[ILUG] Irish/US/UK phone cables

[Steven Satelle]

the easiest way is to buy a convertor i.e. english to irish conection you
can buy them in any phone shop, i'd try peats as well. shouldnt be more than
1-2 pounds

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Niall
Sent: 24 April 2000 18:07
To: dollar at skynet.ie
Cc: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Irish/US/UK phone cables


On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:46:53PM +0000, dollar at skynet.ie wrote:

> But there is also differances in how the wires are connected i.e. modem
> cable's from Ireland and the us are not the same even though the look the
> same.

Sorry, but that's wrong. Ireland and the U.S. both put A+B legs on the
middle pairs of the RJ-11 connector.

> Also a UK phone won't ring of the Irish phone system. There's more to it
> that the plug u use ;-p

For some phones that is true - again, that's because B.T. decided that their
way was better than the U.S. way . In their socket, they decouple ringing
current from the phone pair and feed it in on a separate wire. I presume the
canned converters you buy take care of that - me, I just connect up the
appropriate wires.


Regards,

Niall

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