Re: Since the list is so quiet....

> > A couple of weeks ago I started getting an intermittent "no dial
> > tone"
> > message from my attempts via terminal emulator (Z-term) to log on...
> > though I could lift up the phone and get a dial tone. Trying an
> > hour or
> > two later, I did get a tone, so I figured there was just too much
> > traffic... somewhere.

> >
> > So there is a dial tone out there & the problem is... something in
> > the old
> > phone? (Sob !)... That's intermittent? The demons got tired of
> > Carmen and
> > found me? Sliding down the telephone wire?
> >
> > But how could my rotary phone be working, give me a dial tone and
> > calls in
> > and out but say it has no dial tone for a connection? And some time
> > later, with the same configuration, same connections, etc.,
> > decides to
> > work, then maybe the next week won't? A loose connection? A
> > flaky thumb
> > plug?

> >
> > So verizon said this problem was caused by my service provider,
> > but it
> > seems rather to be lodged in my old phone, a split personality of
> > some
> > sort. Anyway, I suppose that old phone which doesn't hear as well
> > as I do
> > any more is due to be replaced (ash tray anyone?). Can you still
> > buy a
> > landline phone? Anyway, thanks for listening, if anyone has a
> > suggestion,
> > that would be even better...

        I may have missed something but you're saying the phone works but the modem
can't connect? I'd blame the modem before trashing the phone.

        Any chance the settings on the terminal program got changed?

        Nick
Received on 08/10/06-04:27:56 PM Z