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- From: tpang@sfu.ca (Tsui Ting Debbie Pang)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Apartment Callbox Ties in With Telco Line Annoyance?
- Message-ID: <telecom12.858.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:15:14 GMT
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 858, Message 1 of 13
-
- I live in an apartment complex which uses a callbox at the front door
- and it rings thru on my phone line (primary line). But there are some
- times when it has problems:
-
- 1. When I am using modem, disable call-waiting won't work if someone
- rings my call box, since I can't disable their stupid tie-in to the
- PBX. Luckily it doesn't happen much in my case.
-
- 2. When I am on a phone call, and someone rings my call box, I could
- 'flash' to the call box, and open the gate/door, but can't flash back.
- The other side was hung up when I flash to the call box!
-
- Is there any way for the apartment management to improve the hardware
- of the PBX to make it nicer?
-
- Call-waiting is called call-alert in B.C., which took me a while to
- get used to, having used to the term call-waiting when living in
- California. Also they charge CDN$0.75 extra per month for cancel-
- call-waiting!
-
- Before I have the V.32bis/V.42bis modem, my dial-in to the site I am
- using now has lots of line noise, now it doesn't but sometimes I got
- hung up after a few hours.
-
- My friend in San Diego was on his modem and has his call-waiting
- cancelled, but got broken thru from my long distance call, which never
- happened to him before. Later I had the same experience from a long
- distance call. For him, I had to dial many times before I got the
- break-thru.
-
- Any answers? Thanks to any answers to the above.
-
-
- David Tse
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: In your questions above, (1) put your modem on your
- second line, if you have one. Suspend call waiting is not supposed to
- override front door intercom service. (2) The control unit for the
- front door must be out of order, because flashing is supposed to work
- the same way as with 'regular' call-waiting; it is supposed to put the
- central office on hold while you respond to the door. Is the common
- equipment on the premises of the apartment complex or is it in the
- telco central office? (Both versions are in use.) Regards suspend
- call-waiting being overridden by a long distance call, this is a
- mystery to me. I'd think when the LD call is handed over to your local
- CO for delivery, it would be treated like any other call and passed
- through on call-waiting or bounced back to the sender if the line was
- busy. PAT]
-