Ring on Outgoing Calls Suddenly Sounds Very Odd

Posts: 220 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Aug 19, 2003 Posts: 220

I did a search to see if anybody else is experiencing this, but I don't see it. Have a Linksys RT31P2, have not changed anything on the setup. Just the last few days, when I place a call, the outgoing ring will "warble" or distort. So far the calls are still going through, but I think there may have been an accompanying degredation of sound quality as well. More and more calls I'm placing are experiencing this new, odd ringtone.

Anybody else have anything like this going on? It is present on both our lines and two different phone sets (Panasonic and Motorola.)

TIA,

Laurel

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject:

I noticed a weird ring calling a vonage custimer from a pots line. the first one was normal, but the ones after were very strange. almost like a few beeps.

Posts: 220 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Aug 19, 2003 Posts: 220

Reebok:

These aren't beeps. It's like your phone would sound if it was ringing underwater, I think?

Laurel

Posts: 400 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: May 05, 2005 Posts: 400

i noticed the same thing yesterday. I thought it was just that call.

Posts: 69 · Full Forum Member Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 69

I have had it for some time now, but then again, I get it on my cell phone too.

Posts: 46 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jun 03, 2005 Posts: 46

I had a weird incoming ring but that turned out to be the firmware fer. 1.29. It also destroyed two caller ID units.

But then I get fer 1.30 and yes I have the outgoing ring that is now weird as you describe.

Just some engineers pushing updates before fully testing them is what it boils down to. Using and upgrading computers for 15 years, I have seen it many times.

Posts: 66 · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject:

I've been getting this for about 4 days with my RT31P2. Just checked and my firmware is still at 1.28.00.

Jim

Posts: 66 · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

I been having the same issue now for several weeks where every almost other outbound call will have the strange sounding outbound ring tone, but with no noticible audio degradation of the actual call itself...Nice to know I'm not the only one..

Posts: 17 · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

LouisB_TX wrote:

I been having the same issue now for several weeks where every almost other outbound call will have the strange sounding outbound ring tone, but with no noticible audio degradation of the actual call itself...Nice to know I'm not the only one..

I have had the same warble outgoing ring tone for the past 2 weeks now on my RT31P2. Have called Vonage several times about this, I finally got them to replace my adaptor. Asked for an older Moto VT100 adaptor and they sent me one! Thanks Vonage!

BTW the weird warble ring tone is gone now, no problems, and I'm a happy camper now. I'm sticking with Moto.

Posts: 66 · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject:

Oh, and another thing that's been happening lately, starting about the same time -- I hear a "scratching" noise, about 1 second long. Kind of sounds like scratching a record.

Other than that I haven't noticed sound quality degrading.

Jim