On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:08:57 +1200, you wrote:

>A multiple cable is when the cable appears in more than one location. Your
>cable could "T" off and go down a side road as well as carrying on down the
>street and another side road. Think of your line as a water pipe, when you
>want another tap you T in and run the new pipe to the new location. To
>utilize cable it can be run to more than one location, this is a multiple
>cable terminal. This can have side effects on high frequency data traveling
>down the cable.

If memory serves me correctly another name for this is tales, or do I
have the wrong end of the stick.

When I was in Christchurch I had the tale removed from my 28k8
connection and it improved the reliability of the connection
immensely, this was in a heavy industrial area right on the boundry of
one exchange area and another so the physical line length was already
long by the time it got to my place.

-- 
Cheers for now
Ross Dawson.
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