From: Alexander Wagner (A.Wagner_at_Bigfoot.de)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 16:49:01 EDT
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:14:43 -1000, David Ross wrote:
Hi!
>This is correct; few other coutries use the RJ-11 (I was recently delighted
to find that
>Italy has switched over, and my machine worked a treat in my wife's family
flat in Rome).
>At one time I had a bookmark for a nifty gadget that could do quite a few
phone plug styles
>all in one small unit, but it seems to be gone now:-(
TAE is the correct cabeling for germany. Thats from our old phone monopol hold
by Telekom. :-( But the cables have correct plugs to connect to normal modems.
You need the N-type, that's important. The F-type is for phones only. (Don't
want to go into details about that.)
>There are other considerations - dial tones and rings are different, so you
might have to monkey with
>your modem settings to ignore these.
Maybe it's a good idea to place an ATX4 somewhere in the modems initialization
to keep it form waiting for a dialtone. You're right, that might be a really
good idea. Dialtones itself are no probelm, at least my MWave-Modem from the
US works perfectly without any modifications. I simply have to set it to the
US style.
>(I use an 'international' modem, so have not had to worry about
>this.) Many German phone lines send regular pulses through the line as part
of the billing process; these can screw up some modems
>(almost surely your H&A, alas).
There's a trick to deal with that. Normal german phone connectors have 3
plugs. The layout is N-F-N so you can connect e. g. a Fax-Phone-Modem or
something like that. If you've problems with the pulses it's normally enought
to place a counter for them to the first N-plug.
BUT: for the usage Esmail want to use his modem he'll not have to worry about
that at all. If you use internet by call services here in germany they're not
>from german Telekom, they're from private companies like Mannesmann or
Mobilcom (the two I suggested to him in private mail). These companies don't
send the pulses. That is they'd like to send them, but german Telekom filters
them out. German Telekom does some quite strange things before they lost the
monopol and even after that... You don't have to understand it, nobody does
it. ;)
>If you're going for professional reasons (e.g., a conference) then it might
be easiest to just get the
>conference organizers to set you up with telnet access.
Good idea. Additionally as Esmail told us that he's working on his
dissertation, he may have access to the network of some university in Hamburg.
Simply ask them if that is possible.
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