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In article <8mf7ao$1k3$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>, "robin" 
<robin@jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>I am using wvdial.dod to get access to freeserve, but sometimes
> I get a large number of holdups from BT saying that the network is busy
>how can I get pppd/wvdial.dod to time out quicker when the phone is answered,
>but no modem connection is made quickly.

You have a problem since the timeout before deciding that there won't be
a connection has to be long enough to allow the modem to negotiate.  There's
no difference, as far as the modem is concerned, between waiting for
CONNECT and the voice announcement.

If you have a voice modem it *may* be able to detect speech and return
a suitable result which can be trapped by your chat script or equivalent.

Alternatively contact BT and ask them why they don't have sufficient
capacity to route your call to Energis.  I still get through first
time, every time, calling from 01634-land.

Dan

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Dan Glover (dan@dangl.demon.co.uk)