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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!lhaven.UUmh.Ab.Ca!combdyn!lawrence
- From: lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence Chen)
- Subject: Re: HELP! problems with 2-line phones
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.003824.2898@combdyn.com>
- Organization: Combustion Dynamics Ltd.
- References: <1992Dec18.182626.4665@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:38:24 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Dec18.182626.4665@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> joel@writer.yorku.ca (Joel Atkin) writes:
- >Help! My supra v.32bis modem, which is billed as handling line noise
- >fairly well, drops the carrier every time my other line rings. I have
- >5 two line phones hooked up throughout my house on sockets I've wired
- >for two lines. When I remove all of the phones, presto!, carrier is
- >not dropped when the other line rings. I have tried each phone
- >individually and they all seem to cause line noise on the other line
- >(line2) when line1 rings. These phones are essential and I was
- >wondering if there was some way to suppress this overlapping effect.
- >
- >BTW: would one of those 'anti evesdropping' radio shack gizmos
- >eliminate ringing from other phones too?
- >
- >I'm a desperate man (who doesn't want to install a 3rd line),
- >
- >joel
- >
- Just a hunch...you might be overloading the line....Go around and add up the
- load numbers for the phones...if you go over 100, that might explain the
- problem. I can't say for sure how bad it is...though I have the same problem
- with two of my lines, and on one line I have over 200 for load number. Dropped
- it down by restricting myself to one modem per phone line. Of course having
- to get two more phone lines (and loaning one of the modems out) wasn't cheap.
-
- I also had to chuck the answering machine. My problem with line (audible)
- noise went away....haven't noticed any disconnects when the other line rings
- lately, but I'm less likely to be connected out when the other line rings
- now. I'm more inclined to be calling out on one of the newer lines.
-
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