??? That was WEIRD. I think my phone is bugged...

[amnesiac]

Just picked up my phone to make a call, and there was a modem on the line.

We don't own a modem.

I thought the fax machine was freaking out. Turned it off, modem kept going.
Maybe it was the DirecTV dialing out. Turned that off, modem kept going.
Maybe I picked up wrong frequency. Switched channels, hung up and picked up again...same thing.

Hung up and picked up an extension line, and it was gone.

That was very, very odd.

 

[Wduaqnug]

FBI & IRS monitoring you

 

[Viper GTS]

You sure you didn't just happen to pick up an incoming fax call before it had a chance to ring?

Viper GTS

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
You sure you didn't just happen to pick up an incoming fax call before it had a chance to ring?

Viper GTS

Thats what I was thinking too.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
You sure you didn't just happen to pick up an incoming fax call before it had a chance to ring?

Viper GTS

Fax sound != modem sound

You pick up on an incoming fax and it goes "beep........beep........beep"
Plus my fax machine wasn't even set to auto answer.

When I picked up it had the "twang...shhhhhhhh...twang..." of a modem. Faxes don't do that.

Good lord, I'm a nerd.

 

[littleprince]

Thats what faxes sound like after the beep beep beep...

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
You sure you didn't just happen to pick up an incoming fax call before it had a chance to ring?

Viper GTS

Fax sound != modem sound

You pick up on an incoming fax and it goes "beep........beep........beep"
Plus my fax machine wasn't even set to auto answer.

When I picked up it had the "twang...shhhhhhhh...twang..." of a modem. Faxes don't do that.

Good lord, I'm a nerd.

Yes they do, after the initial beeps faxes sound the same way...

 

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by: Wduaqnug
FBI & IRS monitoring you

LOL.

Paranoid much?

Could be the cable company monitoring the use of your descrambler.

 

[Wduaqnug]

Sometimes you will hear that when telemarketers computer system calls you to mark that your phone number is valid

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

I used to have fax machine noises on my answering machine.

It REALLY confuses the hell out of bill collectors and relatives, lemme tell ya.

 

[psianime]

Did you try plugging in a non-cordless phone? Your phone might be picking up signals in the same frequentcy as another phone, or your phone line could have been crossed off your property.

I would call your phone company.

-psianime

 

[hevnsnt]

1. Do you have a Tivo? Direct-TV?
2. Do you have Wireless Network
3. If it was a cordless phone, sometimes when it trys to authenicate to the base, due to interference, it will try and try, which is what you probably heard.