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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:11:48 +0900

Analog or Digital phone, a burning question

Hi,

I am in a hotel in Fiji at the moment, and accessing the Internet is very
difficult.

I have to bother the hotel staff and use their facilities (their line
works, but their machine is not configured correctly, so they can't access
the Internet, but I can).  The best connection I can get is 19,200 as well.

Anyway, I am trying to figure out what type of PABX they have here based on
the phone.

In the past, when I have plugged a PCMCIA modem into a Digital PABX line, I
have blown the modem up.  The one I now have seems to be more robust that
the previous ones I had, and it has survived being plugged into an Ericsson
digital  PABX, but the hotel has an NEC, and I don't want to take the chance.

So, does anyone know what type of phone the following is:

  NEC ETE-1-2(A)

It was manufactured in Taiwan in 1992, and only has two wires coming into
it.  They look like tip and ring.

Is it an analog or a digital phone?  Will I be able to dial out through the
PABX? The PABX is probably a NEAX of some sort.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course

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