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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: direct connection of two dte devices
Keywords: modem, direct connections
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.004640.25706@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 5 Oct 90 00:46:40 GMT
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Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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wtl@ulysses.att.com (Bill Langin[ftd]) writes:

>     I have two modem's I want to connect directly.
>     Can I just take the modular telephone cord out of the wall and directly
> connect the modems or do I need special cable?

Is what you mean like this ?

	computer <---> modem <----//----> modem <---> computer
				   ^
				   |_ the connection you want.

Well if so, here's a trick which Doreen Pechey(*) showed me:  just use
a telephone T connector and ignore the plug end of it.  If you have such things
in the USA that is :-)  I refer to connectors that allow you to

	telephone 1 ---> T1
			 |----> phone socket
	telephone 2 ---> T2

just plug the modems into the T1 and T2 ends of the connector and ignore the
plug that would go into the phone socket.  No twist is required.  Doreen
uses this trick when giving courses teaching people how to use modems :-)

(*) Doreen doesn't post here, but her husband Bill does sometimes -- Hi Bill,
    say "thanks" to Doreen from me for this trick -- I have been using it
    quite a bit recently :-)

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