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Posted by jerryl on August 7, 2006, 5:37 am
We're at our wit's end. We have a problem that Bellsouth cannot fix or find
the cause of. The phones in the house give one short ring, usually in the
middle of the night or early morning. Only heard it once during the daytime.
Caller ID shows nothing. Bellsouth has checked all their connections. They
put a block on their computer that automatically checks lines. I've
disconnected all phone lines connected from my DirecTV and DSL and router to
no avail. There is nothing else to disconnect and yet it still rings. Anyone
have any ideas?
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Posted by mm on August 7, 2006, 7:54 am
wrote:
>We're at our wit's end. We have a problem that Bellsouth cannot fix or find
>the cause of. The phones in the house give one short ring, usually in the
>middle of the night or early morning. Only heard it once during the daytime.
>Caller ID shows nothing. Bellsouth has checked all their connections. They
>put a block on their computer that automatically checks lines. I've
>disconnected all phone lines connected from my DirecTV and DSL and router to
>no avail. There is nothing else to disconnect and yet it still rings. Anyone
>have any ideas?
What about just turning off all the bells at night? If you need to
get emergency messages you can leave a phone machine on, with volume
on high. You can move it next to the bed if necessary. If it only
rings once and short, it probably won't turn the phone machine on.
I have 9 phones in my house, but only one bell per floor. Sometimes I
change things and only have one bell turned on for the whole house,
and when I really need to sleep in the morning, I turn that off too.
If you can't "turn" it off, you can open the phone and cut a wire, or
put a splice a wire with a switch in it, going to the outside of the
phone. Or change to a different model phone. Or you might be able to
just put some blankets and pillows over it at night.
Or arre you asking how to find out who is calling you and stop him?
At work it was the other problem, too many outgoing toll calls. They
installed possibly expensive software, and maybe some hardware, that
kept a record, of which extension made each call. Maybe 300 or 500
phones in the various buildings. It turned out it was the Coke
machine. The Coke machine was set up to call the supplier whenever it
was running out of cups or syrup or spritzer, and the number was in
the next area code. No problem, except the machine went bad and was
calling over and over, as soon as it hung up, all day and all night,
all month every month. What would that be, maybe 1400, 1000, 500
calls a day.
(I don't know if it stopped calling when it was filled up again, but
eventually it ran down, and the supplier knew he had several days, a
week or more, to get there before it was actually empty.)
So, you have to use your imagination, and maybe you can't solve the
underlying problem. But you can keep the phone from waking you up.
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Posted by on August 7, 2006, 9:34 am
wrote:
>At work it was the other problem, too many outgoing toll calls. They
>installed possibly expensive software, and maybe some hardware, that
>kept a record, of which extension made each call. Maybe 300 or 500
>phones in the various buildings. It turned out it was the Coke
>machine. The Coke machine was set up to call the supplier whenever it
>was running out of cups or syrup or spritzer, and the number was in
>the next area code. No problem, except the machine went bad and was
>calling over and over, as soon as it hung up, all day and all night,
>all month every month. What would that be, maybe 1400, 1000, 500
>calls a day.
Good grief......
So much for technology going amuck. You'd think the supplier would
have called you and complained about all the incoming calls....
I'd cut the phone line to that coke machine forever.....
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Posted by mm on August 7, 2006, 7:01 pm
On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:34:32 -0500, maradcliff@UNLISTED.com wrote:
>wrote:
>
>>At work it was the other problem, too many outgoing toll calls. They
>>installed possibly expensive software, and maybe some hardware, that
>>kept a record, of which extension made each call. Maybe 300 or 500
>>phones in the various buildings. It turned out it was the Coke
>>machine. The Coke machine was set up to call the supplier whenever it
>>was running out of cups or syrup or spritzer, and the number was in
>>the next area code. No problem, except the machine went bad and was
>>calling over and over, as soon as it hung up, all day and all night,
>>all month every month. What would that be, maybe 1400, 1000, 500
>>calls a day.
>
>Good grief......
>So much for technology going amuck. You'd think the supplier would
>have called you and complained about all the incoming calls....
I think maybe the calls were answered by another computer, that
rejected duplicate calls.
>I'd cut the phone line to that coke machine forever.....
Hey, we need coke. If it weren't for that, we'd need crack.
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on August 7, 2006, 11:10 am
wrote:
>wrote:
>
>>We're at our wit's end. We have a problem that Bellsouth cannot fix or find
>>the cause of. The phones in the house give one short ring, usually in the
>>middle of the night or early morning. Only heard it once during the daytime.
>>Caller ID shows nothing. Bellsouth has checked all their connections. They
>>put a block on their computer that automatically checks lines. I've
>>disconnected all phone lines connected from my DirecTV and DSL and router to
>>no avail. There is nothing else to disconnect and yet it still rings. Anyone
>>have any ideas?
>
>What about just turning off all the bells at night? If you need to
>get emergency messages you can leave a phone machine on, with volume
>on high. You can move it next to the bed if necessary. If it only
>rings once and short, it probably won't turn the phone machine on.
>
>I have 9 phones in my house, but only one bell per floor. Sometimes I
>change things and only have one bell turned on for the whole house,
>and when I really need to sleep in the morning, I turn that off too.
>
>If you can't "turn" it off, you can open the phone and cut a wire, or
>put a splice a wire with a switch in it, going to the outside of the
>phone. Or change to a different model phone. Or you might be able to
>just put some blankets and pillows over it at night.
>
>
You should be able to find a ring control cord (that disables the
ringer). Or, you may be able to make one. It's just a full-wave
rectifier (you should be able to use 200V diodes) on the phoneline.
The ringer won't work on DC, but everything else should.
[snip]
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
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