Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: ch%maths.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Charles Bryant) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Make/break ratios Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 89 21:02:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Charles Bryant Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 134, message 4 of 10 In article e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (e118 student) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 122, message 4 of 7 >The make/break ratios in the US and UK are different, but the ratio >isn't terribly critical (at least in US). I discovered some years ago >that I can dial by clicking the switchhook rapidly. One time I even >dialed 9-1-214-233-2768 successfully by this method. Obviously my >fingers weren't carefully figuring out whether I was using a 39/61 >ratio or 33/67, so I suspect there is a high tolerance in the system >for slop. The ratio can be wildly wrong and stil work. I once tested a modem that had the make and break reversed and it still worked fine. -- Charles Bryant. Working at Datacode Electronics Ltd. (Modem manufacturers)