BL>> The phone rings, Paul picks up, there is a sub-second's pause,

 BL>> and then I get BUSY. If I ring straight back, it's BUSY.



 BG>> Yep, that's EXACTLY the same symptom that I was seeing here,

 BG>> although I seem to recall that it started happening during the

 BG>> final 2 weeks of his running the Viper, and went away once the

 BG>> M34F was on-line.



 BL>   It did it once with the Viper (on the last day, I think), and with

 BL> the Netcom it's worse. It's something to do with the timing of the

 BL> rings.



 BL>   This morning It gave me BUSY twice, and then worked. The phone rings

 BL> (brrt, brrt), there is a pause and the phone begins to ring again, and

 BL> then it disconnects and I get BUSY. The time it worked, the phone only

 BL> rang once (brrt), paused and rang again (brrt, brrt)... and picked up

 BL> normally when Paul sent the signals.



 BL>   I've changed nothing at this end, but it sounds like *my* problem.

 BL> The Sportshoe isn't waiting long enough for something to happen, but

 BL> S7 is set at 60 seconds, and what else is there? Is it possible that

 BL> my 0.6 second carrier recognition (S9) is too long, or S10 at 0.7 is

 BL> too short?



 BL>   It's been working that way for 3 years, though.



 BG>> The really unfortunate aspect from your POV is that you will

 BG>> have been charged for those calls, whereas I won't (at least I

 BG>> hope that's the case), because the charging doesn't begin until

 BG>> the STD pips have ceased, and mine never gets that far. Oh

 BG>> well, the bloody phone bill is almost due, so I guess I'll soon

 BG>> find out...



 BL>   Yair! I'm averaging two-for one. It's like Russian roulette; I never

 BL> know if it'll go off.



 BL>> From that I assumed it might be me hanging Paul's modem.



 BG>> No, I think you can safely apportion the blame to somebody else

 BG>> here. :) 



 BL>   What would make the Sprortie think it was BUSY when it wasn't?



It is a bit of a mistery, but This happens in about 20% of my calls to

a Meastro VFc. I have to think that it is either the Maestro or the

exchange triggering my modem to go to busy. Doesnt happen to any other

calls I make.



RUSSELL



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