Per Jessen wrote: [snip]
Fiber?? Where does fiber come into the picture? Nobody's mentioned that sofar. I guess you assumed "digital" = "fiber", but that's definitely not correct.
I have no idea what a telco might feed a fiber with - it'c clearly all digital, but what kind of phones do you use with it and do you hook them up? Around here we have only analog or ISDN phones, and both can easily be used with the digital signal coming over the ISDN line.
Here in the US, we have a very large cable infrastructure, and yes...it's pure digital. The modems that Time Warner, or whatever cable company one has furnishes a "modem" that has a normal phone jack on it, along with Ethernet and coaxial for TV. I spent a great deal of time working my way through Time Warner tech. support levels trying to find a way to get a USRobotics Sportster "real" modem to work before calling Time Warner. I wish I'd checked with them before buying the modem. :( Their answer was that the modem is an analog device and it can't work on a digital service. Fred -- "Where's The Birth Certificate?" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org