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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: The Dial Tone Continues As My Modem Dials - What's Going On?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 11:17:26 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <4dg1g6$3q4@shellx.best.com>
- References: <1996Jan15.191154.111954@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In article <1996Jan15.191154.111954@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>,
- Stefan@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu says...
- >
- >I am helping a friend with a Packard Bell 486 and an internal
- >28,8 internal modem. The modem checks out fine on two
- >different hardware testing programs, but whenever we try to
- >make a connection, the modem dials and the dial tone continues.
- > Needless to say, the result is NO CARRIER. Can anyone please
- >give me any clues to what our problem might be - or direct me
- >to someplace where this problem has been discussed?
- >
- >Thanks. Julie Bergstrom bergstr@lark.cc.ukans.edu
- >
-
- the modem is either:
-
- dialing on a pulse only phone line, switch to atdp instead
-
- dialing to fast for the phone network? (set ats11 to a slightly
- higher value like 55 or 75)
-
-
- slight chance of not enough voltage on phone line or ac/dc adapter??
-
- thats all i can think of.
-
-