At 7:02 PM -0400 06/20/2003, Bryce Lee wrote: >Have run into a minor problem. > >I normally use a dialup connection, the line is exclusively for computer use; >none of these filters on the line only for me. > >Works fine. > >Now every once in a while I happen to be in my mother's house. >And sometimes the iBook is with me, sometimes not. > >So can I use her phone line to dial my internet connection? Nope, doesn't >let me.
Why not? >She still has a rotary phone line, she has no need for a touch-tone system. >'Sides as she says "why pay the buggers at Bell C$3.50 a month extra for >a touch-tone system, I don't need it?" Smart lady >Admittedly, she has quite a collection of rotary phones; one upstairs in >the master bedroom, one yellow >wall phone downstairs in the kitchen. Up until last year the upstairs >connection was a two inch square >box with pins i n the corners, it's now one of the smaller pin jobbies, >the kitchen phone is hard-wired. >And she has used my mobile phone, the buttons are not what she is used >to; that said I pick up old rotary >dial phones at garage sales, to keep her in phones. Hers keep dying... > >So how do I connect to the internet, sympatico in this case? Tell your computer to do pulse, rather than tone, dialing. You didn't say which OS but it is fairly easy in either X, or pre-X >Using this old system, or is Steve Jobs not into older phone systems? > >Wonder how a computer would work on one of those party line phones which >would be >two shorts three long one short kind of ringers? As long as you aren't answering for incoming faxes or ARA, the only issue is where to connect the crank for dialing out, I use a synthesizer Regards, James _________________________________________________________________ Sedgwick & Son Information System Specialists & Proud Canadians -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Educational discounts are now available Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
