Do you have call forwarding or voice mail on your line?  If so, these
usually cause a "staggered" dial tone when you first pick up the phone.  If
you have that staggered dial tone, the modem might not recognize it as a
valid dial tone and would return the error you see.


Tony Mayer
Sysop
The Magic FunHouse BBS
http://bbs.magicom.net



>I use Netzero to connect to the internet. It was fine a few days ago and
>all of sudden I began recieving "No dial-tone" errors when I tryied to
>connect. I checked all of my phone line connections and all were fine. I
>removed my modem drivers and re-installed with no success.I unchecked the
>"Wait for dial tone box" and nothing happened.  I removed netzero and
>re-installed with no success. I bought a new modem and had the same
>problem. I then put in the ATX1 init string and my modem finally started
>to dial the phone numbers in my access list. I have 5 different numbers in
>my list. It goes through all numbers and then I get an error "unable to
>connect to any numbers in the list" Could this be because of the init
>string? If i take it out, how can I resolve the no dial tone error? I also
>went into control panel and into modems and then the diagnostics tab and
>queryed the modem and it appears that my modem is functioning properly. If
>anyone has any Ideas I would really appreicate hearing them. Please help
>me. Thanks

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