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- From: friday@atl.mindspring.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Distictive Ring Questions?
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:00:01 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4iuoli$19sk@mule1.mindspring.com>
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- sthomson@i1.net (Steven G. Thomson) wrote:
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- You have one physical line, but the phone company will assign however
- many phone numbers you desire. Each number will have a distinctive
- ring pattern and you can set your modem to only answer RING A or
- whatever ring type the phone company assigns for your second number.
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- >I am a little confused over distictive ring features. If I want to get
- >a fax modem that will allow voice calls to ring the phone, data calls
- >for remote access of my PC, and fax calls to leave faxes on my PC, do
- >I need to get a different phone number from the phone company for the
- >fax/data and one for the voice calls that uses only one line, or does
- >the fax/data transmission send a distinctive ring themselves on a
- >single line/number?
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- >Thanks!
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