial that could see its WiFi hotspots opened
to its wholesale internet customers.
 
http://www.australianit.com.au/articles/0,7204,15101545%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
 
------------------------------

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:06:19 PDT
From: Lisa Minter <lisa_minter2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Nortel Advances on U.S. Security Market


An interesting update on Nortel here in the USA.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=706230

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:00:21 EDT
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: Juniper Buys Two Corporate Networking Startups


Telecom dailyLead from USTA
April 27, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=21149&l=2017006

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Juniper buys two corporate networking startups
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Verizon, Showtime sign carriage deal
* T-Mobile site lets users map service quality
* Report: Mobile data revenue poised for growth
* Verizon, Level 3 report earnings
USTA SPOTLIGHT 
* Telecom Engineering Conference at SUPERCOMM: Register Today
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* TBS to launch broadband game network
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* Deloitte & Touche to pay $50 million in Adelphia fraud case
* FCC holds firm on VoIP strategy

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=21149&l=2017006

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From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld_on_request>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:26:12 -0400
Subject: Vocal Launches VOIP Adapter Design


http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=72872

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- VOCAL Technologies Ltd., a developer of integrated
software and silicon solutions, announced today the release of their
new Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) reference design, which allows for
enhanced VOIP performance and telephone functionality.

ATA's designed to the new specifications would be able to communicate
with remote standard telephones located up to 1000 feet away over
standard existing telephone wiring without disrupting existing
services. With the addition of just over $3 of hardware and
downloadable software modules, the, standard VOIP telephone service
can be enhanced to provide class 5 switch services, such as multiple
incoming lines, conferencing, internal dialing, distinctive ringing,
and a host of other services. This would results in a Bill of Material
cost of close to $22 for a standard 2 by 2 (2 LAN ports, 2 telephone
ports) ATA.

Full story at:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=72872


How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home:
http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

If you live in Michigan, subscribe to the MI-Telecom group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MI-Telecom/

------------------------------

From: Jack Decker <jack-yahoogroups@withheld_on_request>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:00:17 -0400
Subject: Sipura's CEO Strikes Gold - Again


http://voxilla.com/voxstory159.html

By CAROLYN SCHUK
for VOXILLA.COM

Cisco Systems announcement that it's buying privately-held Sipura
Technology Inc. for its Linksys division shouldn't be too
surprising. This is the second company serial entrepreneur Jan
Fandrianto has sold to the networking giant.

His previous start-up company, Komodo Technology, which developed the
first low cost VoIP analog telephone adaptor, was acquired by Cisco in
2000. Fandrianto's technology became the basis of Cisco's ATA-186
product line, which became the de-facto standard for VoIP equipment
and is largely credited as the single device that helped propel IP
telephony in the consumer sphere.

Full story at:
http://voxilla.com/voxstory159.html

------------------------------

From: Ed <poepauv@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Lingo (Primus Telecommunications) Horror Story
Date: 26 Apr 2005 18:05:01 -0700


Hi Ginger,

Thanks so much!  You have put my mind at ease.

I'm in the State of Maine.  I suspect that the laws here are similar
to Massachussetts.

Your post prompted me to look at the following page available on the
Internet at the Maine Attorney General's office:

http://www.state.me.us/ag/index.php?r=clg&s=chap12

One of my rights that I was intrigued by is the right to a prompt
delivery.  Looks like I'm well within the limit since my order was on
August 13 and I've received no equipment ever in 8 months (and would
be horrified if they sent it now -- I don't want it!).

Another thing that intriqued me was the right to sue in small claims
court for an order over the Internet.  I foolishly believed that I
would have to take a day trip to Delaware (a possibility) because
Primus is incorporated there for business in the US.  Looks like it
can all be done through the Maine courts if I understand correctly.

In any case, I have no plan to sue anyone over anything.  It's a
just-in-case if they were to keep harassing me.  I say this because
I've been promised that they would stop billing me so many times
without result.

These bills just keep on coming!  The last invoice, according to the
Final Notice Prior to Placement with a Collection Service (actual
title in bold at top of letter), is 02/28/2005 with a due date of
03/30/2005.  So, they've been billing me all along in spite of
numerous numerous phone calls to try to resolve this.

I can't understand why they would bill my credit card (for real) 4
different times plus try but fail on other occasions and still not
investigate.  Doesn't it mean anything to Primus Telecommunications
when a credit card company reverses charges (as my credit card company
did all 4 times)?

Maybe they have their side of the story but I just can't understand it
from where I sit.  Why didn't they bother to look to see if they had
sent equipment instead of wasting all that postage mailing letters and
all that time talking to me on the phone?

It costs them money to make mistakes like this.  Surely they must
realize this.

I don't get it.  I just can't understand what these people were
thinking.

Ed

------------------------------

From: Choreboy <choreboyREMOVE@localnet.com>
Subject: VoIP
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:56:40 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com


For several months I've been getting calls with spoofed Caller IDs.  I
understand spoofing requires either VoIP or a PBX system with DSL.

Can anybody with cable internet access and suitable software make VoIP
calls?

