Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Can autodialing "wear out" a modem? Message-ID: <4509@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 10:07:44 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4509 Posted: Fri Jun 8 10:07:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Jun-84 10:22:00 EDT Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 11 I have a Racal-Vadic 212PA modem which I'm very happy with after a year of use. I'm curious about something: will repeated dialing decrease the life expectancy of the modem? Sometimes the system I'm calling is down, and I leave the modem dialing forever until it gets a connection. I wander back to the terminal once in a while to check how it's doing. Will this eventually wear out the modem? Does it make a difference whether it's touch-tone dialing or pulse dialing (when in pulse dials, it gives out audible clicks so you can hear how it's doing)? Dave Sherman