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.
Five Places to
go to find the answers (Click‘em)
No 1802 Error Message for certain older IBM ThinkPads.
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.)
Email me from the link
above. Please enter the phrase below
into the subject line of the email.
Otherwise I may interpret the email as SPAM and ignore or delete
it. Thanks.
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.
Site
updated/fixed 02/8/06