Actually, I achieved this with no more than a standard Ethernet socket and a BT phone socket, knocking holes through the plastic cases with a screwdriver.
Feed the cable into the Ethernet socket, and take one twisted pair across to the phone socket. Do that at both ends of your cable, and you've got phone service alongside your Ethernet.
Note that you can't have gigabit Ethernet with this setup, nor Power over Ethernet, if I remember rightly.
Touch that drop of water/oil or expose it to a change in humidity and BANG! You need a portable lens maintenance kit. Imagine having to respond to an error message on the phone by putting drops of fluid into a tine aperture! Or maybe you'd have to send it back...
Exactly, although you may have missed a step in your futurology when you say that it's trains and buses that will be 'run by computer'. Surely we're going to be seeing further statistical analysis developments long before the buses will be driving themselves.
I mean, it takes a transport company a not-inconsiderable amount of time to plan a new route to be viable. We're a long way from such a statistical system being fast enough to do that in realtime, so that Fred may be picked up where Sally is dropped and still be on the way to Michael's. Even taxi company operatives with years of experience still get it wrong, let's face it! I still think you're exactly right, and I wait with anticipation for the time when environmentally-friendly buses may be summoned and arrive at the most statistically appropriate time.
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Have you let her out of the attic, yet, or is she on long-term network maintenance duty?
Actually, I achieved this with no more than a standard Ethernet socket and a BT phone socket, knocking holes through the plastic cases with a screwdriver. Feed the cable into the Ethernet socket, and take one twisted pair across to the phone socket. Do that at both ends of your cable, and you've got phone service alongside your Ethernet. Note that you can't have gigabit Ethernet with this setup, nor Power over Ethernet, if I remember rightly.
Touch that drop of water/oil or expose it to a change in humidity and BANG! You need a portable lens maintenance kit. Imagine having to respond to an error message on the phone by putting drops of fluid into a tine aperture! Or maybe you'd have to send it back...
Exactly, although you may have missed a step in your futurology when you say that it's trains and buses that will be 'run by computer'. Surely we're going to be seeing further statistical analysis developments long before the buses will be driving themselves. I mean, it takes a transport company a not-inconsiderable amount of time to plan a new route to be viable. We're a long way from such a statistical system being fast enough to do that in realtime, so that Fred may be picked up where Sally is dropped and still be on the way to Michael's. Even taxi company operatives with years of experience still get it wrong, let's face it! I still think you're exactly right, and I wait with anticipation for the time when environmentally-friendly buses may be summoned and arrive at the most statistically appropriate time.