on 1/8/03 7:14 PM, victor_at_newtontalk.net at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
> I believe that most places in Europe use the same voltages in their phone
> lines, but they don't use a solid dialtone. So if you disable dialtone
> detection on the modem (there's an AT command to do this) it should work
> fine. Note that there are other regulations and such you might have to
> follow. A long time ago I gave someone in Europe my old 9600bps modem
> (I had upgraded to a 14.4) and they used it just by making this change.
> That was in Yugoslavia.
I use both US phones and modems here in Krakow. I think the big difference
is that Europe uses different wires for the phone. You may have to rewire
wall boxes to get a dial tone, but I've never needed to disable dial tones
(until we got voice mail).
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