Re: [ILUG] Re:Subject: [ILUG] Dell & Modems

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain doozer.dublin.wbtsystems.com)
Date: Wed 05 May 1999 - 14:30:42 IST


In message <199905051132.MAA25896 at domain charon.netnoteinc.com>, Justin Mason writes:

>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.
Internal? I came across one I sold my father that did the same thing, reported
error if you had 4 wires in, no dialtone with the crossover, and worked
when I tried the middle pair only out of frustration...

Regards
l.

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Liam Bedford		System Administrator
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Block 2, Harcourt St, Dublin 2


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