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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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| 339546 | 2005-03-30 00:04:00 | Hey, Since yesterday, whenever the phone rang, we would pick it up and then there would be this screaming sound. Later we tried calling home from a cell, and low and behold my PC picked it up! It rings once, then my modem clicks on, then a screaming sound ensues, like the internet sound, but not the same tune... On the phone line that my computer connects to we have, a fax machine, regular phone, cordless phone, DSL 302G modem (not doing anything). However my computer is at the very start... or end... of the circuit. AS in power and telephone line enters the house above my bedroom window. Now telecom was sposed to hook up jetstream (telecommunists.smokin.co.nz), not sure if they did or not, but we have a filter on the phone line as it leaves the building. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 339547 | 2005-03-30 00:13:00 | Are you sure it's not the fax machine picking up the call? Have you set up the PC to receive faxes? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 339548 | 2005-03-30 00:21:00 | of course im sure its not the fax machine! If it was the fax machine, it would be screaming. My modem actually clicks onto the phone line and starts talking!! As for setting up my pc to recieve faxes? I haven't touched it! |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 339549 | 2005-03-30 00:27:00 | What is this "filter". If you are getting Jetstream and you do have a proper splitter on the line as it enters the building, the connection for the ADSL modem should be separately wired from that point. If the ADSL modem is connected to the same wiring as the phones you need filters on all the other devices. Pointless link BTW. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 339550 | 2005-03-30 00:34:00 | What was changed or moved yesterday that started this problem. Something obviously was, phone wiring, computer config. - anything? |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 339551 | 2005-03-30 00:49:00 | nothing I can think of would have caused this... Apart from the fact I was running a big defrag/speeddisk cleanup of my computer at the time. The filter is the adsl filter. There is a phone jack (rj11 or watever) at this end of the house. When it is plugged in, all the jacks in the house are connected. When it is unplugged, nothing is connected. So we just have the filter on that so everthing in the house is filtered from the DSL signals. on it is 2 phones, a fax, and 2 analogue modems, as well as the dsl modem which is doing nothing at the moment. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 339552 | 2005-03-30 00:57:00 | Suggest get telecom to check that someone has'nt illegally tapped into your phone line, had this happen some years back. On computer could hear this person making toll calls, screaming sound could be when they go onto the Internet. Get your account checked for any unknown calls. | FrankS (257) | ||
| 339553 | 2005-03-30 01:01:00 | If you can hear the modem pick up, its hardly likely to be someone leeching the connection. More likely the modem setup is to answer, possibly by fax software or similar that has accidentally had it's configuration file altered/removed by the defrag process. It is easy to check by disconnecting the modem and ringing in anyway. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 339554 | 2005-03-30 03:25:00 | Putting the filter on at the "beginning" is wrong. Because then you are filtering the router as well.. You need to have a filter for each device OTHER than the router. | pctek (84) | ||
| 339555 | 2005-03-30 03:50:00 | We tried ringing with my computer unplugged, and it went thru fine... Damn.. I just remebered I left home without unplugging it... my mum is gonna be confused as! Also I believe the jack the DSL modem is plugged into is beyond the filter... |
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