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- Date: 7 Sep 92 21:04:22 GMT
- From: julian%bongo.UUCP@nosc.mil (Julian Macassey)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Modem Access From Europe to North America
- Reply-To: julian@bongo.info.com (Julian Macassey)
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- In article <telecom12.679.13@eecs.nwu.edu> RM_KIEFF@rom.tcpl.
- ucalgary.ca (ROM M. KIEFFER) writes:
-
- > 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?
-
- Yes, you need an adapter to allow your Bell standard RJ line
- cord to plug into the Dutch jack. This question is asked about once a
- month -- when are the modem manufacturers going to cover it in their
- manuals?
-
- You can make up a "works anywhere modem kit", I have posted
- this before -- I will email to interested parties. For the fumble
- fingered, you can buy adaptor kits. There is a fellow in the U.K that
- sells them. Not cheap, but if you have screwdriver, voltmeter phobia,
- they will do the job.
-
- He is: Teleadapt
- P.O. Box 169
- Pinner
- Middlesex HAS 5QW
- England
-
- Phone: +44.81.429.0479
-
- He has a range of kits. He offers a Europak for 100 pounds and
- a Netherlands kit for an unspecified sum.
-
- I have never seen his products let alone tested them. But they
- are a solution.
-
- > - is it legal in to connect private modems to the public carrier?
-
- Who cares? Do you seriously believe the modem policde are going
- to come knocking?
-
- > - and, are the European digital dial tones the same as the North
- > American ones?
-
- "Digital dial tones"? Lemme see, rotary dial, that's digital.
- Touch Tone that's analogue. But I spose the question is: "Is TouchTone
- the same in other countries? To all intents and purposes, yes. Yes I
- know the CCITT Spec is different than the Bell spec; don't ask me
- why. What about pulse dial? Well, yes, pretty much the same all over
- the world -- New Zealand and Sweden being exceptions. There is a
- difference in the make break ratio, but a good modem can change this.
-
- Busy tones etc may be different, as are dial tones -- the
- noise you hear when you pick up the phone.
-
-
- Julian Macassey, julian@bongo.info.com N6ARE@K6VE.#SOCAL.CA.USA.NA
- 742 1/2 North Hayworth Avenue Hollywood CA 90046-7142 voice (213) 653-4495
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