Re: "Failure to communicate" problems

["Bob La Londe" <onebikenut@xxxxxxxxx>]

"nick markowitz" <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Apr 22, 4:37 pm, "Bob La Londe" <onebike...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "tourman" <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > On Apr 22, 10:46 am, Jim Rojas <jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> tourman wrote:
>> > TLM is always enabled, as well as touchtone only, plus spreading out
>> > the tests as you suggested is a matter of course now.
>>
>> Interestingly, I have had TLM appear to cause circuit drop on some
>> accounts.
>> I turned off TLM and changed the account to daily test and the problem
>> they
>> were experiencing went away. Looks like a loop current issues in that
>> area
>> with the local service provider, but you can never get them to admit
>> anything.
>
> Viking Electronics makes a line voltage booster for problems like that
> especially when you have older legacy equipment  which draws a lot on
> ring.

Its usually not line voltage that's an issue in cases like this, but rather
loop current capacity, but Viking does have a few tricks devices.  If you do
a lot of telephone though your really need to look at Mike Sandman's bag of
trick devices.