Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: cfctech!alexb@sharkey.cc.umich.edu (Alex Beylin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Panasonic Answering Machine Problems Message-ID: Date: 24 Nov 89 07:58:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: alexb@cfctech.UUCP (Alex Beylin) Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI Lines: 34 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 530, message 2 of 11 A few month ago I bought a replacement for my old Panasonic answering machine. I was very happy with the last one, so I bought another Panasonic. This time it is a KX-T1740 with two line capability. A few weeks after connecting it up I noticed that time to time I get a message that consists of a few clicks and nothing else. Then I started getting complaints from people that they leave me messages and I do not call back. Finally I connected the two. Most of the time when someone complains about me ignoring a call, I have gotten a "click-click" message. I returned this machine to the store and got a new one in exchange. Same thing - some messages disappered. It also seems that some people are subject to this phenomena more then others, though it is rare and so hard to duplicate that I would not want to bet on that statment. One day I walked-in just as the machine picked up a call. I heard what sounded like my answering machine flashing the hook and playing with call-waiting. The line is a normal CO line with touch-tone and call-waiting. The switch is 5ESS. Before I go and cancel my call-waiting service or send my machine to Panasonic for more testing, thought I'd bounce this one from telecom readers. Anybody with a similar experience or with Panasonic answering machines on a line with call-waiting? Ideas, suggestions, etc. would be appreciated. Alex Beylin, Unix Systems Admin. | +1 313 948-3386 alexb%cfctech.uucp@mailgw.cc.umich.edu | Chrysler Financial Corp. sharkey!cfctech!alexb | MIS, Distributed Systems ATT Mail ID: attmail!abeylin | Southfield, MI 48034