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- From: hildajk1@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Ken Hildabolt)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem required for use in Europe, Asia and North America
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 02:43:08 GMT
- Organization: Applied Physics Laboratory / The Johns Hopkins University
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- In message <4c22e3$leh@mips.pfalz.de> - naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian
- Weisgerb
- er) writes:
- >
- >wcapitan@calum.uwaterloo.ca (Walter Capitani) writes:
- >
- >> As the family computer geek, I have been drafted to help my sister
- >> find a modem for her laptop that will work in Europe, Asia and North
- >> America.
- >
- >One that works is easy: take any North American one.
- >
- >One that is legal to use in all those areas is tricky. Maybe a dozen
- >modems would do the job, depending on how many countries she actually
- >intends to visit.
- >
- >Of course, whoever uses a modem "overseas" should have some basic
- >familiarity with phone systems and modems, in order not to stumble about
- >trivial things like DTMF vs. pulse dialing, dial tone recognition, etc.
- >
- >--
- >Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber naddy@mips.pfalz.de
- > See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>.
- > -- currently reading: Piers Anthony, Omnivore --
-
-
- I have two IBM international modems (PCMCIA) for my Thinkpad, it senses what
- country you are in by listing to the dial tone and sets itself up
- accordingly.
-
-
-
- Ken Hildabolt hildajk1@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
-
-