Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Logistics of Setting up a Modem Hunt Group Message-ID: <14273@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 3 Nov 90 01:34:21 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: James Deibele Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 785, Message 5 of 6 I would like to set up a sequence whereby someone calling number X would start at the top of a group of phone lines. These would be given out to 2400 baud callers. Number Y would be given out to people who wanted to use Telebits, and would be part of that same sequence. (So people with 2400 baud modems would fill up the 2400 baud modems before falling through to the Telebits.) This seems reasonable to me. However, experimenting with my current hunt group, it seems that if I call any other number besides X, I will get a busy signal or a ring for that one line only --- in other words, if I call X+1 and it's busy, I will not get X+2. Is this a reasonable conclusion, or have I somehow made a mistake while testing? (I've done testing where I could see the modems as I was dialing, to see if they were all really busy.) I have GTE phone service, but I'm afraid I don't know what the local switching equipment is. It seems as those there can be only one "magic number" on a hunt group, but I'd really like to be told I'm wrong ... jamesd@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}!techbook!jamesd Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 "Sitting on the console all day, watching the news scroll away ..."