Advice Needed: isdn line in Germany
I will be taking by S.u.S.E. - laden laptop to Germany and need some advice. I am informed that I will have an isdn line to the apartment where I will be staying. I have two questions: (1) what sort of a connection do I need for an isdn line? A modem plus telephone plug, or an ethernet card plus a network line or ... ? (2) Do I need any special drivers or applications to make the connection work? Thanks -- dj tuchler dtuchler@earthlink.net
On Saturday 18 May 2002 06:17, Dennis J.Tuchler wrote:
I will be taking by S.u.S.E. - laden laptop to Germany and need some advice. I am informed that I will have an isdn line to the apartment where I will be staying. I have two questions: (1) what sort of a connection do I need for an isdn line? A modem plus telephone plug, or an ethernet card plus a network line or ... ? (2) Do I need any special drivers or applications to make the connection work?
Thanks
At the moment I am connected with a standard PCMCIA 28.8 modem, which I plugged into the ISDN box normal telephone line adapter. You WILL need a US to German plug adapter (standard US plug for the modem and a funky-shaped German telco male plug to access the box). In Munich they sell these at every electronics shop for about $5. To access using ISDN (it's about 64KB/s I think) I think you'll need what they call a Fritz card PCMCIA ISDN modem, though I've never tried with just the ethernet. They're sold in Munich for about $50. Seems to me it's not worth the "extra" speed of ISDN. Yast has setup tools to configure the ISDN modem if you go that way. HTH and Hope I'm Not Misleading You! Anyone else know of a cheaper way to access ISDN without the fritz card? Nick in Munich
Hello, though I'm not an expert on Linux, I live in Germany and hope, this helps you: On Sat, 2002-05-18, 10.38 Nick Selby wrote:
On Saturday 18 May 2002 06:17, Dennis J.Tuchler wrote:
I will be taking by S.u.S.E. - laden laptop to Germany and need some advice. I am informed that I will have an isdn line to the apartment where I will be staying. I have two questions: (1) what sort of a connection do I need for an isdn line? A modem plus telephone plug, or an ethernet card plus a network line or ... ? (2) Do I need any special drivers or applications to make the connection work?
At the moment I am connected with a standard PCMCIA 28.8 modem, which I plugged into the ISDN box normal telephone line adapter. You WILL need a US
German ISDN boxes do not necessarily have a normal telephone socket. Some do have one, but it's optional.
to German plug adapter (standard US plug for the modem and a funky-shaped German telco male plug to access the box). In Munich they sell these at every electronics shop for about $5. To access using ISDN (it's about 64KB/s I think) I think you'll need what they call a Fritz card PCMCIA ISDN modem, though I've never tried with just the ethernet. They're sold in Munich for about $50. Seems to me it's not worth the "extra" speed of ISDN.
AFAIK the so-called Fritz!Card PCMCIA costs about 150 to 200 Euro, so it's really quite expensive. There are other products like external ISDN "modems" that connect via USB, but I haven't tried these with linux. There small and not quite as expensive. E.g. Fritz!Card USB 2.0 for 89,- Euro. You could, of course try ebay... Usually, all necessary add-ons like connection cables etc. are included. HTH, Henning
hweier@freenet.de wrote:
Hello,
though I'm not an expert on Linux, I live in Germany and hope, this helps you:
On Sat, 2002-05-18, 10.38 Nick Selby wrote:
On Saturday 18 May 2002 06:17, Dennis J.Tuchler wrote:
I will be taking by S.u.S.E. - laden laptop to Germany and need some advice. I am informed that I will have an isdn line to the apartment where I will be staying. I have two questions: (1) what sort of a connection do I need for an isdn line? A modem plus telephone plug, or an ethernet card plus a network line or ... ? (2) Do I need any special drivers or applications to make the connection work?
This will depend on the isp to an extent. If you get t-online from Deutsche Telecom they often have a special for isdn adapters you can get with the service really cheap. In the short run, you can get a isdn to analog converter if you want to use your existing phone. If you do that you can dial up to your isp with your current modem. That will sacrifice the extra speed but it's okay until you get the isdn modem. Later, you can get either a pcmcia isdn card or you can buy a universal isdn interface box that you can connect your analog phones to as well as your laptop with a serial cable. The serial cable solution will allow you to use the standard 64kb/s connection or the 128kb/s dual channel setup. This is of course dependent on your isp offering the 128kb service. D. Telecom offers it. You need to make sure the box you buy either has drivers for the OS's you want to use or it needs to support AT mode. If it supports AT mode linux will see it as any other external modem. Before you explore those options I suggest you see if cable or dsl are available in your area. They are many times faster and much cheaper to use when you consider phone line (connection) charges which are NOT cheap in Europe. Here, you get NO free local calls. JS
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