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- From: ssk_nsm@nyc.pipeline.com (S.S. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Phones w/High "Ringer Equivalence" Cause Problems?
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 05:02:00 -0500
- Organization: The Pipeline
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- I have a Zoom 14.4K modem which has been giving me trouble. Last summer,
- it was killing my phone line sporadically. The line would be dead for up
- to 2-3 hours. I sent the modem back and Zoom presumably repaired the modem
- cells, which it says had been damaged.
-
- Now the problem has revisited me. I called Zoom again and tried to
- diagnose the problem before sending the modem back for repair again.
- Zoom's Tech Support told me that the phone that I've been using may be the
- problem. The phone is an older Code A Phone model with ringer equivalence
- at 1.4B. I was told that I should buy a phone whose ringer equilvalence is
- no higher than .9B. I checked the figure for my newer phone (not connected
- to the modem) and it's 1.0B. Are most phones set at below .9B?
-
- More importantly, does this diagnosis seem plausible? Can older model
- phones damage high-speed modems?
-