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| Thread ID: 56199 | 2005-03-30 00:04:00 | My PC answers the phone! | hamstar (4) | Press F1 |
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| 339556 | 2005-03-30 04:22:00 | As usual, GF is the only one who has looked at what is happening. Yet. ;) Somehow your modem has been configured to "autoanswer". That is what is happening. The ringing tone is detected and the modem answers. The tone you hear is the modem identifying itself as a modem to the caller. This has nothing to do with ADSL, the positioning of filters in the system, people tapping your line, or the evils of Telecom. It has everything to do with the default setup of the modem. For the most common use these days (where you call the ISP), a modem should be in "originate" mode, but there is another code which will set the modem to answer by itself, rather than needing an instruction from the computer to "pick up the handset". |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 339557 | 2005-03-30 04:27:00 | As usual, GF is the only one who has looked at what is happening. Yet. ;) This has nothing to do with ADSL, the positioning of filters in the system, people tapping your line, or the evils of Telecom. I saw that his question had been answered - the modem. However if he is going to use Jetstream and he does not have his filters set up correctly I thought it worth mentioning. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 339558 | 2005-03-30 04:37:00 | If "the" filter was installed by a Telecom contractor it will certainly be a "splitter" (which is really just a lowpass filter) feeding all of the "phone" jacks from its output, with a jack on its input side for the DSL unit. There is no need for a filter on every "phone" on the line if there is a lowpass filter at the entry point. The DSL however needs to be connected on the exchange side of that one filter. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 339559 | 2005-03-30 09:12:00 | If "the" filter was installed by a Telecom contractor it will certainly be a "splitter" (which is really just a lowpass filter) feeding all of the "phone" jacks from its output, with a jack on its input side for the DSL unit. There is no need for a filter on every "phone" on the line if there is a lowpass filter at the entry point. The DSL however needs to be connected on the exchange side of that one filter. I am aware of that but nowhere does he say Telecom installed it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 339560 | 2005-03-30 10:19:00 | Has this problem been solved if not, then there's 2 thingsI think it could be: The PC is turned into a fax, or The PC is acting as a dial-in server. Since you rule out it's a fax, I'll say it's a dial-in server, What OS? well for XP, go into your Network Properties and remove the Listen for PC, or whatever it is connection, I ain't on Windows so can't specifically say what it is. If it's not this, then it could be some form of software doing it. Make sure to turn off all services that aren't needed. KK |
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