Editing 454: Rewiring
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| title = Rewiring | | title = Rewiring | ||
| image = rewiring.png | | image = rewiring.png | ||
− | | titletext = My friend | + | | titletext = My friend Elizabeth tried to mail one end of the cable to me and thread the mail system. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | Nearly all buildings are wired for landline phone service. Typically, the wiring comes into the residence at one point (the telco's {{w|Network interface device}}) and then extends throughout the house to multiple jacks, so that the same phone line can be shared among multiple devices. High-speed Internet access is similar in that it originates from one point in the house (the cable modem or DSL modem). Many people wish the phone wiring and phone jacks in their residences were Ethernet (Cat-5 or Cat-6) wiring and (RJ-45) jacks for distributing Internet access around the home, so that they wouldn't have to resort to wifi (speed is comparable but reliability is less), running cables through the living area (ugly and hazardous) or rewiring-- pulling new cable behind the walls (difficult or expensive). | |
− | The | + | The comic depicts a fanciful way to convert phone lines to ethernet lines by simply faxing an ethernet cable to someone else (a fax machine being a way of digitizing something). |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Cueball is feeding cable into a device on a desk labeled "fax. | + | :[Cueball is feeding cable into a device on a desk labeled "fax".] |
− | :Fax: '' | + | :Fax: ''zzz zzz'' |
:[Outdoors, showing a plant and a lamp (indicates panels 1 and 3 are separate locations).] | :[Outdoors, showing a plant and a lamp (indicates panels 1 and 3 are separate locations).] | ||
:[Megan, laptop behind her, is pulling a cable out of a fax machine.] | :[Megan, laptop behind her, is pulling a cable out of a fax machine.] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
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