Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dfh 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 Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1526 Posted: Tue Jun 25 21:42:54 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 06:45:31 EDT Organization: SCI Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 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 ...decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dfh