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- From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
- Subject: EMF interfering with modem communications--Any remedies?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.213042.10314@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Summary: Line noise is screwing my on-line sessions. What can I do?
- Keywords: modem, communications
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:30:42 GMT
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- Last weekend, we moved into a new home close by a local radio station. I
- had expected EMF interference degrading our television reception, but I was
- disappointed to discover that it is affecting our phones as well. The phone
- lines are quite noisy, and if you listen closely you can make out the voices
- and music of the radio station's broadcast. Some times are worse than
- others. The phone company says there is nothing it can do.
-
- Needless to say, this is having a bad effect on my modem communications.
- It is hard to establish connections, and twice I have lost connection in
- mid session. Text scrolls across the screen in fits and starts as data
- is transmitted and retransmitted through the line noise.
-
- I suppose dropping my baud rate will help, but is there anything else I
- can try? The situation is not so bad that I can't read news, answer e-mail,
- etc., but I expect downloading may well be effectively impossible.
-
- Can anyone offer any advice? (Other than moving again, I mean.)
-
- Bob Osterlund
- berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
- SSPPCC--University of Chicago
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