gst@spdcc.com (Gary Trujillo) (02/06/90)
I am trying to provide technical assistance to the Boston Earth Day
organizing office, and have run into a snag. I would like to make it
possible for these folks to get hooked up to EcoNet. The problem is
that they have a Merlin phone system, and their New England Telephone
Company rep tells them that they need a dedicated line for the
purpose. When I questioned them further about tapping off of one line
of their multi-line phone system, I was told that the problem is that
these lines are in a hunt-sequence. I believe this fact to represent
a non-problem, given that all they want to do is to call out for maybe
an hour every couple of days, and the hunt gizmo would just hunt
around the line being used with a modem, just like it would if the
line were busy for a voice call. When pressed further, they say that
well, yeah, there is some way of using an individual line off of the
Merlin system, but it requires special equipment, and that costs
money, which they aren't willing to spend.
I'm having a hard time believing the problem to be this difficult.
There must be some easy way to use an individual line for a modem
short of paying an arm-and-a-leg for some Merlin-to-RJ11 adapter, or
whatever it is.
Any suggestions?
Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts {wjh12,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst