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- From: floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Making a RJ11 "busy" plug
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 07:04:47 GMT
- Organization: __________
- Message-ID: <4ij1uf$5dv@news2.cais.com>
- References: <4i4n3j$dgr@baloo.pipex-sa.net> <4ig8vv$gjs@sam.inforamp.net> <4igc1u$kdk@news2.cais.com> <4iiuir$le7@daily-planet.execpc.com>
- Reply-To: floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
- NNTP-Posting-Host: tanana.polarnet.com
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- davel@execpc.com wrote:
- >floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson) wrote:
- >
- >>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.)
- >>
- >
- >I'm pretty sure that we have DMS-100 switches here locally.
- >
- >When I dial my own number, I get a busy signal. Then when I hang up I
- >get a callback with a double ring. Answering give a quiet line (with
- >loop current)
- >
- >According to Ameritech, this is the procedure to use to call one of your
- >own extention phones.
-
- That is reverting call. It appears Ameritech isn't very
- sophisticated about using treatments to give you a meaningful
- message. Lots of telcos default almost everything to fast busy...
-
- Floyd
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- Floyd L. Davidson Salcha, Alaska floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
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