Dialup on a Broaband modem

Like many people I'm my dad's unpaid IT help desk. I have to fix his
machine tonight.

He's bust his narrowband dialup modem.
Can my unused spare Sagem 800 broadband modem be used for narrowband
dialup?

And no, he won't move to broadband yet - hell, I've tried to convince
him....

Thanks

Charles

Charles Ping wrote in
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> Like many people I'm my dad's unpaid IT help desk. I have to fix his
> machine tonight.
>
> He's bust his narrowband dialup modem.
> Can my unused spare Sagem 800 broadband modem be used for narrowband
> dialup?
>
> And no, he won't move to broadband yet - hell, I've tried to convince
> him....

No I'm afraid that's not possible: a broadband modem will only work with a
broadband-enabled line and won't even try to dial up over the voice
frequencies of the line.

I think you'll need to replace his dial-up modem with another PCI one or
else with an external USB one.

"Charles Ping" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Like many people I'm my dad's unpaid IT help desk. I have to fix his
> machine tonight.
>
> He's bust his narrowband dialup modem.
> Can my unused spare Sagem 800 broadband modem be used for narrowband
> dialup?

NO. Broadband modems are for BB ONLY.

Go on ebay im sure you'll find quite a few dialup modems on there quite
cheep

> Like many people I'm my dad's unpaid IT help desk. I have to fix his
> machine tonight.

> He's bust his narrowband dialup modem.
> Can my unused spare Sagem 800 broadband modem be used for narrowband
> dialup?

Of course not.

> And no, he won't move to broadband yet - hell, I've tried to convince
> him....

Peter Crosland

Martin Underwood wrote:

> Charles Ping wrote in
> (E-Mail Removed) m:
>
> > Like many people I'm my dad's unpaid IT help desk. I have to fix his
> > machine tonight.
> >
> > He's bust his narrowband dialup modem.
> > Can my unused spare Sagem 800 broadband modem be used for narrowband
> > dialup?
> >
> > And no, he won't move to broadband yet - hell, I've tried to convince
> > him....
>
> No I'm afraid that's not possible: a broadband modem will only work with a
> broadband-enabled line and won't even try to dial up over the voice
> frequencies of the line.
>
> I think you'll need to replace his dial-up modem with another PCI one or
> else with an external USB one.


Thanks chaps.
I have a spare usb one so I'll use that.


Charles