RE: Problems with Modems

Rick Smith (rick@tsa.net)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:28:30 -0400 (EDT)

Call the phone company NOW and get call-forward-no-answer
on your lines. All of them. You can pick a # of rings
to forward on. I pick 3. I'm about to kick it down to 2
however. If you have a hunt group now, you already have
call-forward-busy on all yer lines. Add the no answer
option too. You'll be glad you did.

Rick Smith================================rick@tsa.net
Vice President
Town Square Access Internet Service Provider
World Wide Web Services
(908) 953 - 2880 Leased Lines - PPP accounts
(800) 268 - 7139 http://www.tsa.net
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Rhudi wrote:

> another way to do this is to make a plug that shorts the center two wires.
>
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> From: Mike Gassmann[SMTP:mgassman@95net.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 1996 6:26 AM
> To: portmaster-radius@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: Problems with Modems
>
> 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.
>
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