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- From: ccjs@sun.cse.bris.ac.uk (J. Simpson)
- Subject: Re: How to get modem to work in the UK
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:56:28 GMT
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- There are two types of RJ11 to BT phone plug cables sold in the UK.
- The commonest doesn't work (unless you cut it in two and re-wire it).
- Most vendors don't know the difference and sell you the commonest,
- wrong one, which gives NO DIAL TONE. The correct one is sold
- specifically as a modem, or as a replacement modem cable.
-
- The one sold by Tandy, InterTan, Radio Shack in the UK as a Replacement
- Line Cord 279-7037 -7038 -7039 7040 is one of those that needs
- rewiring, I think it's used for some phones and fax machines - out
- of the packet it won't, in spite of having the correct plugs, work
- with modems.
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- : :
- : : Most problems are with the wrong cable and plug configuration. Also some
- : : UK/RJ11 adaptors are configured incorrectly as well as some manufacture's
- : : modem cables are being shipped with wires crossed thus no connection to the
- : : telephone line. I have bought six or eight modems here with telephone
- : : cables incorreclty configured.
-
- : This is a "feature", such that you need to be sure to only use the cable
- : provided with the modem to get it to work.
-
- : : You did not say if you could hear a dial tone. If not it is cabling
- : : problems as I have experienced so many times with visitors from North
- : : America.
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