"Peter Parry" <peter@wpp.ltd.uk> wrote in message
news:hadai11kvcl33i500vfjhrp83a4d5d8j3m@4ax.com

[snip]
> Ivor Jones has written that the Fritz connector is
> non-standard and uses pins 1 and 8 for the analogue and a
> hunt around www.dslteam.de shows he is correct. These
> pins are spare on an ISDN connector and Fritz have
> obliviously used them for the analogue connection to
> avoid the need to sense the network type. In this case
> go from 1 and 8 on the Frieze to 2 and 5 on a BT plug
> (the outer pins).

Hmm, now this is where it gets interesting. The cable supplied with my UK
spec. Fritz!Box has an RJ45 (pins 1 and 8) wired directly to a standard BT
plug. The instructions supplied say that this can be plugged directly into
*either* an analogue phone socket *or* an ISDN connection. Now I have
never used ISDN but I have seen photographs of the terminal equipment and
aren't they standard phone sockets..?

Ivor