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By: Julian Aronowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On: Monday, January 22, 2001, 7:33:55 PM
Re: [Miami] Re: Calling from elsewhere.
Hi Julian,
>>>> If I want to use my computer hooked up to a different phone number,
>>>> than the one I used when I initialized Miami, but I still want to be
>>>> able to use Miami on the original phone number, how do I proceed?
>>>>
>>>> I ask the question, because, when I tried doing just that, I was not
>>>> able to connect through any of the ISP's I use.
> Here are my findings. First, in my case, my ISP neither checks for my
> phone number, via caller-id, nor does a callback; so that rules out the
> ISP angle. What is left are the physical and the programming.
> I was able to eliminate the physical and conclude that it is Miami,
> because I remembered that, about a month ago, I visited a friend of
> mine, and brought my MS Windows powered notebook computer, to show him
> how to work with the Internet. When I attached my computer to his phone
> line and tried to log into any one of my three dialup ISP's (MetConnect,
> MindSpring, and AmigaOnLine), I was not able to complete the process.
> The stacker-dialer ("Network-Dialup") refused doing it because it found
> a different "home" number than the one I had first typed in, when
> telling it where to dial. Once I added my friends number to the list,
> and told it that that was the current correct "home" number, I had no
> problems hooking up.
That would be a Windows problem, of it not liking something peculiar to
his phone number or system. i.e. Related to the computer itself, not the
ISP, and changing the dialing properties would not be doing anything
different that the ISP would be able to know about.
The Windows "dialing properties" options, which pertain to what location
the computer is dialing out from, change such things as:
Comparing the area code of yourself, and the desired number, to see if
your in the same area, or not, and then use the appropriate extra features
for long distance calls (if you've set them up).
Allowing the use of telephone control codes to be dialed before the number
(if you've programmed such codes in), and using the ones suitable to the
"location." Such things as disabling call waiting, activating call
forwarding, waiting for credit card tones.
> I suspected that Miami was doing the same thing. I was hoping that one
> of you might know a fast way to alter the "init" file to add other
> "home" phone numbers. If I do not find a work around, soon, I will
> create a separate "init" file with my Dad's number as the "home" number.
> So, if any of you has found an alternate way to do what I want to do, I
> am still interested in hearing your ideas.
Miami doesn't have a "home" number. It doesn't know what number you're
dialing from, so "it" has no way to tell the difference between whether
you call up your ISP from one place or another.
All it has, if I remember correctly (*), was some support for call-back
(you can enter the number that the TCP/IP stack would tell the ISP to call
you back on - which could be ignored by ISPs expecting you to pre-arrange
numbers with them, in person). Hopefully I'm not mixing Miami up with
another comms program. If I am, then Miami has no support for this
feature.
(* I don't have a monitor on my Amiga, at the moment, I've lost three
recently, and don't have the funds for a fourth, so I can't check.)
If re-running the MiamiInit program provides a configuration that works
for the alternative numbers, then something else has provided the
solution.
Two things springs to mind. A technical fault on a phone line. Or, an
operational difference in the phone systems. Seeing as your ISP assures
you that they don't care where you call from.
What were the differences between your phone and his? Area codes?
Barring of long distance calls? And what particular changes did you make
to the dialer, that made the difference?
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