Rude Pac Bell Employee: "How many digits do you want on your line?"
Me: (clueless) "Huh?"
RPBE: "Why am I bothering to talk to you if you don't know what this
is? Doesn't everybody know that some or all of the digits that are
dialed by the caller can be transmitted to the callee though the
inband signalling on the line? Oh, I'm sorry, I guess they must not
have taught you that at burger flipping school."*
Me: "The more digits the better, right? I'll take twenty! OK, I'll
settle for seven." (Of course Pac Bell would know exactly the
appropriate configuration for my PM3 - why should I bother reading a
boring old document like
http://www.livingston.com/Tech/Appnotes/app.ISDN-pm3-t1pri-prov.shtml
in order to find out that I needed to request zero digits, i.e. no
Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS)? :)
Well, after getting the Pac Bell drone to remove DNIS (RPBE:
"DNIS? Never heard of it - but I can give you zero digits.") from the
circuit, the fast busy is gone and calls are going through - I've
never heard a more beautiful modem tone.
Thanks again for the help. I'll try to return the favor by
providing the same level of excellent, rapid tech support to others.
J. Patrick Bedell
jpbedell@alanine.com
* Quotes may not be verbatim :).
J. Patrick Bedell writes:
> Hi everybody:
> I'm an ISP/portmaster newbie that has a PM3 plugged into 2
> channelized T-1 lines that are being turned up by Pac Bell. Right
> now, calls to the CT-1 phone # get a busy signal. (This busy signal
> has a shorter delay between tones than a "normal" busy signal.)
> ...