[ale] Modem problem (w/ Vonage)

[Jeff Hubbs]

George, I'm not saying this is THE solution but in the list of things to
try, you might want to consider swapping out the modem.

Reason I say this is that I was using a no-name modem to fax out with
last year.  My primary use for this was to send my biweekly invoices to
my primary consulting customer.  I got a call from them one day about a
problem with an invoice and after a lot of head-scratching I was able to
determine that a whole section of vertical page space was simply missing
after transmission - just enough to neatly delete one line from the
invoice.  I drove over to Goodwill and picked up a 3com for ~$5 and
faxing was fine after that.  

My point is that your software may expect a modem action or reaction
that it's not quite getting due to a buggy modem - be it yours or the
developers'.  

Jeff

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:18 -0500, George Carless wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a small issue.. I'm trying to hook up my Vonage line to a 
> modem, to use vocp (vocpsystem.com) for voicemail etc.  The trouble I'm 
> having is that the modem doesn't appear to be communicating 100% 
> properly with the machine.  While it responds fine to AT commands etc. 
> in minicom, the problem is this:  When I call the line, it only 
> registers intermittent RINGs.  The respective light on the modem (a 
> SupraExpress 56e PRO) does light with each ring, but using minicom (for 
> example) I only see maybe one in three of the rings actually showing on 
> the machine.
> 
> Now, it's been a long long time since I meddled with modems, especially 
> on Linux, so I may be missing something obvious (in fact I hope I am).  
> But does anyone have any thoughts as to how I can troubleshoot, and as 
> to whether the issue may be with the modem, with the line, with the 
> serial port... or with the user? ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> --George
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