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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!an171
- From: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Subject: Re: Connecting 2 modems without the phone line
- Message-ID: <DMDnEp.Bwv@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: an171@freenet2.carleton.ca (Anthony Hill)
- Reply-To: an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Anthony Hill)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4f62f0$re6@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:18:25 GMT
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- Doyle Armstrong (doyle@sysdeco.com) writes:
- > I am building a communications program, and I need to test it. I have 2
- > computers with modems, but not the phone line to test it with. Is there
- > a way that I can connect these 2 computers together and make them talk to
- > each other through their modems?
-
- Just plug a phone wire between the two LINE jacks of the modems,
- tell one modem to "dial" without looking for a dial tone with the ATX3DT
- command, then tell the other modem to answer usign the ATA command. This
- won't work with every modem on the market apperently, but it will work
- with most of them..
-
- Anthony
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- Anthony Hill | an171@FreeNet.Carleton.CA
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