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The Local Loop; Modems

  • The 20hz ringing current (Floyd Davidson)
  • 60hz hum (Floyd Davidson)
  • Dealing with ambient noise (John Higdon)
  • Line balance (Floyd Davidson; John Higdon)
  • Baud (Ron Dippold)
  • Busying out a line (John Higdon)
  • Cable loading (Floyd Davidson)
  • Cable splicing (John Higdon; Larry Lippman)
  • Cable TV system reliability (John De Armond)
  • Category 5 cable (Floyd Davidson)
  • Channel banks (the curse of modems) (Floyd Davidson)
  • Techniques for complaining (Floyd Davidson; John Higdon)
  • Conference bridges (Floyd Davidson; John Higdon)
  • CPC (Al Varney)
  • CSUs (Floyd Davidson)
  • Decibels (Al Varney; Floyd Davidson)
  • The Demarcation point (Floyd Davidson)
  • Spoofing of dialback modems (John B. Nagle)
  • Digital pads (Floyd Davidson)
  • Digital Line Concentrators (Fred Goldstein)
  • Dry pairs (Floyd Davidson)
  • Fast busy (Alan L Varney; Floyd Davidson)
  • Hybrids (Floyd Davidson)
  • Infinity transmitters (John G. De Armond; Brian Kantor; Larry Lippman; W1GSL ("Steve F"))
  • Gel cells (John G. DeArmond)
  • ISDN (Fred Goldstein; John Nagle)
  • The ISDN encoding (Al Varney; Fred R. Goldstein)
  • ISDN modems (Fred Goldstein)
  • Ordering ISDN (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Line balance (Floyd Davidson)
  • Line current (Floyd Davidson)
  • Line quality (Floyd Davidson)
  • Detection of line stealing (John Nagle)
  • Loop current (Floyd Davidson)
  • Modem dialing wait commands (Floyd Davidson)
  • Modems being fried (John R. Levine)
  • Modem signal levels (Floyd Davidson; tabourian@compuserve.com)
  • Modems on satellite lines (Floyd Davidson)
  • Modem SNR (Floyd Davidson)
  • Modular cables (John Higdon)
  • Remote control (Floyd Davidson)
  • REN (John Higdon; Julian Macassey)
  • RF interference (Floyd Davidson; John Higdon)
  • Ring detector circuit (Henry Spencer)
  • Sealing current (Floyd Davidson)
  • The Shannon limit (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Shielding (Floyd Davidson)
  • Intermittent shorted line (Floyd Davidson)
  • Sidetone (John Higdon)
  • Subscriber carrier (John Higdon)
  • Tariff violation charges (Floyd Davidson)
  • Telephone fishing (John G. DeArmond)
  • Getting test numbers (Floyd Davidson)
  • Twisted pair (Floyd Davidson)
  • UK phone wiring (Julian Macassey)

    Central Switching; Long Cables

  • The 1ESS switch (Al Varney)
  • Automatic Message Accounting (Floyd Davidson)
  • Answer supervision (Fred R. Goldstein; John Higdon)
  • Antistatic precautions (Floyd Davidson)
  • B8ZS (David G. Lewis; Al Varney; Floyd Davidson; Ken Becker)
  • Cable rustling (Larry Lippman; Michael H. Warfield)
  • Call forwarding loops (Brian Kantor; Al Varney)
  • Call waiting and 3-way calling (Al Varney)
  • Choke networks (John Higdon)
  • Clock slips (Floyd Davidson; Fred R. Goldstein; Ken Becker)
  • Central Office batteries (Floyd Davidson; John Higdon)
  • Central Office fires (Larry Lippman)
  • Congestion control (Alan L Varney)
  • Central Office cutover (Alan L Varney)
  • Distributed switching (Fred Goldstein; Floyd Davidson)
  • DMS maintenance (Floyd Davidson)
  • E+M signaling (Floyd Davidson)
  • Emergency switch-in-a-truck (Al Varney; Pat Turner)
  • Advantages of fiber optics (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • The grace period before billing starts (Floyd Davidson)
  • Internet phones (Fred R. Goldstein; John Higdon)
  • Long Distance carrier test numbers (John R Levine)
  • Line Load Control (Larry Lippman)
  • The "no test" trunk (John R. Covert)
  • Oceanic cable (Floyd Davidson; John Nagle; John R. Covert)
  • Old central offices and dialing speed (Steve Bellovin)
  • Panel-type central office switches (John Higdon)
  • Permafrost (Floyd Davidson)
  • Phone privacy (Floyd Davidson)
  • Pressurized cables (Larry Lippman)
  • Ring generator machines (John Higdon)
  • Robbed bit signaling (Floyd Davidson)
  • Routing errors (Alan L Varney)
  • Same number error (Barry Ornitz; Patton M. Turner)
  • Switch resources (Floyd Davidson)
  • Switch type detection (Al Varney; Fred R. Goldstein)
  • T1 (Floyd Davidson)
  • T1 signaling (Floyd Davidson)
  • T1 synchronization (Floyd Davidson)
  • Radio

