Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 23:32:26 GMT From: "Michael P. Deignan" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Is There a Selective Ringing Blocker? Message-ID: Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917 Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 277, Message 8 of 9 Lines: 53 tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes: > This is why there is a "normal" output ... that is the one you > hook your telephone to, and it only rings when someone dials > your "normal" phone number. Maybe I'm confusing the issue here. In my area, you can have three phone numbers ring at the same locale: NET Gives Me: I use it for: -------------------- --------------- a. Short-Short ring -> fax b. Normal ring -> dial-in modem c. Long ring -> voice Of course, I can switch the [b] and [c] usage around if need be. However, Hello's device only allows you to split [a] and [b]. Now, I've also got [c] ringing ... But, since Hello only splits the line twice, I have to split the line coming from the wall ... ie: /-- fax (short-short) /----> hello direct box --- wall -- 2-in-one splitter \-- modem (normal) \----> voice phone (long) So ... regardless of which ring I'm actually getting, the phone will ring. Very annoying, especially if it is three in the morning, and it is just a fax. What I need to do is "block" the phone from ringing unless its a "long" ring. Or, I could use a three-way call director, if anyone has one of those. The above setup is tenative, so I can always play around with it more (ie: make the "voice" the short-short if I really had to.) But, that in itself makes more problems. I COULD switch the modem and the voice phone, but then the modem will "answer" the phone unless I get to the phone in time, since the modem just detects a ring and picks up as needed. That's why I've got the fax and modem on the ring detector, so the wrong device won't pick up. Clearer, or did I just make it more confusing? Michael P. Deignan Domain: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com UUCP: ...!uunet!rayssd!anomaly!mpd Telebit: +1 401 455 0347