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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: fax/phone switch
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:24:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.192446.4221@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <oqByTB1w165w@halcyon.com> <22274@drutx.ATT.COM>
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- In article <22274@drutx.ATT.COM> dfh@dwroll.att.com writes:
- >From article <oqByTB1w165w@halcyon.com>, by puma@halcyon.com (puma):
- >One statement in the ad made me a bit leary. It was talking about
- >using the answering machine. It said something to the effect of:
- >"You just leave 3-4 seconds of silence at the start of your answering
- >machine message ..." It sounds like the fax switch may tend to get
- >confused when trying to pick out fax tone mixed with conversation.
- >Does this also mean that when you answer the phone you must wait
- >3-4 seconds before saying "hello"? If so, the thing's not very
- >useful in my opinion.
-
- That's it. These suck, and do not switch reliably. For My app, I have
- a modem on the phone and fax on the fax port, so the modem must pick up
- after 2 or 3 rings if a fax tone is not detected. These type of
- switches to not work at all for my configuration.
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