Fax Modems?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> What do you mean? You only get this tone from the remote fax after
> answering the line.

Yes. But anyone who answers the line gets it. If the line is shared  
between a FAX and
a person/answering machine, who ever answers first gets it.

In the old way of doing things, if this happened, you pushed the  
manual answer button
on the fax machine. Now there is no fax machine, just a modem in a  
corner, and instead of
there being only one phone part of or next to the fax machine, there  
are several scattered
around. In fact, they are a DECT cluster, 4 handsets connected to one  
base station over
a radio link.

It probably could be done better with an Asterix box, a set of WiFi  
cordless phones and
a real fax machine, but I don't want to spend the money.  I just want  
to get a "better"
fax modem.

> You want to connect this fax along-side a phone and have the fax  
> ignore
> non-fax calls?
>
Yes. What I really want it to do is have the fax go into answer mode  
when the phone is picked
up by a person and the CNG tone is there. If it does not hear the CNG  
tone, the
FAX does not go into answer mode, so you can have a normal conversation.

If the CNG tone is heard, the fax switches to answer mode, sends out a  
carrier and tries to
connect. The person who answered the phone, hangs up.

>> Without it if you use your phone line for voice too, you have to  
>> hang up
>
> "you" == the human with the phone.

>  the fax will have to answer any call (potentially after a pre-set
> number of rings), right?

Only if no one else answers. Most people use it with an answering  
machine, I don' t want one.
So if no one is home, or we are all too busy to answer, the fax  
machine would answer after
10 rings or so.


Geoff.
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