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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Dirty Phone Lines
Keywords: noise filters, dirty phone lines, serial boards
Message-ID: <8269@alice.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 21:12:16 GMT
References: <7304@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: University of Antwerp
Lines: 21

In article <7304@well.UUCP> dave@well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
>
>How can I deal with a chronic problem of very noisy incoming phone lines
>to a system from rural analog phones? Users in rural areas are dialing
>...

There is always the possibility to crank up the signal-level of the modems.
This is illegal of course (the level must not exceed some value), but on the
other hand your users are being charged real money for bad connections,
and they pay just as much as people in areas with better lines.

No flames please about this suggestion. What do you do if you constantly
have bad voice-connections? You start yelling into the phone. Well, what
I suggest is that the modems start yelling. That's all.

Paul.
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