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You likely had something called a 'pair gain' installed - which worked much like DSL, by using a high frequency FM carrier over the audio frequencies to provide
by Aloha 3y ago
You likely had something called a 'pair gain' installed - which worked much like DSL, by using a high frequency FM carrier over the audio frequencies to provide a second phone line on the same pair. These things were largely gone by the mid 90's - and were not that common in the first place.
- IntelMiner 3y agoThey plagued Australian homes up through the late 2000's unfortunately Fucking Telstra
- throwaheyy 3y agoYup, we built a new house in Australia in 2001 and thought we were being so forward thinking by getting a 2nd phone line for the modem/fax. Of course it ended up being done using a pair gain and we were stuck at 33.6k.