[G4] Fried Modem

[Gregory Cortelyou]

Yesterday somebody posted on this topic about a modem update. That 
seemed like a great suggestion but I lost the email (another story). 
Could whoever sent that send it again please? Send it offlist if you 
want. Thanks. Sorry all about the OT.
Greg

On Jul 12, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> Gregory Cortelyou <chefgreg at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> This is slightly OT as it concerns a G3 iMac which happens to belong 
>> to
>> my Mom. To be more specific, it's a Blueberry 350 iMac. There is great
>> wisdom on this list and I need some help. Recently the telephone
>> company that serves my mother's area had some sort of major surge run
>> through the phone lines. It was reported in the news and she knew her
>> home was affected because her cordless phone/answering machine started
>> making noise right at the moment. Anyway, she cannot connect to the
>> internet via her dialup ISP. She gets a message saying there is no
>> dialtone. This is not true, because dialtone is all you get. I was
>> there yesterday and tried everything I could think of in 10.2 and in 
>> OS
>> 9. If you set it to ignore the dialtone you get it to dial out but you
>> hear strange tones, not the normal ones and it never connects. I
>> believe her internal modem is "fried". Does anybody know if this is
>> easy to replace in this model? Or what are the options for an external
>> modem for a machine like hers.
>
> First:  Call the phone company.  It should pay.
> Second:  It should be less expensive to buy an external modem for a USB
> port.  Small Dog Electronics, one of the sponsors of this list, should 
> be
> able to fix you up.
>
> -- 
> Al Poulin
> Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
> proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
>