Re: Bad Modem, Busy Signals, and Hunt groups
Darren K. Bolding (darren@ipa.net)
Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:47:18 -0600 (CST)
In the previous message, Steve Davies said:
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> On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, His Royal Majesty wrote:
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> > The best (and cheapest) method is to get a few of those spare phone cords
> > that they ship with all the modems, cut one in half and twist the red and
> > green together. This is ok, but after a couple of months the telco you
> > use might call you to tell you about the short.
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> ROTFL! Imagine the concept of Telkom South Africa phoning _us_ to report
> a fault!
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> That'll be the day.
> Steve
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The only gotcha here is that some switches will detect this, call it
an *error* and **NOT** restore the line when you remove the short.
This can cause some consternation the first time it happens- you should
probably call the telco. to check what happens.
--D
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