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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: netcom.com!puma
- From: puma@netcom.com (Gary Breuckman)
- Subject: Re: Xircom cannot connect to 800 number.
- Message-ID: <pumaDpLIww.35v@netcom.com>
- Organization: organized?? me?
- References: <4kd947$1qo_002@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:02:56 GMT
- Sender: puma@netcom11.netcom.com
-
- In article <4kd947$1qo_002@ix.netcom.com>,
- Richard Hamilton <thepcman@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >
- >Client has a strange problem. He has a Dell P90 Latitude, Windows 95 and a
- >Xircom CEM 28.8 modem/network card. All works fine except when he tries
- >to call his office computer on a 800 number. The office pc is a Pentium,
- >Windows 95, USR Sportster 28.8. When calling the 800 number, the laptop
- >sends a packet, gets a packet back from the office pc, continues to send
- >5 or 6 more packets to the office but never gets another reply back from
- >the office pc and eventually disconnects. The weirdness is that this 800
- >number connects to a jack that is also a local number. Dialing in on the
- >local number works every time. Dialing into the 800 number with other
- >pc's/modems works fine. Also replacing the Xircom with a Megahertz 14.4
- >pc card modem and dialing the 800 number works fine. The Xircom modem
-
-
- I'm assuming that the carrier for the 800 number is not the same as your
- default long-distance carrier. So, depending on what you dial, you are
- taking different paths. You may want to bring this up with your
- 800-carrier and see if they can suggest anything.
-
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