Re: Users are not very mobile with IBM Mwave?

[Alden S Klovdahl <Alden.Klovdahl@anu.edu.au>]

i have used a u.s. modem in france without (too many) problems.  hard part was
getting the intitialization sequence.  best to find someone else with a modem
and look at theirs.

ibm sell DAA's for different telecom systems.  you would remove your internal
U.S. daa, put in (as i recall) a connector that goes to you external telephone
port, then plug in your new external daa to that, and a - is it rj11 - with a 
french adapter to the daa.

i am not sure how configurable these daa's are, relative to an ordinary modem.

regards, al

 Alden S Klovdahl /   alden.klovdahl@anu.edu.au    / fax: +61 62 49 05 25
 Sociology Arts  / Australian National University / Canberra ACT Australia 0200 

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Larry Gushee wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Mikael Bendtsen wrote:
> 
> >      The thing is, they're not very pleased with the built-in Mwave modem 
> >      since they need a new DAA Kit to almost every country. Not only 
> >      because it costs money, it costs time too. These kits can be very hard 
> >      to get, and to get in time. As you understand, it's not that good if 
> >      you get your Japanese DAA Kit the week after you left Japan.
> >      
> 	About a week ago, I posted a query regarding the operability of 
> the internal modem in the TP701 over the French phone system and received a 
> number of replies that made me think that there would be no problem. 
> (This was after dozens of queries made to as many sources).
> 	Now it seems that perhaps the problem was not solved.  Are we 
> talking about the same modem?  
> 	And what on earth is a DAA?  All I know is that it stands for 
> Data Access Arrangement -- an odd name when you think about it.  I know 
> that some of IBM's PCMCIA fax modems have a built in DAA and others 
> external DAA, presumably software of some sort.  I've even been told by 
> some presumably knowledgeable person that it was just the adapter gizmo 
> with the French telephone plug configuration on one end, RJ-11 on the other.
> 	At one time the TP Support rep told me to get in touch with 
> TeleAdapt.  What TeleAdapt will sell you for $50 is the above mentioned 
> adapter (25F in Paris, perhaps less in the US), instructions for manual 
> dialing, some kind of tester (not the ModemSaver which guards against 
> digital lines).
> 	HEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!
> 
> Larry Gushee
> lgushee@uiuc.edu
>  
>