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Old 06-12-2005, 02:55
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Every so often I get calls on my landline from both with-held numbers, and those which aren't. When I answer, all I hear is "beep" "beep" with 1 second intervals between each "beep!" When I hang up and try to dial, there is no dial tone, only this beeping that carries on until I hang up for the second time.

Anyone any ideas???
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Old 06-12-2005, 04:15
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We used to get something like this and we were told by a bt person over the phone that it was because someone was trying to fax something and had been misdialling and thats why it resulted in us picking it up and hearing teh " beep " 1 second " beep " thing.

On another occasion, well actually 3, the line was actually faulty, as i say it was not until the 3rd time when they eventually found the fault.

Possibly phone whoever you have the landline with and ask them to check your line?
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Old 06-12-2005, 11:13
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Originally Posted by Richeh
We used to get something like this and we were told by a bt person over the phone that it was because someone was trying to fax something and had been misdialling and thats why it resulted in us picking it up and hearing teh " beep " 1 second " beep " thing.

On another occasion, well actually 3, the line was actually faulty, as i say it was not until the 3rd time when they eventually found the fault.

Possibly phone whoever you have the landline with and ask them to check your line?
It's BT so I'd be better trying to fix it myself!
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Old 06-12-2005, 19:43
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The beep beep beep, is the sound you do hear when a fax machine calls.

This is so that if the fax machine accidentally calls a speech landline, the person answering will not be blasted with high pitched screeches, also if they use the line for both speech and fax, when they hear the beep beep beep they know it will be a fax trying to transmit, so will start their fax machine off to accept the call.

If you have a fax machine on the line and set to automatically answer, when the fax answers it blasts the sending machine with its data screeches and that then responds back.
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Old 07-12-2005, 00:16
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Originally Posted by BexTech
The beep beep beep, is the sound you do hear when a fax machine calls.

This is so that if the fax machine accidentally calls a speech landline, the person answering will not be blasted with high pitched screeches, also if they use the line for both speech and fax, when they hear the beep beep beep they know it will be a fax trying to transmit, so will start their fax machine off to accept the call.

If you have a fax machine on the line and set to automatically answer, when the fax answers it blasts the sending machine with its data screeches and that then responds back.
I'm pretty sure it's not a fax machine dialling, as they sound a lot like a dial-up modem when it's connecting. It's a contant 1 second beep, with 1 second gaps between.
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Old 07-12-2005, 17:47
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but you wont hear the the 'dial-up modem sound' unless it actually connects to another fax machine.
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Old 07-12-2005, 19:57
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Originally Posted by KETKKKK
but you wont hear the the 'dial-up modem sound' unless it actually connects to another fax machine.

Just adding to the post.

So you will hear the beep beep beep warning signal informing you it is a fax communication, allowing anyone with a manual fax to start it up to receive, when you start the receiving machine off, that will blast the sending machine a signal saying I am a fax machine you can start transmitting now.

If the sending fax machine doesn't hear the signal it is expecting from the receiving end, it continues it's beep beep beep for around 30 seconds before giving in, hence holding the line for this time.
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Old 08-12-2005, 12:16
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Thanks for you help people, I'll have to keep track on the numbers that appear when this happens, to try and work out who the hell it is!!!
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