Modem problem.

[ddeder]

This is an odd one. I have an internal 56k v.90 BCM modem. Running Windows XP Home. After a reboot, when I try to connect to the internet for the first time, it tells me I have no dial tone. If I unplug the phone cord from the modem and plug it back in, I can then dial in just fine. If I then disconnect from the internet and then try to immediately dial back in, it gives me the no dialtone error message. I unplug the phone cord and plug it back in and it works again. In other words, I have to unplug the phone cord from my modem and plug it back in in order to get it to work. Any ideas what might be causing this/how I can fix this?

Thanks.

 

[Zepper]

Sounds like your modem may not be hanging up after a session (or ever - but it may hang up when you power the computer down). Test this by plugging a duplex phone jack into the jack where you plug your modem, plug your modem into one side of the duplex jack and a standard phone into the other. Duh (must have been vapor locking when writing my original reply), more simpler, just plug the phone into the extension phone jack on the modem itself.
. Do an Internet session, log off and disconnect. When it appears that the session has ended completely, pick up the phone and see if there is a dial tone. If not, then your modem never really hung up and you will need a new modem. Unplugging the phone cord from your modem would allow the phone line to hang up and as long as you dial quick enough after you plug the cord back in you will have a dial tone (at least for a while - our phone company puts a message up if you don't start dialing quickly enough for them).
.bh.
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