Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: len@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Leonard P Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wrong Numbers With Nobody Talking Message-ID:Date: 26 Sep 89 17:54:46 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: len@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 411, message 5 of 8 From article , by sharon@asylum.sf. ca.us (Sharon Fisher): >>Anyway, it could >>be a modem calling you (like a wrong number in someone's Systems file!) >>and you would hear nothing when you answered. Remember, an originating >>modem needs to hear the answering modem's tone before it will speak. If >>you have a modem, you might let it answer your phone for awhile and see >>if something connects with it:-) I know that you can whistle a modem up. Try responding to this no voice caller with a swept frequency whistle. Often modems will "hook up" and then disconnect when you do it. A click, a bleep and a hangup will result. + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | Leonard P. Levine e-mail len@evax.cs.uwm.edu | | Professor, Computer Science Office (414) 229-5170 | | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Home (414) 962-4719 | | Milwaukee, WI 53201 U.S.A. FAX (414) 229-6958 | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +