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echo: aust_modem
to: Nick Gibbs
from: David Drummond
date: 1996-11-18 06:15:32
subject: What`s `HST` mean?

Nick, at 20:46 on Nov 13 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

DD>>>> The User's Manual refers to the use of a second telephone 
DD>>>> port on the modem. This port is not available on your 
DD>>>> modem.

FF>>> Mine is and works fine.  This shows that my Courier is 
FF>>> physically different from yours, so I would not  be 
FF>>> subject to these conditions.

RB>>> Could you please verify this David.

BG>> On US/Canada Couriers and Sportsters, the secondary RJ-11 
BG>> phone socket is physically connected, and works as a kind 
BG>> of mode-3 adapter.  However, whilst Austel models have the 
BG>> socket fitted, it is not connected (in accordance with 
BG>> Austel regulations).  If Frank's actually works, somebody 
BG>> at USR has erred.

NG> Are you sure? My Courier also has the second RJ-11 socket 
NG> and it works too.

It appears that it works on the Couriers, but is disabled on the
Sportsters.  It has been totally removed on the Worldport PCMCIA V.34
model.

David
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