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Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days

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79 points bertman | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 06:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bombcar ◴[05 Sep 25 10:33 UTC] No.45137053[source]▶
Shouldn't feel bad about it, really. It's your/their house, and anyone buying a house (even brand new) should be expected to find all sorts of random and weird junk.

And now telephone lines themselves are rarely if ever even used anymore; the last ones I've seen have just dumped into a DSL modem.

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1. genter ◴[05 Sep 25 14:27 UTC] No.45139008[source]▶
A competent telephone technician with a toner would easily figure out what's going on.
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2. bombcar ◴[05 Sep 25 17:18 UTC] No.45141016[source]▶
I'm not sure, it took three techs three tries to figure out that the previous owner had hard-installed a DSL filter in the demarcation, and then painted it to look like part of the box.