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At 11:32 AM 2/22/99 -0800, Phil Lane wrote:
>At 11:13 AM 2/22/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Important factor is the type of phone connection the motel/hotel has.
>>Modem needs to be compatible on a PSTN public-switched telephone network.
>>PBX, private branch exchanges won't work nor will other type of digital
>>telephone extensions lines per the IBM ThinkPad manual.
>>
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>Now that I think about it I have had problems sometimes in the past with
>the internal phone systems... I seem to recall everything was fixable in
>the end. It was necessary to reduce the connection speed. Also had to enter
>some extra numbers in the dialing string to "dail 9 for an outside line"
etc..
>
>I think basically if the phone system can support an intelligible voice it
>can also work with digital signals as long as the bandwith is limited
>sufficiently. I mean from the electronics standpoint it's all the same. But
>I'm not the definitive authority on this...
>
Thomas,
Hotel phone-calls can be very expensive! In December I spent
$1,900 in a two-week period on long-distance phone & Internet
calls from a hotel in Mexico.
Next time I'll set up an account with an ISP in Mexico. I have
the same problem in Canada/Europe, better to find a local ISP.
It's worth mentioning this in your magazine article.
-Neal.
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