Charles on… anything that comes along

I’ll try not to bore on this. But it would be nice if the arrival of broadband actually was that - an arrival rather than a hair-tearing process. Your advice therefore welcomed.

1) Have bought an M-ADSL microfilter, which should split the signal. Puzzling thing: the data signal seems to be coming out of an RJ-11 jack, not an Ethernet one. Also, there are only two prongs showing in the data socket, rather than four. Is that right on either or both counts?

2) I want to just plug it into my (graphite = old) Airport Base Station. But that has either an RJ-11 phone modem socket, which I assume isn’t interested in having ADSL data piped into it, or an RJ-45 (Ethernet) socket. Can’t see any RJ-11 to RJ-45 cables in the local store.

So questions are
a) is the microfilter OK?
b) do I need a modem in the middle (surely not) or do I plug the ADSL data into the Airport’s RJ-11 modem socket, or is there such a beast as an RJ-11 to RJ-45 cable?

Yes, I’m aware of the irony of my asking this, but the answer doesn’t seem to be out there.

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Simply hilarious. This is the real letter (PDF) someone sent to complain about their experience of being in seat 29E on Continental Airlines.

Reading it, you realise that perhaps it really is a good idea that they now take all the sharp objects out of hand luggage…

Snopes.com has more on it, though disappointingly it’s classed as “Undetermined” (ie there’s still the possibility that it’s not someone’s true experience). There’s also a transcript if you can’t bear PDFs, though that means you miss the little hand-drawn diagrams.

Even if it’s a fake, the person who was writing it is either a genius writer, or was very very angry anyway.

(via Waxy.org’s links - essential daily reading.)

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