Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 16:56:28 GMT From: Peter Creath Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pet Peeve About Newer Modems (was Telephone Keypads) Message-ID: Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX 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 432, Message 7 of 7 Lines: 9 Telco's desire for a two-second delay is to give their equipment time to register your line and give you a dial tone. You forgot to mention that the only way a USR (at least that's what it says in MY manual) can skip the delay is to listen for the dial tone and begin dialing as soon (read about 1 or 2 ms) as it hears the dial tone. The difference between ATX5 and ATX6 is that X6 listens for dial tone and gives you the ability to speed dial.