While you're waiting on your internet service provider (ISP) to roll out fiber optic cable to your area for those sweet gigabit broadband speeds, maybe you should hope they tap into your phone line ...

Although cutting-edge technology reaps publicity, the real world often runs on modest hardware that's just “good enough” for home automation, alarm systems, and equipment-monitoring applications.

Well, if you use the shorty phone cable and still get problems, then you've diffused their BS line. So try it, it probably will have problems, and then you'll be right.<BR><BR>This whole "distance" to ...