[DieHard the Hunter]

I’ve just quickly reviewed your other answers.

1) The “Call Waiting” suggestions are promising. If you have “call waiting” enabled you won’t be getting ring voltage, just a light “beep”. Disabling Call Waiting would be a great first step.

2) DSL suggestions — tho’ not immediately helpful — are also a great idea. Dialup sucks: I am on dialup and the only reason I’m not on Broadband is that they still have to upgrade our local exchange. That is one of the prices I pay for living in NZ: we have a third-world telephone system. It went straight to Hell shortly after privatization... If you can get DSL it’s a great way to solve a whole bunch of your problems.

Out now for a little while... I’ll check this thread when I get back.

*DieHard*

[mkjessup]

Dialup sucks: I am on dialup and the only reason I’m not on Broadband is that they still have to upgrade our local exchange. That is one of the prices I pay for living in NZ: we have a third-world telephone system. It went straight to Hell shortly after privatization...

Say there FRiend, hope your weekend was good and this tech talk just reminded me of a burning question perhaps you can answer for all of us on this thread, being that you're down there in NZ, and to begin: we all know that it's one of the quirks of nature that when one is living in the southern hemisphere that the water in your toilet when flushed goes down in a clockwise direction, as opposed to living in the northern hemisphere where it flushes down in a counter-clockwise direction, right?

So here's the question:

Here in the northern hemisphere, the traditional phone produces a sound similar to "BRRRRRRRRINNNNG!" when receiving an incoming call, is it true that in the southern hemisphere, the sound is closer to "GNNNNNIRRRRRRRRRB"?

I think everyone would like to know about that. ;)