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From: buck@siswat.lonestar.org (Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: looking for a ring director
Message-ID: <1991May20.141621.4207@siswat.lonestar.org>
Date: 20 May 91 14:16:21 GMT
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The new distinctive ringing phone service became available in Houston
in April and I had it installed at home, but I am having a terrible
time finding any ring director that can use it.  Distinctive ringing
is where software in the switch allows one physical line to have
several phone numbers.  The different phone numbers have different
ringing patterns.  The normal ring is long.  My two new numbers ring
as short-long-short and short-short.  A ring director is a box
that listens for each ring type and routes the call to a separate
output jack.  This way, the same physical line can share an answering
machine, a fax machine, and an incoming modem.  I am paying a total
of $6 more per month for two extra phone numbers.  Installation was
$2.75.

This is all great, except I can't find any ring directors!  The
phone company tells me they can't recommend any equipment.  I
saved a company name from John Dvorak's PC Mag column six months ago,
but have lost that now.  Hello, Direct, the phone equipment
mail order house, sells a $99 ring director that handles two numbers,
normal and long-long, which is useless for me.  Prometheus Products
tells me they plan on having their ring director for sale in about
60 days.  My cousin sells fax machines and portable phones here in
Houston, and all his contacts have come up dry.

Can anyone supply me with a list of companies that make ring directors?
I need one that handles three patterns, including short-long-short
and short-short.

Thanks alot!

-- 
A. Lester Buck    buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!uhnix1!lobster!siswat!buck