Re: Problems with Modems
Mike Gassmann (mgassman@95net.com)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:26:33 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Old Man wrote:
> Sorry if this is off-topic.
>
> I hope any ISPs out there can share their experience here. What I need to
> know is that if you have a pool of modems, and one modem dies, will a user
> keep ringing that modem, getting stuck at that line instead of hopping
> down to the next one (because of a received busy signal)? So what is the
> best way of bypassing a dead modem? thanks!
If you dont have an intelligent modem rack which handles such things for
you... just remove the phone line from the dead modem, and plug it into a
cheap small telephone, and leave it off-hook. That will make the line
busy and force the other calls to hunt over/around it.