The other day I received a wrong-number call from an exchange belonging
to Level 3 Communications.  Among other services, they offer residential
VoIP services through wholesalers such as ISPs and cable operators.  I'm
confused.  Does a consumer need these services to use VoIP?


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I don't think either 'VOIP' or 'PBX system'
have anything to do with it. If I understand correctly what I have
read here in the Digest, it requires a 'PRI' type thing; that is, a
multi-channel set of lines going to DID, or Direct Inward Dialing,
which would, I guess, be similar to a PBX arrangement. Companies who
have those lines _can_ set the caller ID to be whatever is appropriate
in their instance. I suspect the fact that the ID shown was that
company may have been just coincidental. You do need either cable
internet or DSL to use VOIP; regular 'dialup' lines are just not wide
enough or fast enough to do VOIP. But other than having DSL or cable,
VOIP takes nothing especially fancy; just an adapter box from the
place where you get the VOIP service and any regular telephone
instrument will do the job.  And if you planned on totally getting
rid of your landline phone taking VOIP instead, that is generally
not possible with DSL, since most telcos will not give stand-alone
DSL.  PAT]

------------------------------

From: Dan Turin <turin@ggaweb.ch>
Subject: International DID Supply
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:02:44 +0200


Hello Peter,

I saw your post about having European DIDs available and wonder what
the terms are.  I have a small VoIP service here in Switzerland and am
looking for as wide an array of international numbers as I can get.
If you don't have numbers outside of Europe, do you know of another
source?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Dan Turin
Dear group,

> We have DID's available mainly from Europe. Other countries are
> being added.

> Calls will be forwarded to your softswitch via SIP or H.323.

------------------------------

From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Politics in Telecom
Date: 27 Apr 2005 09:39:53 -0700


Steve Sobol wrote:

> This particular perk happened to be different. It was supposed to be
> available to anyone.

The New Deal social programs were supposed to be available to anyone.
But in many places throughout the country it sure helped to be a loyal
Democrat, especially if you wanted a job helping to administer such
programs.

------------------------------

From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Main Web Site Hackers Are Schoolboys, Watchdog Says
Date: 27 Apr 2005 09:52:10 -0700


Lisa Minter wrote:

> LONDON (Reuters) - Attacks on company and government Internet sites
> spike during school holidays when the main culprits -- schoolboys --
> spend time in front of their computers rather than in the classroom.

This doesn't surprise me in the least.  Kids were doing it in a crude
way back when I was in high school.  (They would get into time sharing
systems, figure out ways to crash them or access executive accounts
and create accounts for themselves).

The question is what is to be done about it.  What troubles me is that
when news like this is posted everyone here ignores it.  There are a
lot of network techies on this newsgroup and like it or not, as such
they have a responsibility to at least think about these things in a
global sense, not just to protect their own tiny piece of the kingdom.

Automated routines that constantly send out test-inquiry signals put a
lot of wasted traffic on the Internet as well as waste computer time
of recipients.  Owners of personal networks tell me even their
firewalls report constant attempts to breach.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: We had some excitement today here on
the CableOne system. Around 1 PM some damn fool customer 'gave birth'
to a 'worm', thinking it would shut things down. Well, it did. About 
five minutes after he released the worm, CableOne gave a loud and 
boisterous 'hiccough'. The tech support center cleaned it up pretty
fast, but a large number of their customers (including myself) got
bumped in the process. All we could get was the 'registration page'
which is always offered up when a new piece of equipment is put on
someone's personal network (such as a router, etc). And, clicking on
the 'registration page' returned a message saying 'registration is
not available right now, try in a few minutes'. All of us who were
affected had to reboot our entire systems, the cable modem of course,
the routers and whatever. I guess CableOne identified who the moron
customer was who did it and gave him much hell. I first discovered I
was down when the local CableOne office here in town called me and
said "the techs do not know what is going on just yet, but _everyone_
is getting that registration page and can't go further than that. We
will call you back as soon as we get word."  About five or ten minutes
later, she called again and said to close it all down, reboot it and
try again. I did, and all was fine. 

I wanted to know a bit more, of course, so I called the Phoenix tech
support center. (Due to the commotions the hold time was about 20
minutes, which is quite unusual.) The techs told me about the
'hiccough' and said they were encouraging everyone to make certain they
had the latest firewall and anti-malware stuff installed. PAT]

------------------------------

From: GlowingBlueMist <nobody@invalid.com>
Subject: Re: 10base-T & POTS in same Cat-5 cable?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:35:45 -0500
Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source


DaveC <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.BE9508D6000D9A6AF04075B0@news.sonic.net:

> Is it acceptable to use 1 pair in a Cat-5 cable for POTS when 2 pair
> are being used for 10base-T? Wondering about cross-talk, etc.,
> introducing noise between these two.

> Thanks,

> Please, no "Go Google this" replies. I wouldn't
> ask a question here if I hadn't done that already.

> DaveC
> me@privacy.net
> This is an invalid return address
> Please reply in the news group

No problem if you use 10base-T , usually none on 100base-T, but not
compatible if you plan to use or upgrade to 1000base-T which some
computers switches and routers are now supporting.

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