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- From: floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Making a RJ11 "busy" plug
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 06:38:54 GMT
- Organization: __________
- Message-ID: <4igc1u$kdk@news2.cais.com>
- References: <4i4n3j$dgr@baloo.pipex-sa.net> <4iabts$nn9@raffles.technet.sg> <4iag3c$qam@icefog.polarnet.com> <4ig8vv$gjs@sam.inforamp.net>
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-
- crs0794@inforamp.net wrote:
- >In article <4iag3c$qam@icefog.polarnet.com>,
- > floyd@icefog.polarnet.com (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
- >>Zero ohm resistors are best (22-26 guage frame jumper wire).
- >
- >Doesn't this drain a _lot_ of current from the CO?
-
- No, just about the same current that is drawn when you pick up the
- phone and have it off hook. The sum total of all resistance in
- the loop is always going to be much more than the dc resistance of
- your telephone, so exactly how much it is is irrelavent.
-
- Loop current is "current limited" at the switch anyway. On a
- short loop the maximum current will be the same as having your
- phone off hook.
-
- In your other post about "the telephone company" saying that
- calling your own number and letting it buzz busy being a way to
- busy out a line is simply incorrect. There certainly might be
- individual CO switches where that will work, but in general it
- will not. Often as not what will happen is you get a reverting
- call message explaining how to call numbers on your own line!
- (That is what a Nortel DMS switch will do.)
-
- Even in the cases where it will work I am very hard pressed to
- determine how it will tie up less equipment than a dead short. In
- any case, dead short, a telephone off hook with dial tone, or a
- telephone off hook with a busy signal, the result will eventually
- be identical! After a timeout with your line tied to a treatment
- for a busy line (giving you the buzz buzz) or a timeout providing
- you dial tone, the switch will determine that your line has a
- "Permanent Signal" condition, and take it out of service. In the
- process the line most likely will be attached to two other
- "treatments", the fast busy at least, and maybe some kind of
- a "howler". Then it will go dead.
-
- That status will remain until a regular audit process determines
- that it has changed, and then your line will be restored. The
- audit process might take several minutes to get around to checking
- your line, so it might or might not be returned to service the
- instant you cause it to be on hook again. In any case it won't
- take too long though. (The terminology that I'm using applies to
- the way Nortel describes actions in a DMS system, and may vary
- slightly for other switching systems, e.g. an "audit" might have
- a different name in a 5ESS switch from AT&T.)
-
- For those who question the technical aspects of busy lines on
- telephone systems, I would encourage them to hop on over to
- comp.dcom.telecom.tech and ask whatever questions are necessary
- there. This subject comes up every few months, so be careful to
- _ask_ what is correct rather than try telling everyone what you
- _think_ might be right.
-
- Floyd
- AT&T Alascom
-
-
- --
- Floyd L. Davidson Salcha, Alaska floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
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