Re: Phone/Fax separation
- From: "Don Schmidt" <RetiredEngineer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 03:26:16 -0700
I use a single phone line for my DSL, tel voice calls (out going and
incoming) and for FAXing, out going and incoming.
To automatically separate the voice calls from the FAX calls I have a
CommShare autoswitch. What this does is answers the incoming call, providing
a pseudo ringing sound to the caller, looks for the presence or absence of a
FAX tone and switches the call to an outgoing port of either the FAX machine
(my computer with FAX software) or to my phone.
The use of a CommShare switch has one fault, ALL calls are interpreted as
being answered by the phone company equipment thus an unanswered call (you
don't pick up the receiver on a voice call) is billed to the caller of a
long distance call. When a voice call comes in, the CommShare answers the
call by going off hook, sends a pseudo ringing sound to the caller, sends
ringing current to your phone causing the bell to ring and waits until you
take your phone off hook. If you aren't available or don't answer the call
it continues to ring until the caller hangs up. But, the CommShare went off
hook during the call and therefore to the phone company it was a completed
call.
There is more than one autoswitch brands but CommShare is at:
http://www.command-comm.com/
P.S. I refer to the switch as CommShare, it was the brand name when I bought
mine some ten years ago. The new name is CommSwitch.
And, you can also add an answering machine if you so wish.
--
Don
Vancouver, USA
"Frog2000" <Frog2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C42A47D6-01FE-4E61-8CBA-322DCBABE7F8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have installed a Duet (Australian Telstra Product)) system telephone line
> which means that 2 telephone numbers ring on the same telephone but with
> different rings. I understand that the FAX line rings using a DR7 Ringtone
> while the telephone line rings with a 'normal' telephone ring.
> I have connected the computer to the telephone using the auxilary port
> from
> the telephone and all works correctly.
> My problem is only with receiving faxes. The computer answers
> automatically
> correctly no matter which ring tone is being sent. I only want it to
> answer
> the DR7 ring tone. Is there any setting in Fax Console which allows for
> this?. I'm told that winfax used to be able to do this but winfax is not
> available for XP?. Can I configure the modem (SwanSmart V90 56K) to
> distinuish the ringtone prior to answering?
> It's okay when I am sitting at my desk but no good for unattended use.
> Anyone managed to find a way around this yet or is there a fix that I
> don't
> know about. Any help greatfully appreciated.
.
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