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From: weaver@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Weaver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: modem connections
Message-ID: <15195@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 88 20:11:44 GMT
References: <8806061433.AA02931@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: OSU College of Business...where the fun starts
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In article <8806061433.AA02931@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> SHAFFERJ@BKNLVMS.BITNET ("Jim Shaffer, Jr.") writes:
>Can anyone tell me if it's OK to plug a modem into the handset cord on a
>telephone? 

Only if the modem specifically wants it that way.  Usually modems (like the
Atari 1030, XM301 and SX212 and nearly all Hayes-compatible modems) want a
line-in from the modular plug (RJ-11) that you are familiar with from home,
perhaps.  Dire circumstances may await your modem if it wants a line-in.
Some older modems worked via the handset cord (in a way similar to the old
acoustic couplers) but most simply want the line-in.

>I'm asking this because the modular phone in my new dorm room is
>hard-wired into the wall. Arrrghhhh. (No, I can't ask them to re-wire it.
>You're not supposed to have computers on the phone line in a multi-occupant
>room.

True, but you can go ahead and wire in a modular plug anyway--if you are
willing to accept the consequences of the dorm staff finding out and/or
the telco.  Actually, depending upon what phone you have, you can install/
deinstall your contraband modular plug without them knowing about it!

If you are interested further, drop me a line describing the phone you
have and the particular installation of the phone.

>Everybody does it anyhow, at least in the dorms with jacks instead
>of hardwired phones. Arrrghhhh, again!)

I did, but then OSU installed phones with extra modular jacks :-)

DISCLAIMER:  My views represent me and not those of OSU, the OSU Residence
and Dining Halls nor the OSU College of Business; nor the views of any of
the Communist governments of the Warsaw Pact.  (Which are similar to all the
above.)


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