Hi,

1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy? 2- What is the
electricity in Italy? I have one of these two leged adapters. Will this work?

Thanks jon

jon <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Hi,
    > 1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy? 2- What is the
    > electricity in Italy? I have one of these two leged adapters. Will this work?

The official phone plug is a massive three pronged one, round. Adapters from RJ-11 to
the plug are cheap and easy to find at any hardware or electrical store or
supermarket. But lately installers have begun to use RJ-11 also on wall sockets.

Often the phone will have a connection cable beginning with the three plonged plug
and ending in a RJ connector in the body of the phone. In this case you simply
disconnect the cable from the phone and connect it to modem, without even buying
the adapter.

Electricity is 220 AC, 50 hz. Probably the two pronged connector will work, but this
cannot be said; there are a variety of connectors and plugs. Anyway, adapters are
cheap and plenty.



-- ----------------------------------------------------- Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy
e-mail: [email protected]

In article <[email protected] >, [email protected]
(jon) wrote:

    > Hi,
    > 1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy? 2- What is the
    > electricity in Italy? I have one of these two leged adapters. Will this work?

Just as an aside to this -- I've found that in quite a few (not all) hotels in Italy,
the dial tone is the same intermittent tone that modems take to mean "engaged".

You can usually achieve a complicated workaround by beginning the dial process from
the phone handset, then switching to the laptop halfway through -- trial and error is
the only way to figure it, really.

But I have heard that there is a Hayes code you can insert into the laptop's dialling
sequence telling it to ignore the tone, allowing you to dial even when it would
otherwise consider the line engaged.

If anyoone on r.t.e. knows what this is and cares to share it, I'm sure many Italian
travellers will be appreciative!

220V, and a two pin adapter should work, if it has round pins about an inch apart.

<[email protected]> wrote:


    > But I have heard that there is a Hayes code you can insert into the laptop's
    > dialling sequence telling it to ignore the tone, allowing you to dial even when it
    > would otherwise consider the line engaged.
    > If anyoone on r.t.e. knows what this is and cares to share it, I'm sure many
    > Italian travellers will be appreciative!

I don't remember the Hayes code - maybe something like ATX3, but it is a lot of time
I don't use Hayes codes anymore. As a Mac user, I suggest fellow Applers to run a
simple system utility ("Modem country selector" or so, it depends on the national OS
you have) before using the modem in a foreign country. Also in the modem control
panel there is a checkbox for ignoring line tones.


-- ----------------------------------------------------- Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy
e-mail: [email protected]

In article <[email protected] >, [email protected]
(jon) writes:

    >1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy?

I have had trouble in Italy because my modem does not recognize the dial tones in
hotels. More recently, in other countries, I have been able to dial manually for an
outside line and then the modem works OK. I did not try this in Italy.

To do this (assuming the telephone has a standard jack -- not all do, or you may have
to take off the base plate to get at it), you need a Y-connector and sometimes a
length of telephone cord and a dual-female connector, for cases where the Y-connector
does not fit properly into the telephone's connection. You plug your telephone cord
into the telephone and one part of the Y-connector, the hotel line into the other
part of the Y-connector and the base of the Y into the dual-female connector. Your
modem cord goes into that.

    >2- What is the electricity in Italy? I have one of these two legged adapters. Will
    >this work?

240 volts, 50 cycles. The Italian plugs have two round posts but, as I recall,
they are narrower than the International standard, so you may have to buy a
connector in Italy.

Larry at Morro Bay, California

On 24 Aug 2002 16:14:17 GMT, [email protected] (Larry) wrote:

    >In article <[email protected] >, [email protected]
    >(jon) writes:
    >>1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy?
    >I have had trouble in Italy because my modem does not recognize the dial tones
    >in hotels.

Add X3 to your modem command so that your modem won't listen for a dial tone. In
Windows, you can do this by selecting your modem, then Properties | Connection |
Advanced | Extra settings.

On 23 Aug 2002 21:35:16 -0700, [email protected] (jon) wrote:

    >Hi,
    >1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy? 2- What is the
    >electricity in Italy? I have one of these two leged adapters. Will this work?

Talk to the people at magellans
(www.magellans.com), they're good at this and
have all the supplies you need.
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jon wrote:
    > Hi,
    > 1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy?

Depends on where you are staying... I have seen old and new jacks there. An old
place may not bother with changing the outlets.

    > 2- What is the electricity in Italy? I have one of these two leged adapters. Will
    > this work?

Yep.. the round two plug adapter common in most of Europe.

[email protected] schrieb:
    > In article <[email protected] >, [email protected]
    > (jon) wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > 1- can I use my regular RJ-11 or use telephone line plug in Italy? 2- What is the
    > > electricity in Italy? I have one of these two leged adapters. Will this work?
    > Just as an aside to this -- I've found that in quite a few (not all) hotels in
    > Italy, the dial tone is the same intermittent tone that modems take to mean
    > "engaged".
    > You can usually achieve a complicated workaround by beginning the dial process from
    > the phone handset, then switching to the laptop halfway through -- trial and error
    > is the only way to figure it, really.
    > But I have heard that there is a Hayes code you can insert into the laptop's
    > dialling sequence telling it to ignore the tone, allowing you to dial even when it
    > would otherwise consider the line engaged.
    > If anyoone on r.t.e. knows what this is and cares to share it, I'm sure many
    > Italian travellers will be appreciative!

If you're talking about MS Windows,there's a check box under Control Panel - modems
- properties - settings, says something like "wait for dial tone". Uncheck the box.
Depending on your Windows flavour, the exact location may vary. BTW this is applies
for many non US countries. Don't forget as well you will most likely have to dial
some prefix to get out of the room, but that's the same as phoning.

Tom
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