Rik van Riel:
> > Well for one you will find that people use different wires in each direction
>
> The telephone system uses one pair of wires for both directions
> of traffic.
>
Not quite. The detailed characteristics may well be significantly different
for each direction. For instance, punchdown blocks or changes in wire
gauge may introduce reflections which affect only one direction.
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