On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Brad Kowalczyk wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Do you have a phone on the same line?
>
> I was suffering a similar problem with my dialup account (it was
> disconnecting after about 20 min all the time). I discovered that
> apparently some older touch-tone telephones can cause enough
> interference on the line to cause a disconection. After I removed my
> telephone from the double adapter I was using to split the phone line I
> had no problems.
>
Gees I'd just about forgotten about that, yes they used to decide to
recharge the phone number memory battery every 15 minutes approx. I
believe this was particularly prone to happen with the flat mylar keyboard
version of the T200 handset as opposed to those with raised buttons....
but it was about a dozen years ago!
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