Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!astemgw!kuis!aegis!davidg From: davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Using US modems in Japan Keywords: modems, Japan, help Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 00:55:41 GMT References: <2949@beguine.UUCP> Organization: Aegis Society Lines: 35 Richard.Milward@samba.acs.unc.edu (Richard Milward) writes: > Someone in the computer center here wants to know if he'll have > any problems using a US-made modem in Japan. Other than possible > power-line differences, what are the gotchas? > --Richard Milward / network tech / UNC-CH > Networking Systems office / 919-962-0002 What US-made modem? One thing for sure, it should be able to handle CCITT answer tones as well as Bell. Another thing to consider is whether it is in the Tokyo area (100 V 50 Hz) or the Kyoto-Osaka area (100 V 60 Hz). For what it's worth, I'm running a Telebit Trailblazer T2500 and a USRobotics Dual Standard with 100 V 60 Hz power without any problem. Another consideration is service: my experience has been that modems are the weakest part of the system and have replace/upgraded quite a few. If you only need up up 2400 BPS MNP 5 I would suggest the OMRON MD24FS5. Goes out the door for 40,000 yen (about US$300) and works well. OMRON also makes a 9600 BPS V.32 model but it goes out the door for about 150,000 yen; expensive but not as much as the T2500, which go for 300,000 yen here in Japan... Hope that helps, --Dave McLane ==== The Aegis Society ============================================= Minami Hirao 1-6, Imazato The content and process of Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu, 617 Japan international/cultural Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087 communication. ====================================================================