The hardware that ISP's use "don't ring" (You won't hear a ringing sound on
the other end). Most use R2 or PRI's on 3com/cisco or Ascend Gaer which
basically go "Ya, I've got a call.. get CallerID/CalledID(if hardware set up
to get(this is pretty slow)) and then answers".

Thanks
Craig Whitmore
http://www.nzdsl.co.nz
New Zealand DSL Information

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Warner" <paul.warner@bigfoot.com>
To: "NZ Adsl List" <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:23 AM
Subject: RE: Getting connected in NZ

> At 04:22 PM 02/22/2002 +1300, Craig Humphrey wrote:
> >And the bottom line is the NZ$200,000 fine that Telecom might land you
with
> >if the fault it tracked to your non-Telepermited equipment.
>
> I that case Telecom's Xtra is using non Telepermit modems. They answer on
> the first ring. From what I can remember of modem telepermits it is
> supposed to give at least 3 rings before answering.
>
>
>
>
> Paul Warner
>
> paul.warner@bigfoot.com
>
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