  • 902mhz (Barry Ornitz)
  • Airplanes and cellular phones (George Goble)
  • Alaskan radar (Floyd Davidson)
  • CDMA (Phil Karn; Ron Dippold)
  • Cell phone antennas (Brian Kantor)
  • Cell phone GPS (John De Armond)
  • Cellphone fingerprinting (Erik Ramberg; John Higdon)
  • Arthur C. Clarke and geosynchronous orbit (Ron Dippold)
  • Digital packet networks (Phil Karn)
  • FM interference (John Higdon)
  • Highway emergency phones (Brian Kantor)
  • Microwave spectrum use (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • NTSC (Jim Rees; John Higdon)
  • Passive repeaters (Barry Ornitz; John DeArmond)
  • Radio phone power figures (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Satellite reception (Floyd Davidson)
  • Tropo scatter (Floyd Davidson)
  • UHF propagation (Klein Gilhousen)

    Politics, History, Social Engineering

  • The suppressed article from 73 magazine (Fred R. Goldstein; John G. DeArmond)
  • ADSL politics (Macy Hallock)
  • Alarm autodialers (Henry Spencer)
  • AOSs (John De Armond; John Higdon; Larry Lippman)
  • ASCAP (John De Armond; John Higdon)
  • AT&T sales, as of 1990 (Dave Levenson; Roy Smith)
  • Autovon (Floyd Davidson)
  • Bell Atlantic (David Lesher; Fred Goldstein)
  • Bill collection (John Higdon)
  • Billing accuracy (John Higdon)
  • Blue boxes (David Lesher; John Higdon)
  • Telemarketing boiler rooms (John De Armond; Julian Macassey)
  • California phone companies (John Higdon; Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Recording your own calls (John G. DeArmond; Floyd Davidson; John Higdon)
  • Carterfone (Fred R. Goldstein; John Higdon)
  • Chicago (Brett Frankenberger)
  • Chicago freeway control (Alan L Varney)
  • COCOTS (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Competition (John Higdon)
  • Credit card merchant accounts (John Higdon)
  • Digital line costs (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • European phones (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • FBI wiretapping (Floyd Davidson; Fred R. Goldstein)
  • The FCC (John Higdon)
  • Flat rates for local calling (Floyd Davidson; Fred R. Goldstein)
  • German phone story -- 1968 (Robert S. Helfman)
  • The GSM cipher (Ross Anderson)
  • John Higdon (John Higdon)
  • The growth of the Internet (Floyd Davidson)
  • The inward operator (John R. Covert; Robert E. Seastrom; Bill Chiarchiaro; Gabe M Wiener)
  • ISDN politics (Floyd Davidson; Fred R. Goldstein; Macy Hallock; Henry Spencer)
  • ISDN SPIDs (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • ISDN standards (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Phones in Japan (John Higdon)
  • Larry Lippman (Barry Ornitz; Marvin Minsky)
  • Determining whether a call is local (Macy Hallock)
  • Local call competition (Fred Goldstein)
  • MCI (John Higdon)
  • Modem tax (various attempts) (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • NSAKEY (Brett Frankenberger; Thor Lancelot Simon)
  • Pacbell PCS hack (John Higdon)
  • Pakistani phones (Julian Macassey)
  • Phone sex (Pat Townson)
  • PICC (Fred R. Goldstein)
  • Pirate radio (John Higdon)
  • Presidents (John Nagle)
  • PUC interventions (Fred Goldstein)
  • Radio idiots (John Higdon)
  • Rural lines (Fred R. Goldstein; Larry Lippman)
  • Phone company secrecy (John Higdon)
  • Sprint ANI spoofing (John Higdon)
  • Sprint (Fred R. Goldstein; Ronald D. Havens)
  • Telegraph cables
  • Telemarketers (John Higdon; John DeArmond)
  • Toll alerting (John R Levine)
  • Touchtone charges (John Higdon)
  • US West (Floyd Davidson)
  • Wrong numbers (Andrew Peed; John Higdon; Roy Smith)