>> JP> What makes it different from any other cable which 
>> JP> was produced in Australia and has Austel approval?  

DH>> As far as I know, no other manufacturer has ever used 
DH>> the cable plug end as a mounting point for components 
DH>> to finish off the AC characteristics of the modem it 
DH>> was designed for.  

TR> If this is the case I recall, it was a modem which Netcomm itself had 
TR> self-certified. Either AUSTEL checked it or Netcomm subsequently discovered 
TR> that it was not compliant.  Netcomm then sent all existing registered 
TR> owners a new cable which included the fix in the cable plug to achieve 
TR> AUSTEL compliance, along with a warning note that you *had* to use *only* 
TR> the supplied cable. Presumably their remaining warehouse stock was also 
TR> retrofitted.  

That's the one.  Self-Certified == "We built it from imported parts,
so it HAS  to be right, OK?  Ship it!"  I wonder what the barefoot
return ratio was?

"Laboratory" and "Lavatory" are different - reckon we
oughta tell 'em?

  Dave Hatch

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