Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!i2unix!inria!irisa!boissier From: boissier@irisa.irisa.fr (franck boissiere,externes ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: RJ11 ==> French phone jack adapter Message-ID: <1990Sep13.070806.8293@irisa.fr> Date: 13 Sep 90 07:08:06 GMT References: <10148@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@irisa.fr Organization: IRISA, Rennes (FR) Lines: 35 Originator: boissier@irisa.irisa.fr From article <10148@goofy.Apple.COM>, by alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg): > In article <343@siodo.UCSD.EDU> laver@siodo.UCSD.EDU (Mick Laver) writes: >> My boss is taking a MacPortable with a FAX/Data modem to Nice in a few >> weeks. I've been trying to find a source for an adapter to allow him to >> use a RJ11 plug with a French phone jack (I'm just assuming I'll need >> one, and I can't really send him with wire strippers and a soldering >> gun.) I'm not having any luck with sources like the French consulate >> or travel agencies. Can anyone point me to a US source for such an >> adapter ... or at least in the right direction? >> >> Thanks much. >> >> Mick Laver >> mlaver@ucsd.edu > > The reason you can't find one is because the phone systems are entirely > different. As far as I recall (from the days I worked on Apple's Portable > Modem 2400), Japan, Canada, and the US are similar, everybody else is > different from that. You'd need a French modem. Apple makes a Portable > Modem 2400 for foreign countries that takes an intelligent adaptor > specific to the country. You might want to buy one over there, especially > if they do make a US adaptor. > Not exactly true. The basic telephony functions are the same, eg DTMF dialing ringing voltage, not the dial tones. Thus you may with the correct wiring, phone, send and receive faxes, but if you want to talk to a modem (eg dial in a computer) you ought to make sure that both ends understand each other. So if you want to call US, Japan or Canada with your device that's fine but you won't be able to get connection with a French installed modem. -- Franck BOISSIERE boissier@irisa.irisa.fr Prototyping Lab Manager boissier@ccettix.UUCP C.C.E.T.T. B.P. 59 boissier%irisa.irisa.fr@uunet.uu.net 35512 CESSON SEVIGNE CEDEX FRANCE