The National Enquirer reports at 7:05 PM +0200 10/3/04, Mikael Bystr�m wrote:
Bob said:
>What are you using for PPP? ARA? FreePPP?
>PPP.
Does to me, sort of. OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 have a PPP control panel. OS 8.6 and 9.1 use Remote Access control panels.
PPP is the underlying protocol and ARA is similar. PPP, Remote Access, FreePPP and MacPPP are software for accessing PPP (and ARA in the case of Remote Access).
Does not compute. :-)
I was asking so that we could check the settings if needed (flow control, port speed etc).
>Can you connect a regular phone to that line and/or connector? If so, >pick up the receiver and dial one numerical digit. Then listen and >see if you hear that buzz, or any noise at all.
Yes, the line is equally noisy in every stage.
Sounds like that is you primary problem. A call to the phone company sounds in order. It may be something as simple as a bad ground connection at your house phone box. But they should be able to find it and fix it.
Before you call, take a phone out to the service entrance. If the service entrance is relatively new there should be a modular jack (assuming this is US, I don't know about the rest of the world). A cable is plugged into this jack. The jack is the incoming connection and the cable goes to your household wiring. Unplug the cable and plug in your phone. Check the connection now. If it's still bad then call your phone company. This is precisely the purpose of this connector. If your connection is bad at this jack then it's the phone company's problem. If it's okay here but noisy/bad in the house then it's your wiring that's the problem. Mind you I've had a phone company employee try to blow me off on this. They kept saying if they didn't find any problem I would get billed even though I had told them several times I had done this test, THEIR test.
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