Re: Fax number is dialing too quickly

Since you have told us neither the OS nor the fax software or hardware
you are using, life is far too short to even start remote debugging in
words of one syllable. God and the denizens of Usenet tend to help
those who make some attempt to help themselves!

However, there is one thing that is worth a try: If you can get to the
Advanced Modem Properties settings for the modem you are using - in
XP, you do this by traversing Control Panel | Printers and Other
Hardware | Phone and Modem Options, choose the modem you are using on
the Modems tab, click the Properties button, and then choose the
Advanced tab - enter ATW in the 'Extra Initialisation Commands' box.
This will explicitly tell the modem to wait until it hears a dial tone
before dialing (this is, however, normally the default). The symptoms
you describe could result from a modem dialing blind in the face of a
local phone system that takes too long (could be only a second or so)
to bring up a dial tone when the phone goes off hook.

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:16:02 -0700, Darlene
<Darlene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I mean by "much too fast" is that when I put the call on speaker phone
to try and debug the problem (i.e. to make sure it was dialing the area code
and was not dialing 1) I could hear that it dialled so quickly no connection
was made and it was trying to send the fax over the dial tone. When I forced
a pause by adding commas in front of the fax number, the fax was sent
successfully.

You must have missed my reference to being a Luddite. I have no idea what
any of the technical stuff in your post means I'm afraid. Please start from
"go into control panel" and walk me through it, okay?

Thanks.

Darlene
"Peter R. Fletcher" wrote:

What do you mean by "much too fast"? A modem typically dials
significanty faster than a human being can - the default tone duration
(for each digit) is 95 msec, so you should get about 10 digits dialed
in a second. If it seems to be dialing much faster than this, the tone
duration setting is held in the modem's S11 Register, and should be
able to be changed by issuing an appropriate AT command (e.g.
ATS11=95).


On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:55:01 -0700, Darlene
<Darlene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm a confessed Luddite and I'm looking for a more elegant solution to my
problem. After going through various versions of dialing rules to make sure
that the area code was being dialed but "1" was not being dialed, I finally
ran the lines through my phone & put it on speaker so I could listen to what
the modem was doing. Turned out that while there was a dial tone it was
dialing much too fast so the call was not going through and the fax was being
transmitted to a dial tone.

My bandaid was inserting commas in front of the fax number (suggested by a
computer geek ex) but there must be a cleaner way to fix this problem. Any
suggestions gratefully accepted.


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Peter R. Fletcher


Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher
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