The Thursday 2005-03-31 at 16:44 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
I have a problem with the farm telephone lines, when you lift the receiver the there is a 4 to 5 second pause before you get a dial tone,
The internet dailers don't wait long enough they just give a no dial tone error,
I don't think it is the dialer program fault, but the modem itself. One of the variables there surely holds the time to wait, but I would have to read the manual to tell you. [...] Well, I did read it. Mine says: S6 2 Sets the number of seconds the modem waits before dialing. If Xn is set to X2 or X4, this is the time-out length if there isn't a dial tone. S7 60 Sets the number of seconds the modem waits for a carrier. That's for my 3Com U.S. Robotics (R) modem, yours might be different. You may add that as a permanent configuration (power on defaults, or default profile).
Try adding ,'s (comma) before the number being dialed. This is supposed to be the pause character.
Thanks Ken and Carl I will give it a try when I go out there tommorow
I'm afraid it will not work so easily, because it is a part of the dial up string, and the software doesn't send it before getting dialing tone... you will have to tell it not to wait for the tone, and then, add the pauses. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson