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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: netcom.com!puma
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: Digital Phone Line
- Message-ID: <pumaDoqE1I.G16@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <4j041e$c08@dns.ncentral.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:32:05 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- In article <4j041e$c08@dns.ncentral.com>, rhorning <rhorning@rhorning.> wrote:
- >Good Evening,
- >
- >I recently had a computer connected to a phone line at our school. Everything
- >was working fine and then as a new phone system was being installed, it quit
- >working. I'm being told that it was because it is now a digital phone line.
- >
- >Why is this and how do I get my modem working again?
-
-
- You have a few choices.
-
- If this is a local system, ie., a PBX, you may be able to get at the
- lines where they enter the building, between the PBX and the telco
- central office. If the lines there are analog, you're all set.
-
- If this is a digital CENTREX service with MERIDIAN type phones, or
- ISDN of some variant, you might need an interface box to go between the
- line and telco set that provides an analog port for the modem. DEES
- Engineering makes boxes that do this - they will likely cost twice what
- your modem did.
-
- You may be able to get an adapter that goes between the handset of the
- telephone and the base, and accesses the analog signal there. The
- results of these units are fairly good, but not as good as the other
- means since you are still dealing with the telephone set and whatever it
- chooses to do with the signal (level, sidetone, etc).
-
- And of course, the last choice is to get a separate analog line for the
- modem.
-
-
-
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