Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Dave Levenson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Diverters Message-ID: <10707@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 23:23:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 559, Message 3 of 12 In article <10671@accuvax.nwu.edu>, contact!djcl@uunet.uu.net (woody) writes: > I recently purchased a ASAP TF 505 telephone diverter for under > $200.00 this device allows for up t5 different devices to be hooked up > to one incoming line. As an example you can hook up a FAX, Modem, > answering machine, and two telephones to the diverter. When you call > into the diverter it answers and gives the caller a false ringing, > while its looks for a FAX CNG signal or a reverse modem detection (I > have not tried these yet). If it detects these it then diverts the > call to the modem or the fax. What in the world is "reverse modem detection"? The originating modem remains silent, expecting answer-tone from the answering modem? Does this box route silent callers to its modem port? Or does it only work with some non-standard modems that make noise while awaiting answer? As far as I know, some fax machines, in some originating modes, generate the CNG tone when they're awaiting answer. I know of no non-fax modems that would work with the device described above. Could somebody enlighten me? Dave Levenson Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857 Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave Warren, NJ, USA AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave