Well that was queer...

[johnjohn320]

I called a friend, she wasn't home so I started to leave a message on her machine. I heard a voice coming through the ear piece the entire time I was leaving the message, it took me a couple seconds to realize it was my own! :Q Either my phone, or her machine, or something was repeating everything I said back to me, with about a 1/2 second delay.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

If signal strength between two machines over cabling like that is too strong, it's very common to get the signal bounced back, or reflected, off of a piece of hardware between the two machines. It happens with cable modems all the time. But that only causes the cable modem to talk to "itself" instead of the real network and, therefore, the modem will act as though there is no network connection available.

If you go listen to the message on her side, you won't hear it.

 

[WhiteWonder]

are you sure you didn't call yourself 1/2 second in the past?

 

[Spikey217]

Happens with my cell phone a lot. It's rather annoying. If it's not super important, I just hang up and call again which usually fixes it.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Spikey217
Happens with my cell phone a lot. It's rather annoying. If it's not super important, I just hang up and call again which usually fixes it.

SprintPCS ?

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: rh71
SprintPCS ?

T-Mobile

 

[prodigy]

Originally posted by: Spikey217
Happens with my cell phone a lot. It's rather annoying. If it's not super important, I just hang up and call again which usually fixes it.

Happens to me too on occassion.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Spikey217
Happens with my cell phone a lot. It's rather annoying. If it's not super important, I just hang up and call again which usually fixes it.

Yeah, me too

 

[her209]

...and how was this queer?

 

[FuzzyBee]

SprintPCS ?

me, too

 

[Hammer]

its happened to me before, and i can't talk right when it does that.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: her209
...and how was this queer?

Do we need to look queer up in the dictionary? It was odd. I found this experience to be odd. Odd=queer. Just like Gay=happy. Isn't the English language great?

Sorry, I went a little off the deep end there. It's late. i'm tired. Good night.

 

[Kaervak]

Happened to me a couple years ago on my cell phone. Kinda cool, but I was talking to a CSR at them time. D'oh.

 

[Sluggo]

That is actually a small rift in the seamwork of time that holds all the millions of seperate universes apart, use utmost caution next time it happens, if you actually talk to yourself through one of those rifts, the universe could very well collapse.

 

[hevnsnt]

Try talking to someone in africa some day.. My little brother went over there and the echo was like 3 secs after you said it.. Now that really fvcks you up.

 

[CraigRT]

Well that was queer...

haha, what a way to describe the situation...

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
Try talking to someone in africa some day.. My little brother went over there and the echo was like 3 secs after you said it.. Now that really fvcks you up.

Why does it only do that in Africa?