RE: Re: Caller ID offer from Pathway Data Ltd!

["Mark Hetherington" <markh@xxxxxxx>]

> OK, I just tried it on my main desktop machine, and get exactly the
same
> effect. - Everything sort of "works", but my ring tone is
definately
> affected when the Meteor is active.

Hmmm... not got mine yet... well I don't think so, it is going to work and
I
have been out of the office today cos I was snowed in.

Seems odd that it would affect the ring tones at all. AIUI, phones generate
their own ring tone in response to the signal on the line rather than using
it to "time" the tones but cutting the signal during the ring can
do odd
things.

A while back when my HH broke leaving me with no phone at all for the whole
Xmas period (and BT only compensate for "working days" :( ), the
phones used
to do weird rings on their own in response to the "status check"
that the HH
box does. My box was telling BT every 10-15 minutes or so that something
was
fuxored... apparently it generated a hell of a lot of log info during the 5
days or so it was offline... hehe. The Sky digibox sometimes creates a ring
signal that ends up as a rin...bleugh when it reports back to "Big
Brother",
although I have not noticed it recently.

I guess you have tried unplugging all of the handsets except each one in
turn to make sure one of them is not "transmitting" over the
line.
Apparently some (notably BT) phones are quite bad at disrupting other
devices on the line.

Try unplugging the meteor and ringing yourself (from a mobile or the PC or
something) and cutting off at various points during the ring tone cycle to
attempt to recreate the effect. Might give an indication of how the meteor
is altering the signal... maybe it is picking up the ring tones and
attempting to interpret caller ID, suspending the line signal to all
internal phones just enough to interrupt the cycle.

Hope you followed that... getting late and had couple drinks to help me
sleep so forgive me if it is just gibberish :)

Anyway, as soon as I get mine I will post my result here. Kinda annoyed I
just transferred all my HA stuff to a laptop for the "inbuilt
UPS" but it
only has one serial port. I must get around to building the dedicated box
for HA. No harm in test bedding on my main PC though I guess since it gives
me the chance to check everything out before letting it loose on the house
:)

Mark.