andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle) (07/05/90)
I need to setup UUCP links to some sites in Australia and New Zealand and would prefer to use Trailblazer modems. Please could somebody tell me if the PTT's allow the Trailblazer (or their own version of it)? Any feedback on comms to/within Australia would be helpful. Also is there an official Australian UNIX user group? If so I would appreciate their e-mail address. Many thanks, --Andy Ingle
root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) (07/07/90)
In article <2537@acorn.co.uk> andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle) writes: >I need to setup UUCP links to some sites in Australia and New Zealand >and would prefer to use Trailblazer modems. Please could somebody tell >me if the PTT's allow the Trailblazer (or their own version of it)? I have been selling Telebit Trailblazer T2500's to a client in Australia since before the first of the year. He uses them to connect to other uucp sites there. So, they are okay to use in Australia. The problem is that they should have 240 volt power supplies. -- USPS: The Consultants' Exchange, PO Box 12100, Santa Ana, CA 92712 TELE: (714) 842-6348: BBS (N81); (714) 842-5851: Xenix guest account (E71) UUCP: conexch Any ACU 2400 17148425851 ogin:-""-ogin:-""-ogin: nuucp UUCP: ...!uunet!spsd!conexch!root || ...!ccicpg!conexch!root
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (07/09/90)
In article <42337@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes: In article <2537@acorn.co.uk> andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle) writes: I need to setup UUCP links to some sites in Australia and New Zealand and would prefer to use Trailblazer modems. Please could somebody tell me if the PTT's allow the Trailblazer (or their own version of it)? I have been selling Telebit Trailblazer T2500's to a client in Australia since before the first of the year. He uses them to connect to other uucp sites there. So, they are okay to use in Australia. The problem is that they should have 240 volt power supplies. You'd better not let Telebit's Australian distributor hear about this. I talked this spring to Telebit's regional representative about possibly becoming a distributor to widely-dispersed international non-profit organizations. He said that they already have distributors in lots of places, with exclusive rights to sell in their territories. Their privileges went along with the responsibilities to secure PTT approval, perform appropriate power supply and telephone interface variant engineering, provide support, etc. Yes, I know lots of folks who have picked up Trailblazers when they were in the States on furlough and carried them back on the field in their luggage, and most of those folks are getting along just fine. And that's hard to resist because (1) they happen to work most of the time and (2) the price discounters can be much more aggressive in the US market. Just be aware: that's not the way it's supposed to work. Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Telebit Inc. other than as a very satisfied customer (and friend of other very satisfied customers in some out-of-the-way places where nothing else does the job) who no longer wants to be an international distributor.
andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle) (07/09/90)
Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm told that a company called NETCOMM provide a PTT-approved version of the Trailblazer, international calls work ok and that there are UNIX User Groups in both Australia and New Zealand. --Andy Ingle