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From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Jul 12 01:31:00 2002

> I was with a guy who was testing out LAN drops with a laptop
> to see which ones were working and we went into a conference room
> where none of the drops were labeled and due to painting and such you
> couldn't tell the difference between them and the phone lines, which
> were for a multiline system with intercom and all the other goodies.
> He plugged the laptop up to what ended up being one of the phone
> jacks and there was a nice shower of sparks. Somehow the laptop cmae
> out of it without any damage.

Strange, a 10baseT/100baseT Ethernet interface should be able withstand
telephone voltages (even ringing), even if the jack has them wired to the
data pairs. Even if it sustained damage, there should not have been any
sparks.
Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 01:31:00 BST