Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!red.rutgers.edu!Carter From: Carter@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (_Bob) Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: Rochester telephone service Message-ID: <8510252214.AA07393@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 19:01:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucb-vax.8510252214.AA07393 Posted: Thu Oct 24 19:01:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 08:24:37 EDT References:Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 19 Approved: telecom@ucbvax.berkeley.edu From: Tom Martin I have been traveling a lot to Rochester, NY lately, and the most aggravating part of it (or even, the only aggravating part) is the terrible service provided by Rochester Telephone. I make fairly frequent calls from northern N.J. (201) to Hamilton, N.Y. (315)824-XXXX, and vice versa. I very often get the tones and the "All lines are busy, try again" msg. Is Hamilton in the Rochester LATA? One thing *I think* I've noticed. It seems that if I punch in the numbers slowly and very evenly (about 2 or 3/sec.) the success ratio tends to be much higher. Would that be a crossbar trying to deal with the output from a DTMF decoder or something of the like? _B