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On that topic. I never understood why the initiation needed to be audible, but afterwards the connection was silent.
by ramblerman 4y ago
On that topic. I never understood why the initiation needed to be audible, but afterwards the connection was silent.
- Lammy 4y agoYou can hear all the post-handshake data sounds by adding &M2 to your modem script, or &M0 to mute the handshake too.
- tlb 4y agoIt kept the speaker on at first so you could hear if a human answered the phone, or got some network message like "all circuits are busy". It muted once it had a confirmed modem on the other end.
- keithnz 4y agoit doesn't have to be, ATM you could turn it off, or ATL you could control how loud it was
- gsich 4y agoThere is no need. Speakers could be disabled.
- einr 4y agoIt used to be useful to me back when my ISP had 28800 bps and 33600 bps capable modems in their pool, and I had a 33600 -- I learned to hear from the handshake when I hit one of the slower modems and would then immediately hang up and try again until I got one of the fast ones ;)
- dahart 4y agoIt was pretty useful in my experience because sometimes the line you called was busy, sometimes a human answered instead of a computer, and sometimes a computer modem just didn’t pick up for whatever reason. Hearing the dial & handshake was a way to know what exactly went wrong when you weren’t able to connect. BBSs didn’t have this problem so much, but it happened often enough when modeming with friends or with small businesses that didn’t have a large modem bank and a lot of lines. Typing the wrong number was common. I also remember experimenting with robo-dialing with my childhood friends, calling through a list of numbers, like in War Games, looking for unknown computers to connect to.
- jk_i_am_a_robot 4y agoYou could turn it on by sending the correct Hayes command before connecting. It's really annoying! And it can't be turned back off again until you disconnect.