Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: INFO-MODEMS Digest V91 #103
Message-ID: <7039.27E1A684@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 19:28:21 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

 >From: WILLIAMS@GAMMA.IS.TCU.EDU

 >Occasionally, about a half second after it goes on-hook, I 
 >get a RING result back from the modem.

 >I tried it on another line.  No more problem.  But I would
 >hate to have to call everyone I know and tell them I'm changing
 >my number, so I've called Southwestern Bell and reported trouble.

   Bad move, at least around here.  Bell Canada doesn't charge for service 
calls if they find anything wrong with their lines, but they do charge you if 
they don't, or if they find the problem is in customer-owned equipment.

   I think you'll find that the problem is *not* your line, but rather other 
equipment on your line, probably a cheap phone or something like that.

   Remove everything - even unattached cables - from every socket on that 
phone line.  See if your modem barfs if it's the *only* thing on the line.
 
 

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