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- From: mckeeveb@monashee.sfu.ca (Gumby - The unknown user)
- Subject: Re: ZyXEL Caller ID probs w/ GTD-5. Does 5.04 help?
- Message-ID: <mckeeveb.726456512@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <19347@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:28:32 GMT
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- Mike_Benna@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Benna) writes:
-
- >I just got off the phone with ZyXEL tech support... they tell me that
- >the 5.04 ROMs will correct my caller ID problems but I'm skeptical
- >(responses from an earlier post of mine indicated that it did not fix
- >other people's problems). The switch used at the central office is a
- >GTD-5. If you're hooked up to a GTD-5 and you had caller ID problems,
- >did 5.04 fix them for you?
-
- ZyXEL USA told me that CID problems on GTD-5 and DMS-100 exchanges was not
- fixed even in release 5.05.
-
- This has to do with the GTD-5 and DMS-100 using flash ringing: the exchange
- is free to start ringing at any point during the 2-second ring, rather than
- at the beginning.
-
- Suggestions on how to improvethis have been fowarded to Tawain, but I suspect
- that it will be a while before it's fixed. (please someone, prove me wrong)
-
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- Rob McKeever VE7ICJ rmckeeve@sfu.ca mckeeveb@sfu.ca 604-291-0457
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