From: Justin Mason (jm at domain netnoteinc.com)
Date: Wed 05 May 1999 - 12:32:24 IST
Liam Bedford said:
> In message <19990505110544.A16240 at domain porterhouse.merrion.nua.net>, Joe Desbonnet
> writes:
> >No - they are different - a little anyway. Often is a matter of just
> >switching wires or getting a 5IRP convertor box. I find it a real pain
> >getting good modems in Ireland. Best go for the US models if you can source
> >them.
> >
> >I wish someone fill me in on the background to this problem. Its some
> >subtle difference between phone standard here (and most of world) vs
> >the UK.
> The wires need to be switched, it's the same when you go to a variety of
> different places, e.g. Germany/Australia/France/UK/Ireland & US all have
> different pinouts, so you need to either get a modem that can adapt its
> signals (Psion Dacom Gold Card is one) or get all the 5 million adapters
> that will do the job.
>
> FWIW Ireland phone -> UK modem is
>
> 1 2 3 4
> | | | |
> \/ \/
> /\ /\
> | | | |
>
> (swap outside pair for the middle pair on opposite ends)
BTW I bought a UK 56k modem recently (Diamond Supra) and had to snip two
of the wires to get it to work; the symptom was that connecting the modem
cable to the modem and the wall socket killed dialtone, whether the modem
was on or not. Obviously bad.
Can't remember the wiring now though, sorry ;) A bit of trial and error
would sort it.
--j.
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