Re: 56K dial up as back up


"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:31:18 +0100, "Martin Underwood" <news@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>I don't know enough about Home Highway to know whether a modem or
>>fax machine should work over its POTS socket
>
> it should, that's the whole point. however if both channels are in use
> by a PC or ISDN TA then the analogue sockets can't make calls.
>
> Similarly one ISDN data channel and one analogue call use up the
> capacity and the other socket is then effectively useless until one of
> the two channels is freed up.
>

Yes but I can make an ordinary phone call over the ISDN, disconnect that
phone then try the modem and it gets:

1.. No dial tone if wait for dial tone is selected in modem properties or

2. Engaged tone if not selected.


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