> > no speakers, daughter listening to dsl jack on the wall while son playing > online game. she recognized the music from the game! > > well ok there's quite possibly a loop of wire in there, and a metal screw > in the center of the plastic cover. but still, generating audible sound > from the dsl packets? yow! > > I doubt that was the case. My best bet was the bass was vibrating it > through the wall. > dsl jack behind a desk centered on exterior wall, modem and computer in different corners of opposite wall. you are supposing the bass was generated how/where? Another remote possibility is some sort of grounding issue where RF from > the sound card that got transmitted down the ethernet cable and caused some > sort of resonation in the DSL modem. > my first guess was the sound card generating some sound even without any speakers, and sound does hug walls, but hearing that from the opposite side of the room around 2 corners not to mention windows, doors and other obstacles and behind a desk? i shooed her out to get under there myself, and indeed heard a teeny weeny tinny musicalish sound seemingly coming from the surfacemount phonejack, but like all the best woowoo stories it stopped before i could scooch the desk and get my ear to the jack, and thereafter neither of us heard it again.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140109/f431a819/attachment.html>