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- From: Steve Wellcome <wellcome@helix.enet.dec.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: USR 14.4 Sportster won't hang up
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:46:12 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Marlboro, MA
- Message-ID: <4dgkok$4pa@mrnews.mro.dec.com>
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- I need a sanity check to be sure I'm not missing something obvious.
- I've got a USR 14.4K sportster (internal). If my pc is off and I
- plug the phone line phone line from the wall and the phone line from
- a telephone into the appropriate sockets in the back of the modem,
- the phone works fine. I can pick up the receiver, get a dial tone,
- etc.
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- The instant I turn on the computer, the dial tone on the telephone
- goes away. The modem appears to grab the telephone line as soon as
- it's turned on.
-
- If I read out the modem registers (ATI4 command), it claims to be
- "on hook." I reset the modem with AT&F1 (I think that's it; whatever
- the factory default reset command is), and the behavior is the same.
-
- I've checked the manual and can't find any setting that would cause
- the modem to behave in this way, but I wonder if I'm missing something
- obvious.
-
- Can anybody who knows more than I do make a definite proclamation,
- "You have a Bad Modem"? Or, "You twit! All you gotta do is...."
-
- Except for this "feature," the modem works fine. If I plug in the
- phone line and then instantly dial a number, I can connect and use
- the modem with no trouble. If I leave the line plugged in when I'm
- not using the modem, however, it eventually times out (on the phone
- company end) and starts squawking.
-
- Please respond to wellcome@helix.enet.dec.com
- Thanks!
-
- P.S. I've tried USR's support email (subject 0000) and got acknowledgement
- that my mail was received...but no answer, after at least a week. Based
- on other notes in this group, I hold out little hope for help from that
- quarter.
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