Rogue dialler on a broadbamnd connection - please help!

Mr_Meanie

Do you have a Sky TV box?

imho

superscaper is right,there is no way a broadband connection can dial up any where apart from your modem to computer. There is a setting on the computer some where,you click never dial a number.Off hand i cant remember where on the computer i have seen it,but some one will tell you.

superscaper

MadCowMan wrote:

Those horrible E-M@ailer things ? I thought they dialed up for longer than that for adverts.

Well it may be for about 15 seconds rather than 6 but you never know. Parents have one where we set it to never automatically dial and yet it still does, only found out when we asked for completely broken down itemised bill to see why the bill cost so much considering most of calls are on 1899.

MadCowMan

I think the auto dialing was a requirement of the subsidy ? ( hence my prefix of 'horrible' )

superscaper

MadCowMan wrote:

I think the auto dialing was a requirement of the subsidy ? ( hence my prefix of 'horrible' )

I agree with the horrible, but Amstrad say it will "only" dial once a week if set to manual, which I strongly disagree with in itself (parents never use email feature anyway, phone was gift), but it actually dials daily.

hammy_the_hammer

the fax sound you hear ...are you sure it's not a modem it's ringing in to ? if you have no connection from your modem to the telephone side of your broadband it can't be a rogue dialler on the pc. are you sure you haven't got a sky box connected to the line ? what equipment have you got connected to the telephone line ?
even with a line fault the same number wouldn't be rung 300 times ...in fact the most common number likely to be dialled with a fault condition is 112. what do you actually expect BT to do for you ?