Hello Tim,
First, thanks for your continuing trying to help me.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001, at 10:49 PM, you wrote:
> _Replying to a message_
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Bye,
> Tim.
One, I do not, nor have I ever confused MS Windows with Amiga
WorkBench. I do not confuse the MS Network-Dialup with Miami.
What I did notice was that both are stacker-dialers functioning
in much the same way, as each does not care what mail client or
browser you use.
As far as telephone lines go, the differences between my line
and my Dad's line and my friend's line, are the telephone ex-
changes and the fact the only I have any special service -- call
waiting. All three have the same area code, as we all live
within a few city blocks from one another. The rest of the
phone service is identical and provided by the same company,
plus, the calls to my ISP's are local calls. The one thing I
do, with phone numbers I call, is to add a prefix to disable my
call-waiting, while I am on the Internet. This prefix does
nothing when used with a line that does not have the call waiting
service.
I do remember that you must type in your own phone number,
when you run the Miami Init program. I just wanted to know
whether there were a fast and easy work around, other than run-
ning that program again?
Your monitor problem. You have none (so to speak). If you
can get your hands on an A520 (a one piece converter which at-
taches to the RGB port of the Amiga and, with simple audio cables
with RCA plugs, attaches to your TV set. You will not have as
sharp an image (printing, etc.) as with a computer monitor, but,
until you get another computer moniter, for your Amiga, you will
be able to use your Amiga. Now, you just have to find someplace
that sells the A520.
Again, thanks for trying to help.
Julian.
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