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- From: gvb@telly.on.ca (George VandeBunte)
- Subject: Re: Zyxel Distinctive Ring
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:17:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <2B506857.825@telly.on.ca>
- References: <C0GzCF.GK@unix.portal.com> <C0H1n0.KF9@cs.psu.edu> <C0Hv20.HBI@unix.portal.com>
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- In article <C0H1n0.KF9@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- >In article <C0GzCF.GK@unix.portal.com> ttolh@shell.portal.com (Todd N Tolhu
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- >|the ability of the modem to report *which* ring pattern
- >|was detected.
- >|
- >|Is there a way to get the modem to report this, or might Zyxel consider
- >|adding this function?
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- >I asked about adding this; they said they were evaluating the possibility.
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- > Bill
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- <Hmmm... I hope they look favorably on the idea. I'd like to use the
- <ability to distinguish which line the incoming call is on in order
- <to make the voice/fax/data decision.
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- We helped ZyXEL develop the Distinctive Ring feature.
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- The feature already supports the ability to tell you which ring
- you are getting.
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- The idea is that if you select only one type of ring, which
- could include the regular ring, you only get the RING indicator
- for the selected ring, and s0/s1 only works on the number of
- distinctive rings received for this type of ring.
- This has the advantage that it will work with most any program
- on most any system,
- because the program just does not know the phone is ringing
- unless it is the selected ring, and if it is the selected ring
- the modem acts as if it is the only ring.
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- However, if you select multiple rings (up to 4), it tells you
- which RING you are getting. You get RING for the regular
- ring; RING 1 for each double ring; RING 2 and RING 3 for each
- other rings. Of course this is very useful for voice mail
- applications, logging Caller ids etc. Thus you need no extra
- registers, etc .
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- I find that I also use it with CALL RETURN here in Canada. When the computer
- calls a bbs that is busy, the computer can set
- CALL RETURN and answer in originate
- mode if a RING 2. That way the line is not tied up. Then there
- are the call forward applications ...
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- NET NET, do an ATS40=120 and you will be in business.
- (may want to save in profile 0 at&w0).
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- Another aside-- Distinctive rings in the real world (north america)
- often bear little resemblance to the distinctive rings specified
- in Bellcore documents. The ZyXEL does well for rings in either world.
- Final aside-- if the phone is manually answered in mid distinctive ring,
- (woops excuse me I do go on sometimes).
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- NON DISCLAMER: I work for a company OCOMP that supports/supplies
- ZyXEL modems /etc( Callerid,voice,upgrades ) outside the US
- (esp Canada)
- gvb@telly.on.ca 416 5341508.
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