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- From: john@mlh.com (John Shalamskas)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: ++++WEIRD HAPPENING!!!!
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:09:41 GMT
- Organization: MLH Consulting
- Message-ID: <4i929v$8f3@malasada.lava.net>
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- tbordia@freenet.scri.fsu.edu (Luis Montenegro) wrote:
-
- >Hello. Could someone help me understand WHY while I'm connected to my
- >Internet provider I receive regular phone calls? I mean, I'm connected
- >to my provider when suddenly my phone rings. I answer it. I talk to
- >the person who's calling but then I'm disconnected. This has happened
- >several times.
- >I only have ONE phone line with NO waiting call or any other
- >service.(It's a plain phone line)
- >I have WIN 3.1 and USRoboticts (internal) 14.4 V.32 bis with V.42 bis.
- >Winsock 2.0b.
- >I talked to the telephone people and they don't know why that's
- >happening. They've checked that I have a plain phone line. I'm really
- >puzzeled about this one because if I'm connected to my provider then my
- >phone should ring busy to any one that calls me, right?
-
- Maybe you _do_ have call waiting.
-
- Another possibility is that your local office reverses the polarity on
- your line (or does something else to disturb the line characteristics)
- whenever an incoming call occurs, which the modem senses, which knocks
- it offline.
-
- Or maybe you get a lot of calls and they just happen when the modem
- crashes :-).
-
- John
-
-
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