Clicking on dial tone

[v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com]

A year ago I cut my Verizon service to bare minimum (no regional or
long distance) plus fixed line forwarding to my cellular. Since I only
use it for modem, anyway. It initially started giving me some clicking
when I picked up the phone. It was a nuisance, not a problem. Over the
summer it went way. Now it goes on for tens of clicks, causing me to
need to keep redialing. I am afraid to complain becuase it took enough
of a hassle to get my current setup. Plus when I tried to get DSL,
they gave me all sorts of silly stories. Then they got it to work Then
it rained and I got crosstalk and some elderly operator made it
worse. I paid for a year DSL but never got anything. So I learned not
to talk to them.


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[Terry]

Post by v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com
A year ago I cut my Verizon service to bare minimum (no regional or
long distance) plus fixed line forwarding to my cellular. Since I only
use it for modem, anyway. It initially started giving me some clicking
when I picked up the phone. It was a nuisance, not a problem. Over the
summer it went way. Now it goes on for tens of clicks, causing me to
need to keep redialing. I am afraid to complain becuase it took enough
of a hassle to get my current setup. Plus when I tried to get DSL,
they gave me all sorts of silly stories. Then they got it to work Then
it rained and I got crosstalk and some elderly operator made it
worse. I paid for a year DSL but never got anything. So I learned not
to talk to them.
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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]

Does this happen at the interface also ? First determine if the problem is
inside or outside.

[v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com]

The clicking occurs on all lines.

The first time I pick up the phone, I get like a hundred clicks. By
the second or third pickup, I get only like five, in which case I can
finally dial. The last click sounds more electronic (ie, like a beep)
which shows it is not a pulse.


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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]

[Jim Redelfs]

Post by v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com
The clicking occurs on all lines.
The first time I pick up the phone, I get like a hundred clicks. By
the second or third pickup, I get only like five, in which case I can
finally dial. The last click sounds more electronic (ie, like a beep)
which shows it is not a pulse.

This sounds like a pair gain system line card going bad. Good luck.

[Rich Greenberg]

Post by v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com
The clicking occurs on all lines.
The first time I pick up the phone, I get like a hundred clicks. By
the second or third pickup, I get only like five, in which case I can
finally dial. The last click sounds more electronic (ie, like a beep)
which shows it is not a pulse.

Have you called VZ repair service?

[David Lesher]

Post by v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com
The clicking occurs on all lines.
The first time I pick up the phone, I get like a hundred clicks. By
the second or third pickup, I get only like five, in which case I can
finally dial. The last click sounds more electronic (ie, like a beep)
which shows it is not a pulse.

Complain, keep complaining. File PSC complaints.

A friend has rotten outside plant, all 41,000 feet of it. Bad
crosstalk and repeated outages. But they are there within 24H
because of his PSC reports...

[v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com]

Is there a way to temprarily turn off fixed line forwarding just
during the computer dialup? Like an asterisk code? I'm thinking this
might be a kludge. But supposedly fixed line forwarding (ie, rollover,
which is free) should not be changeable.

It has gotten slightly better. Now it takes me two calls to dial out,
when it took five a few days ago. From about April until September
the problem wasn't there. When I minimised my service it was doing it
for about a month.

(SOAPBOX ON)

The number one reason I want to leave NY is Verizon. about four years
ago, they cut my line while installing a neighbors' line (twice in
sfourteen months). When they notified me DSL was working and was their
fault, after insisting they had to charge me to come fix my lines, I
got crosstalk during a storm and the operator turned off my DSL. I
ended up paying for DSL for a full year without using it. Finally I
decided to get minimal service (plus fixed line forwarding to my cell
after five rings). Then I got these idiot collection agencies, who
keep calling despite the attorney general telling them I wasn't the
guy they think. Apparently they can't fathom that about a million
unrelated people worldwide have my surname. So I have no voice mail,
period. Y'know it's things like this that make me quietly enjoy what
is happening on Wall St - this is the kind of prozacked brain bovine
behavior these subrime borrowers have been exhibiting for years.

(SOAPBOX OFF)

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Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]