Re: Multi-line Telephone and Modem Usage:

["Michael J. Yanowitz" <yanowitz stereotaxis wustl edu>]

Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:

> J MacCraw wrote:
> > Plug a standard, single line phone into the modem, then plug the modem into
> > the L2 jack on spitter. Do you get tone on the phone through the modem?
>
>      I will try tonight, but I believe I do, as I think I tried this, but I'm
> not
> certain. I'll send a message to correct myself if I don't.

   Any phone connected through the modem works fine.

    By the way, I have a solution, but I don't like it too much, but it'll work,
All I need to do is since I have Call Forwarding and my modem likes Line 1
is to forward my Line 1 calls to Line 2, and use my modem on Line 1.

>
>
> > Wall jacks are wired in pairs, Red/Green for L1 (Tip/Ring), and
> > Black/Yellow for L2. Take the black/yellow pair and run it to the Red/Green
> > terminals of an empty Rj-45 wall box (about $5 from RS) and see if plugging
> > a single line phone into the new jack through the modem gets you tone from
> > L2. If so, mount the wall box and plug into it for L2.
>
>   I'll look into this this weekend, and get back to you if I make any progress.

> > There really isn't much too this, and 3com is one of the better brands, so
> > I doubt it's a 3com problem. All modems (unless it's a 2-line modem like
> > the SupraSonic II) only see L1 (Green/Red, Tip/Ring). I personally have my
> > lines run as L1/L2 to 1 jack and L2/L1 to another so that any single line
> > device can be plugged into L1 or L2 depending on the wall jack I pick.
>
>     That's what I figured. A 3Com and external should have caused me thefewest
> problems and work well with Linux as well as Windows95.
>     I know that my jack presently has Line 1 and Line 2 combined and I need
> the splitter to get Line 1 or Line 2 separated. I thought (or was hoping) that
> I can add a device that would treat the split lines as separate jacks, or some
> "AT" command that I can send to the modem to have it use L2, without
> having to rewire my phone jacks.
>   My other modems (though slower) did not have this problem.
>
> >


Michael J. Yanowitz

May 1, 1999