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From: cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (Christopher E. Piggott)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: crossing phone lines
Message-ID: <832@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 14:48:57 GMT
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Reply-To: cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (Christopher E. Piggott)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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I used to do this all the time, too, because I was too cheap to spring for
the $12 three-way-calling custom feature installation.  (Eventually, when
they had a free hook-up deal on it, I got it - well worth the few dollars a
month for the times I use it).

Anyhow, crossing the lines caused a tremendous buzzing and relatively bad
audio between L1 and L2 (while the guy who is doing the crossing hears and
is heard rather normally).  The interesting thing I wanted to share is that
I tried dialing both lines (in touch tone) at the same time, and found that
one line was consistently faster to connect than the other (i.e. the same
line would always come up ringing, and the other busy, no matter what number
I called, long distance or otherwise).  From that day on, I always used the
faster line when trying to win radio contests.  (Every little bit helps - I
won $30 worth of cheap perfume, but that's it so far).

/Christopher