[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/18/01 9:58 AM wrote:
>> The low stadard RJ11 mounted modems work in all countries I have been in
>> (dare I say it also did in UK and Australia when tried), but the dongled
>> version is the approved and authorised connector which is required in
>> countries such as the UK. In Australia the entire machine can legally be
>> confiscated if non approved connections are made (the tests are for safety
>> of the workers on PSTN networks, and requires stringent tests to ensure no
>> high voltages or intermittents can be transmitted from the modem down the
>> PSTN line)
>
> I chuckled when I read this! Those standards date back pre-war (WWII) due
> to the possibility of damage/line hold-down with old cross-bar switches.
> When SS switches came around, the first ones were a bit more fragile than
> today, so the regs stayed. Remember when you could only use a Bell phone on
> telephone lines in the US? Today's standards changed due to phone switch
> circuit protection taking exponential leaps up; the old standards are
> basically anachronisms which are long due for being dustbinned (canned for
> the Americans on the list) and which only exist to maintain a feeling of
> "sovereignty" over state-run enterprises in some countries (NOT ALL). I'm up
> to 60 countries, used a "low standard" modem w/o problems (even in Germany)
> and only have problems with the physical connections (take an RJ11 cable,
> chop off other end, add alligator clips.... presto, a multi-country 'phone
> connector!).
>
In the statement above:
"the tests are for safety of the workers on PSTN networks, and requires
stringent tests to ensure no high voltages or intermittents can be
transmitted from the modem down the PSTN line"
Are they saying that the unapproved modem could injure or kill someone?!?!
-makmac
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