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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: HELP - modem drops carrier when extention off hooks
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 17:39:26 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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- Message-ID: <00963675.73562F60@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- References: <1992Nov10.011052.7791@nosc.mil>
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- In article <1992Nov10.011052.7791@nosc.mil>, medin@manta.nosc.mil (Ted Medin) writes:
- >
- > Well the title says it all (i think). I have fooled with s10 but no
- >banana :-(. Didnt have this problem with the multitech 2400 but now the
- >viva 14.4 drops carrier when a phone extention goes off hook.
- > Any ideas?
-
- You can purchase from Radio Shack, Target, etc., a device intended for use
- with answering machines. The original use was to cut off the answering
- machine if you picked up any telephone after the machine had already
- answered the call. In this case, you need one on each telephone that
- causes problems, and it will cut the telephone off if the modem (or any
- other phone, for that matter) is already using the line.
-
- Another option is to wire the phone "downstream" of the modem. That
- assumes that your modem has a telephone jack that is disconnected when
- the modem has the line off-hook. Some modems have a phone jack that is
- just in parallel with the input jack, and will not work in this regard.
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