Msg: 196 *Conference*
07-09-91 22:59:16
From: ED DAHLGREN
To : MARK BARTNIK
Subj: MODEMS & PBXS
Let me give a hearty second to Richard's recommendation that you go direct from system to system whenever possible; the more you put between them, the more problems you're going to have. Yes, the curly-brace is caused by extraneous junk on the line. No, it's not caused by the PBX. It's most likely from the fact that you're using an outside line -- two of them, in fact. One to go out and one to come back in. If you can't physically put the two systems next to each other and use a short, direct cable, then try calling between them on an extension (if possible) rather than having the call leave the building. Problems with voice-grade lines once prompted the founder, president, and CEO of the second-largest computer company to tell a colleague of mine that our company wouldn't put our nice, clean data over dirty old telephone lines. What a tease he is! But his comment reflects that fact that switching equipment itself, whether intended to handle voice (and data, as all modern PBXs are) or just data, isn't the source of our headaches. It's the wonderful copper wire that acts like an antenna to pick up signals from the alien life forms on Alpha Centauri. So don't look at the curly-braces as a problem, but rather as an opportunity to receive communications from like-minded life forms that you'd otherwise only know about through science programs like Star Trek! -- Ed