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Relative to the message below. Good timimg...I just received an iGo
catalog today. Here is its description for the "Road Warrier Modem
Doubler" ...
Connect through office and hotel digital phone lines.
With the Modem Doubler from Road Warrier you can safely connect to digital
lines that would otherwise "fry" the internal circuitry of your modem.
Allowing your modem to dial through a digital phone line makes the Modem
Doubler ideal for sending faxes, e-mails and data transfers from hotels and
offices with PBX systems (found in most hotels and offices). The modem
doubler operates at speeds up to 33.6 kbps and is powered by two included
9V batteries or the AC adapter.
Expands a single jack into two, one for your modem and another for a
phone line.
You can go to iGo.com and request a catalog.
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At 10:38 PM 03/09/2001 -0800, you wrote:
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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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