[AT] OT Need FAX Machine Advice

[Spencer Yost]

First, if you haven't bought a fax machine in a while, you should know the
new ones won't pick up if a fax machine isn't on the other end and they
will pick up if they do hear a fax machine (they can detect the sound even
though your phone is still ringing).  A fax-phone-modem director/switch is
the answer if you do have a dumb fax.   This little device listens on the
phone line for the tell-tale sounds of a fax(like the newer faxes) or a
modem call and routes to the device based on what it hears.   If it hears
nothing, it assumes a voice call and sends it to the phone.

http://www.pagecomputers.com/cgi-bin/page/S0106240.html

This is just an example that I don't represent as a great or wonderful -
There are a many others on the market.   Shop around as it has been so long
since I have purchased one.

Spencer

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On 9/27/2004 at 9:22 PM Edward Tabor wrote:

>I'm setting up a home office for my new job and I am having fax 
>troubles.  In the past, to get a fax, I'd need to turn off the answering 
>machine and turn the fax on to "answer."  After getting the fax, I had 
>to turn the answer off on the fax machine or else, while speaking on the 
>phone, the fax would pick up and start with it's whistling, thus 
>interrupting our conversation.
>
> How can I make it so the fax will pick up with a fax and the answering 
>machine will pick up with a voice call.  Hopefully the list can help.
>
>
>
>Ed 
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