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- From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.185858.818@blurt.oswego.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:58:58 GMT
- References: <oqByTB1w165w@halcyon.com> <22274@drutx.ATT.COM> <JON_SREE.92Nov11081440@world.std.com>
- Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <JON_SREE.92Nov11081440@world.std.com>, jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) writes:
- > <1992Nov10.123457.788@blurt.oswego.edu>
- > Sender: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth)
- > Organization: The World
- > Lines: 25
- > In-Reply-To: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 12:34:57 GMT
- >
- > In article <1992Nov10.123457.788@blurt.oswego.edu> mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY) writes:
- >
- >
- > When an incoming ring is detected it listens for a CNG tone over the rings.
- > If one is detected the call is routed to the FAX. Otherwise it "picks up"
- > the line to listen for a modem. The modem must be originating in answer
- > mode so it signals immediately upon answering. During this time a pseudo
- > ring is sent back, I believe this is so the phone company does not consider
- > the call completed in case you never do get through. If a modem is not
- > detected, on what would be the fourth ring, the call is passed through to
- > the phone (voice) line.
- >
- > Don't think this is quite accurate. You can't get CNG (or any other
- > intelligence, except caller-id) until you go off hook. After going offhook,
- > regardless of whether you send fake ringback or not, the phone company
- > starts billing. The fake ringback is mostly intended to keep human
- > callers or modems happy during the time the fax switch is checking for
- > tones. A human caller would be confused by just silence, and a modem
- > would miss the ringback cadence and might hangup.
- >
- > / Jon Sreekanth
- >
- > Assabet Valley Microsystems, Inc. | Fax and PC products
- > 5 Walden St #3, Cambridge, MA 02140 | (617) 876-8019
- > jon_sree@world.std.com |
-
- If you transmit your fax in auto mode the tones are sent between rings. Try
- keeping the speaker on the next time you send a fax and you will hear them.
- If you use manual mode you dial first then press send after the receiving
- unit picks up there will be no tone until you hit send.
-
- Allen Mulvey
- mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
-