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In article <Fyts1M.4Er@dgsys.co.uk>, Dan Glover <news@dangl.demon.co.uk>
writes
>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
>
It's a bit odd since it was aok for three weeks and went bad
thurs/friday only this week. I looked in the source and wvdial seems to
suggest it can detect voice lines, but I have no idea how to set up the
modem US Robotics 56k EXT to do the check and looking through the
tech_ref.pdf that came with it I'm not certain it can do so.
-- 
Robin Becker