Dial up noises

Old school "Dial Up" noise is troublesome. I don't have modem. I don't need to be running any applications for this to happen but it seems to happen only when connected to wifi. I have had this happen on the old os X and the new Yosemite 10.10.2. Happens randomly through the day. Got rid of all cookies and uninstalled google crome, firefox, etc. and installed to see if that was the culprit. Wasn't. Help!

QuestionAsker8 wrote:
So I was driving through town the other day and making a call through my Bluetooth to the place I was ordering dinner from all of the sudden I got about 15 seconds of screeching and kind of like dial up noises then I kept saying hello but no one was there so I called back and the person on the phone said to them it just sounded like a regular disconnection no weird noises.
The noise you describe is like the sound to set up a fax call or a dial-up modem call. That could have been disturbance from something as you passed. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
QuestionAsker8 wrote:
So later that night I picked up my phone and at 10pm it said I was receiving a call but my phone was on silent so I hadn't heard it ringing before I picked it up I pressed the top button to ignore the call and then my phone said I had missed the call at 945 which didn't make any sense. Although where I was when it said I was getting the call was somewhere with very little service if any at all.
That just sounds as if there was a problem with receiving the call since you were in a low signal area. It may have been trying to get you the voicemail. Did you check to see if you had a voicemail?
QuestionAsker8 wrote:
Then when making phone calls the last day as it's ringing the other persons phone the volume seems to shift to a few different volumes before settling for the call.
This sounds to me like calls I make occassionally, and that has to do with the carrier. As the carrier sets up the call, it can vary in volume, generally associated with how it is handled on their network. It also happens with my Bluetooth headset on occassion, and also with the Bluetooth setup in my vehicle. The first ring is very loud, then the second ring is in a more normal volume that I had set on the devices.

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