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From: mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: telecommunications
Keywords: modem, terminal software
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Date: 7 Aug 90 01:40:56 GMT
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Hi Ben...

In article <1749@nyx.UUCP> bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) writes:
>modem, which is owned by a frequent client of mine.  He got it primarily
>so I could send him intermediate results of contract work over the phone,
>and a lot of the time we have trouble just connecting... I have heard his
>modem send tones down the line that no modem should even be able to make!

Where is his modem in relation to his other equipment?  When I added a GVP
hard drive to my 500, I tried setting my Supra modem on top of the drive.
After all, it seemed like a convenient spot.  Apparently the drive's power
supply interfered with the modem's tone detector and/or generator.  It would
only connect about a third of the time, even though the tone sounded fine
to my ears.  Moving the modem away from any source of power solved the
problem (though I do have a digital clock sitting on top of it at the moment).
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