[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. ;)

[DieHard the Hunter]

A worthy question. Anything to further the cause of FReeper Applied Science!

> 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”?

Here in New Zealand it is a double-ring, both for Ring Tone and Ring Voltage (ibid.)

Sorta like “Brrrrrrrring!-—Brrrrrrrring!.......” or, depending on your phone “Tooodledoooodledoooo!-—Tooodledoooodledoooo!”

(Note capitalization: lowercase is softer than uppercase)

It’s an annoying ring, guaranteed to wake you up, or make you sprint into the house from the backyard barbecue, or...

Hope that helps!
Cheers mate
*DieHard*