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- From: smisko@lf.hp.com (Dan Smisko)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR mystery msg
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 23:18:17 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Little Falls Site
- Message-ID: <4eu63p$6i1@hpavua.lf.hp.com>
- References: <1996Feb1.174138.16265@nicad3.nic.bc.ca>
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- Syd Lapan (syd@sparc.nic.bc.ca) wrote:
- : Hello,
-
- : I have a USR Sportster 28.8 internal. ati4 gives me dial=pulse.
- : att then changes the setting to dial=hunt. Can anybody tell me
- : what this means?
-
- Well, I have an older Courier V.32bis. What it means on mine is that
- if you use (for example) ATD5551212 the modem will listen for a dial
- tone break after the first digit. If it still hears a dial tone after
- the 1st digit, it assumes that it's connected to a switch that doesn't
- understand tone dialing, and will dial the number with pulse dialing.
- It doesn't matter if you've set the default to tone dialing with ATT.
-
- This caused me much grief at work trying to do a dialback. After
- dialing 9 for an outside line, the PBX gives another dial tone
- immediately. The modem saw this and proceeded to do pulse dialing,
- which the PBX couldn't deal with. The dialback failed. After
- re-re-re-reading the manual, I used ATDT to force tone dialing. A
- simple solution to a aggravating and obscure problem.
-
- Dan Smisko
-