Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 17:40:36 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: rpt@miles.sso.loral.com (Richard Toren) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CallerID ? Message-ID: <199606150040.RAA22900@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960614200240.7038A-100000@miles> from "Richard Toren" at Jun 14, 96 08:12:42 pm
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It seems that Richard Toren said: > I bought an ID box just so that I could verify my results. It never did > work. The results of my talks with PP tech support were these: > 1) there is no standard for caller ID. Different companies may do > it differently. I assume you mean the content of the message transmitted? I thought the actual hardware interface characteristics were pretty much standardized. > 2) PP is in CA, and as a result they never could test there; but rather > had to go out of state. > 3) Different "CP"s will have different signal levels. What you may be able > to pick up at one phone you can't 2 blocks away. I suspect that may be more a case of the load impedance your "phone" (i.e. home) presents to the CO. > In my case, I have two phone lines in the same exchange, but they do enter > the house on two different trunk lines. The CallerID box does show numbers > for one line but not the other (always out of area). After these initial Do you have the same load on each line (e.g., REN's?) I know I have some genuine Ma Bell touchtone phones that won't even generate their touchtones on modestly loaded lines -- yet work perfectly with lightly loaded lines... > failures I dropped the idea. Corporate secutity also decided that it would > not be secure enough anyway (-shrug-). You could always use callbacks! :> --don
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