sat-t60 will not make daily call

Take it to a friend's house with "plain old telephone service", hook it up to a TV and the phone line, and make the call there. Then take it back home.

 

According to the many messages I've read (did you search?) you may make the "ET Phone Home" call without a DTV connection

 

When it gets to the "searching for satellite" screen, press the TiVo button to continue.

 

Hey kiddk1,

I had similar problems and have vonage recently and I tried the following:

# If you are using Vonage, be sure that you have your "bandwidth saver" setting set to 90Kbps. This is a Vonage setting and can be accessed through your Vonage account.

# Be sure that "Dial Tone Detection" and "Phone Available Detection" are both turned off.

# Set the call waiting prefix to "*99" which tells Vonage that you will be placing a data call.

I'm not sure if it helped or not, but what I eventually did was, after making a "successful test" call I just left the SAT-T60 sitting on the "make a daily call screen" and every time I walked by the unit I just pressed the select button to make it start the dialing process... eventually, somewhere around the 6th ot 7th time the daily call was successful. I suspect I'm going to have a problem with new software downloads though... On the plus side, the last time I had this problem was in 2003 and I haven't had the SAT-T60 connected to a phone line all that time... An electrical surge caused my most recent occurance of this problem... and now the 120GB hard drive is about to die so I guess I have a weekend project.

hope this helps.

Mike