Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!reed!rbrewer From: rbrewer@reed.UUCP (Robert S. Brewer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: comp.dcom.modems Keywords: uk modems email Message-ID: <11218@reed.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 03:44:26 GMT Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 24 My parents are going to be going on sabatical to England soon. They will be taking along a Mac, and they want to communicate with their offspring (me and my brother) via electronic means. So, they will need a modem. However, they need one that will work 'over there'. It would be nice if it worked over here too. When they were over there earlier this year, some guy quoted them $1000 for a 2400 baud (bps, whatever) modem that would work in the UK. This is of course outrageous. So, what protocols are necessary to get a modem to talk at 2400/1200/300 in the UK? Are there any good, cheap modems that they could buy here and take over (my father will be filling out a carnet [<-sp?] so the customs thing will be taken care of)? Or is taking stuff made for dcom in the USA to the UK illegal? The modems we were looking at were the Anchor 2400E and the Practical Peripherals 2400. Both claim to support some CCITT protocols, but are they the right ones? I know very little about digital communications outside the USA, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance... -- Robert S. Brewer Bitnet: rbrewer@reed.BITNET, Usenet: rbrewer@reed.UUCP Freshman, Reed College GEnie : R.BREWER