Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 23:31:27 EDT From: Marc Unangst Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Busying Out a Phone With a Resistor? Message-ID: Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, +1 313 665 2832 Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 425, Message 15 of 15 Lines: 13 I recently had one modem in the middle of a 15-line hunt group go out. Not wanting to move the rest of the modems up a line each, I did some investigation with a VOM and a telephone, and discovered that plugging a 270 ohm resistor into the phone line (across tip and ring) should have almost the exact same effect as an off-hook telephone does -- thus busying out the line. Now, my question is, is there anything wrong with doing something like this? Will a 1/2W resistor be enough? Is this an "accepted" way of busying out a phone line? Marc Unangst mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us !hela!mudos!mju