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From: dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (David Hinnant)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: phone line hits: who to blame?
Message-ID: <1526@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 21:42:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 21:42:54 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:45:31 EDT
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc.
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I'm having a random disconnect problem, and don't know who to blame.
I dial in from home (Sothern Bell) to work (GTE) at night.  It's a local
call.  I get bumped an average of once an hour, at random intervals on an
otherwise flawless line (though I do have to dial in 2 or 3 times before I
get a perfectly noiseless line).

If after a bump I switch off my modem and pick up the phone.  I hear one of
three different sounds:

	(1) A busy signal
	(2) A trunk (fast) busy sinal
	(3) A dial tone

If I get (1) or (2) does that mean GTE knocked me off?
If I get (3) I assume Sothern Bell did the dirty deed.  Correct?

I get (1) most of the time.  Will GTE listen to me if I complain, or do
they do line testing late at night and don't care which lines they hit?

						David Hinnant
						SCI Systems, Inc.
						(919) 549-8334
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