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- From: mairena <mairena@imaginet.fr>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: ZyXEL in France
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:46:56 -0800
- Organization: ImagiNET
- Message-ID: <30FC4700.385E@imaginet.fr>
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- > >To be fully functional there your modem will need the French version of firmware microcode.
-
- > Is this true?
- > I have used my ZyXEL-1496E, bought in Canada, in several countries,
- > and never had any problem.
-
- No it is obviously not true. The modem will work fine and actually even
- better!
- French microcode includes such nice "features" as not allowing you to
- redial a busy number straight away.
-
- > >I recommend you contact the French Consulate (in most major US Cities)a month or so before departure. Better safe than sorry.
- >
- > Surely nobody obeys this kind of absurdity today?
- > No, one in his right mind would do something like that. The expense in
- time would be so enormous, that it would be cheaper to be a new modem
- in France.
-
-
- Nadim Massoud
-
- mairena@imaginet.fr
-