WHat is it called when you sometimes prematurely hangup and the phone system
automatically calls you back and tries to reconnect you with the number you
called?

I've had a bizarre behavior with dialup modem where somehow a call from
outside manages to derail my dialup and ring my phone. Perhaps is it some
aggrssive robocalling technique, but I suspect it was bad weather distrubing
my connection and then trying to call me back?

I still haven't observed this carefully enough to figure out what happens.




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Not sure exactly what you're asking here.

I do know this, when on a dialup with call waiting, ass *70, before the number it dials. Yes, include the comma. Sometimes you don't need the coma, sometimes you do. All it does is tells the MODEM to pause. That gives the system time to issues the second dial tone. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but if you are still on dialup for all I know you could be in East Jabbaba somewhere with a 100 year old phone system. I see DSL in the US ffor like twenty bucks a month. Actually if you can get it without the phone service you couldd just geet a ?Magicjack for the phone hich is something like twenty bucks a year.

Oh, old phone systems, if, on the really off change you have call waiting but not tone dialing it is 1170 instead of *70, though 1170 should also work on tome dialing.

Now to stop the telemarketer you need what's called "sit tones.wav" which are the tones you hear when you dial a nuber not in service. Record that on your answering machine before you outgoing message. Then the computer at most telemarker's should pull your number from the list.

On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 11:35:45 AM UTC-8, wrote:
Not sure exactly what you're asking here.

I do know this, when on a dialup with call waiting, ass *70, before the number it dials. Yes, include the comma. Sometimes you don't need the coma, sometimes you do. All it does is tells the MODEM to pause. That gives the system time to issues the second dial tone. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but if you are still on dialup for all I know you could be in East Jabbaba somewhere with a 100 year old phone system. I see DSL in the US ffor like twenty bucks a month. Actually if you can get it without the phone service you couldd just geet a ?Magicjack for the phone hich is something like twenty bucks a year.

Oh, old phone systems, if, on the really off change you have call waiting but not tone dialing it is 1170 instead of *70, though 1170 should also work on tome dialing.

Now to stop the telemarketer you need what's called "sit tones.wav" which are the tones you hear when you dial a nuber not in service. Record that on your answering machine before you outgoing message. Then the computer at most telemarker's should pull your number from the list.



*70 doesn't tell the modem anything. It tells the telco switch to disable Call Waiting for the one call. It is the Call Waiting tone that is derailing your modem's call, sometimes not.

No, the comma tells the MODEM to pause before dialing the number. All the "*" codes tell the telco what to do. In fact there are a bunch of them.

As best I know, I don't have call waiting,
but I guess it doesn't hurt to block it





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You might find that you have to undo it. If you don't have call waiting that is. I am not sure what the effect would be on a line without it. Maybe you shoud try dialing *70 on a regular phone. See if you get a second dial tone. If not, don't do it.