Wayne W. Hardy - aka Coryphaeus

Telecommunications Trainer - Analog and Digital.

Fujitsu Fiber Optics Turn-up and Maintenance

Please click "The Bottom Line" below for my resume

 

 

Welcome to my page.  As you will see, I will present varied subjects, but they will relate to subjects revolving around computing and telephony.  I'm talking telephony that most people don't know exist.  Telephony that your ISP generally doesn't understand, your "high tech techies" can't relate to, and the reason your 56K modem won't connect at 56K.  And why there is nothing you can adjust in your PC or laptop to make this happen.   Since the beginning I have learned more and more about computers.  And I do know a thing or two about analog and digital data.  Because of this I will list links for trouble shooting your PC, information not generally known about analog and digital data, and some that are just plain fun.

 

One of the first things you should notice is the absence of “junk”.  No popups, banners, ads, Java, Flash, cookie requests, nothing to interfere with your viewing.  This site resides on my “home built” and is not on any commercial server, it is totally under my control.  To see how it works, scroll down to “The Specifics”.  It is totally free and just my contribution to the Net.  I hope you enjoy. 

 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

 Benjamin Franklin – 1759

Telephony 101

This is a quick overview of why your modem will never connect at 56K.

Connect speed is directly related to the distance between your modem and your local telephone central office. The telephone cable pair, due to its makeup, is a capacitor. Analog data is an analog signal (between 200 and 4000 Hz) and capacitance opposes any rapidly changing direction of current or change in voltage. By its nature, capacitance holds down analog data and attenuates (drops) the signal power level. This drop in power level will cause the modem handshake to negotiate a slower speed to prevent errors. Therefore, the greater the distance, the more capacitance, the greater the signal loss, the slower the connect speed will be. It's just plain physics. The makeup of the telephone cable pair is dependent on several factors. Gauge, length, bridge tap, end section, loading, pair gain devices (SLC-96, Series-5, DISC*S), range extenders (MFT, REG units), even the type of central office switch. This distance I am talking about is the distance between your modem and the central office or the Remote Terminal in a Pair Gain system. Even the number of analog to digital conversions will affect the speed. For detailed information (but no formulas), please read the topics below. I have written it in plain English, but if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

 

 

Five Places to go to find the answers (Click‘em)

           

                                   

 

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Me first

The Bottom Line (My Resume)

My Bio  (A brief history of me)

Technology

What a cable pair really is and how it gets from the Central Office to your house.

How length affects connect speed and why your modem will never connect at 56K.

What is power and how is it measured in telephony?

A Short Course In DSL  (ADSL is an analog signal, folks.)

Free Software  (Free stuff I’ve collected)

Anti-Parasite Suite  (The essentials for a Parasite free machine)

Smoke Defined

All electronic components are carefully designed and have smoke added. Many man hours and dollars are needed to place the smoke inside each and every piece, from resistors, to transformers, to diodes. It's very time consuming and labor intensive, but thankfully the smoke doesn't add to the cost. It's an added perk, and the smoke actually makes the components and devices work.  In fact, smoke is critical to the operation of the device or component.  That's why when you let the smoke out; the device doesn't work any more.

Science

The Sun  (What’s the weather 93,000,000 miles away?)

Earthquakes  (Where, when, how big.)

Fun

Forum Friends: The Faces Behind The Posts  (Put a face on that post)

CNetNot, The day the Software changed  (When CNet changed software it was a fiasco)

Moderator Tales from the Clueless  (Questions and answers we wish we’d seen)

Rules for Life  (A teenager’s reference list)

PIC (Pilot In Command)  (The ground crew responds to pilot complaints)

The Plan  (The true story of management philosophy)

Southern Rules  (A survival guide for Yankees)

Our Wheels (What the old folks drive)

Wallpaper (Some magnificent photos – Warning!  Some of these are huge, but worth the download)

Movies  (Stuff from the ‘Net.  Some large files but worth the look)

Teaching Math  (The sad facts)

Old Tyme Telephony (Pictures from the past, some I’ve done!)

The Good Old Days (Now I’m going to date myself.)

Family & Stuff

The Family (Ok, you knew it was coming, indulge me, ok?)

My brother Dan’s site  (Welder, EMT, web designer, investor expert, etc.)

Chili  (Best real chili you ever made)

Chicken for Tacos  (Fill your tortilla with this)

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cobbler  (Prepare at your own risk)

The Fountain  (My little project)

The Wedding (Brother Dan, the first one at 50)

 

In Memory  (The girls)

The Boys  (The replacements)

The Specifics (white paper)  (My site and the machines that run it)

(The SETI graphic is clickable, will open in a new window.  Join the search.)

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A quick course in binary



A special thanks to my brother Dan who gave me the domain as a birthday present a few years ago. 

He built the original site.  But I couldn’t leave well enough alone.

 

 

Speakeasy Speed Test

 

 

Site updated/fixed 02/8/06

 

 

 

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