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- From: RM_KIEFF@rom.tcpl.ucalgary.ca (ROM M. KIEFFER)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Modem Access From Europe to North America
- Message-ID: <telecom12.679.13@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:40:59 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 679, Message 13 of 15
-
- Greetings,
-
- One of our employees will travel to the Netherlands in the near future
- from where he will need to access various computing devices back at
- the office in Canada, with his Macintosh powerbook and built-in modem.
-
- This gives rise to several questions:
-
- - since European jack wiring is different from North American
- standards, what kind of cable will I need to build/acquire to make
- ends meet?
-
- - is it legal in to connect private modems to the public carrier?
-
- - and, are the European digital dial tones the same as the North
- American ones?
-
- (I have thought about packet carriers instead of long distance calls,
- but the services at the NA end of the link cannot be reached/used that
- way.)
-
- I would appreciate hearing from the European readers about these
- questions, either direct to me, to summarize to the net, or via the
- standard distribution.
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- Rom
-