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- From: dmcash@facstaff.wisc.edu (Dan Cash)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: ++++WEIRD HAPPENING!!!!
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:49:02 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
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- john@mlh.com (John Shalamskas) wrote:
-
- >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.]
- <HACK>
- 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
-
- This has happened to me, even after I disable call waiting. I suspect
- that the connection has terminated for whatever reason, and the call
- just happens to come through at the right time. I get no warning when
- the connection fails, I have to check mail or something like that to
- find out if I'm still on. If you're right in the middle of a download
- when it happens, though, I don't know what to tell ya. Maybe just
- knowing you're not the only one will help, eh? :->
-
- dc
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