Re: Does a US modem work in Europe?

Previously Alex Schmitz <schmitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> am traveling to Germany for a while and plan on taking my US laptop and US
> PS2 with me. While I have the equipment for the different TV norm and
> electricity, I wonder if the US modem of the laptop/PS2 will work in
> Germany.

> Does Europe have a different modem or telephony standard than the US? Will
> the modem work and I can use dial up in Germany?

The modem will very likely work as long as you have an analog
modem and telephone line. Much of Europe is ISDN and there you
need an Euro-ISDN modem. However often you can connect an analog
modem to an ISDN NT, if it has an A/B adapter (analog->ISDN adapter).
You might get limited speed though.

Arno

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