Solved: Phone cable on laptop?

General Question: Does the length of a phone cord from the wall to the laptop have any effect on the computer?
Reason: I have a Toshiba 1800 which I ran on a 25ft cord (aprox) and the modem fried in the first week of ocassional use. My retailer replaced the laptop, no problem. I want to make sure that long cord I used on the first laptop will not damage this new one before I hook it up to that long cord again. I'm thinking resistance? Thanks Dave.

 

The length of the cord will have an effect on connection performance, but not on frying your modem.

 

I traveled with several modem devices for years. My standard connection was with a 25 foot cable as the phone jacks in hotels aren’t always convenient to a workplace. Never had a problem. They didn’t have data or reliability problems with the 25 foot cord.

Some hotels have a duplex digital phone system that will fry a modem. You have to check in any large facility before connecting to a phone jack. Most mobile modems will have a warning stating exactly what kind of phone systems you can’t plug into. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact designation to ask about. I know friends carried a simple tester for the purpose.

 

Thanks slipe: I'll certainly check into that. Dave