14 Dec
2000
14 Dec
'00
7:17 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
I have ONE RJ21 to snake of RJ11 PhoneNets, but thats
about the
only device
I have EVER even put my hands on. Ebay has a couple items, a RJ11 patchbay
(no RJ21 cable), and a RJ21 to punchdown block (with a large reserve to
cover the "value" of the punchdown block). Pinout is trivial, each side of
the RJ21 makes a PhoneNet pair, with one pair terminated.
Unfortunately, devices and cables routinely get separated when the stuff
gets scraped. Makes me wonder how I would like to proceed, I mean
LocalTalk/Phonenet isn't exactly a real hotbed of activity, and I do have
alternate solutions (ie FastPath), but I REALLY hate to see this good
product shuffled off due to support issues. Anybody that has
Farallon stuff
or knowledge, I would like to chat with before I just give up on it.
There is still a fair bit of information about this equipment on Farallon's
web site. As you probably realize, one has to consider that only a very
large Localtalk network warrants the trouble of setting up a StarController
and its associated cabling. My office still has a "decommissioned" one,
which hasn't seen service since we switched to using ethernet.