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- From: nuge@ct.med.ge.com (James A. Nugent)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: The Dial Tone Continues As My Modem Dials - What's Going On?
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:49:06 GMT
- Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI
- Message-ID: <NUGE.96Jan17124906@newport.ct.med.ge.com>
- References: <1996Jan15.191154.111954@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In-reply-to: Stefan Bergstrom's message of 15 Jan 96 19:11:53 CST
-
- In article <1996Jan15.191154.111954@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Stefan
- Bergstrom <Stefan@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> writes:
-
- > 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?
-
- Assuming you are tone dialing (and the line supports it), failure to
- break dial tone generally means that the telephone "tip" and "ring"
- (green and red usually) wires are reversed somewhere.
-
- I'd try reversing the wires in the jack if it's easy to do. Does an
- ordinary phone work OK in that jack? All older and many newer phones
- won't break dial tone either if polarity is reversed.
-
- The final authority on polarity would be one of those radio shack
- phone line testers, (I think they're under $10 maybe 20) but it would
- probably be easier to just try reversing the connections and see what
- happens.
-
- You could have a mis-wired modem, but I doubt that because the RJ-11
- jack is probably directly mounted on the PC board, hard to screw
- up. But who knows?
-
- Also pulse dialing will probably work anyway as a workaround.
-
- I'd be curious to hear if the polarity was your problem.
-
- If you want some real experts to comment on your problem try
- comp.dcom.telecom.
- --
- Jim Nugent
-
- nuge@ct.med.ge.com
-
- nugentj@ct.med.ge.com
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