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If you are offended by mention of a commercial project, please hit the
delete key and save us both some grief.
There are a lot of school sites where an Internet connection is wanted or
needed, but no network data ports are available in the area. Sometimes,
there is a telephone in the vacinity, but it is a district Digital
telephone. And, do NOT plug an Analog device, like most all Modems, into a
digital phone line unless you want to see smoke, literally.
There are devices out there that convert a signal from Analog to Digital,
just what is needed to connect a normal Analog Modem to a Digital telephone
line. I get a lot of networking catalogs, but "iGo" ("iGo.com") is the
only place that I have actually found one. You can search the Internet for
Analog to Digital converters and maybe find others. I bought one from iGo
for about $100 and got it working today. Now I can connect up some
portables and Gym offices down in the bowels of the PE Building. This is
something that they could possibly use down at the WIAT building, or
whatever it is now called. Here is a link that I followed to get to a
sales place.
http://shopping.altavista.com/merchants.sdc?p=11069420
The device that I bought from iGo is called the "Modem Doubler". They call
it that because it can be used to add another telephone jack where you can
connect a Modem. Say you are a traveling salesman and you need to get onto
your Modem when you are with a customer but there isn't even a telephone
jack in the room and/or there is only a Digital Telephone line.
To setup the "Modem Doubler", you disconnect both ends of the phone's
handset card. Then, you connect the "Modem Doubler" to the phone and the
Handset to the "Modem Doubler". The "Modem Doubler" also has a connector
for a Modem to connect to. So, now you have a Modem connector where none
was there before. I think the name and concept "Modem Doubler" is a bit
bogus but the device does work. And it also allows you to connect an
Analog Modem (they most all are Analog) to a Digital Phone Line, like our
district telephones.
So, anyway, this device does work. It costs about a hundred bucks. And it
allows you to connect a Modem to our district telephone. And, if Bess
blocks your legitimate searches one time too many, well, the district phone
lines do NOT go through Bess (wink). I could have used this when Bess
blocked our Travel and Tourism from going to a STATE DEPARTMENT site! The
US government! On traveling to foreign countries safely. When asked to
unblock this site, Bess said that we weren't signed up for that kind of
service or something like that. Shee.
Opps, it just dawned on me that I should ask our Telephone people if this
is OK. Anyone out there?
-Wes
wfelty@gte.net
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