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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help 2834F won't recognise Australian dial tone
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 00:53:20 +0200
- Message-ID: <4jpmp0$aq3@mips.pfalz.de>
- References: <4ircln$7jp@oznet03.ozemail.com.au>
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- Christopher Platt <vk3kcp@ozemail.com.au> writes:
-
- > Hi, I have a 2834F internal 28.8 Faxmodem which I purchased in the US by mail.
- > The PC talks to the modem fine, and the modem will try to answer incoming calls,
- > but for some reason when I try to dial it reports "NO DIAL TONE" I have tried to
- > vary a number of settings and S registers to no avail.
-
- Disable dial tone detection when dialing out: X3.
- It also consider it very likely that the modem will "recognize" the
- Australian remote ringing sound as a busy signal. To disable dial tone
- and busy recognition: X1.
-
- > Surely modems are not country specific!
-
- Modems *are* country specific to a certain degree. In fact, local law
- usually requires that a modem be especially approved, otherwise
- connecting it to the local phone network is illegal. Don't buy a modem
- abroad if you don't know what you are dealing with. Great Britain and
- many of her former colonies use call progress tones that are different
- from those found in the US and many other places.
-
- I assume this "2834F internal" is a generic Rockwell glue'n go job, in
- which case it just might support the *NC country select command. Try
- AT*NCnn with "nn" replaced by
- 40 (Australia)
- 48 (New Zealand)
- 16 (United Kingdom)
-
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