dspeed@sactoh0.uucp (Dave L. Speed) (05/26/89)
I'm experiencing a lot of demand on my "home" phone line; home phones, home
office phone, answering machine, modem(s), and a fax machine. In addition,
I'm besieged with telephone solicitations. With today's use of
telecommunications, I don't think I'm alone in this situation.
One solution might be a home PBX, where a caller gets a second "dial-tone"
and selects the proper internal line with a touch-tone code (perhaps with a
10 second wait default to the answering machine line). This and roll-over on
busy from outside line A to outside line B would go a long way towards
congestion relief.
I've seen only two "home" type PBX systems advertised so far; one from Nutone
in the $1200 range and one from Toshiba in the $400 range. I have requested
literature on both; that which was sent to me was inadequate to make any
rational decision. Would either of these offer a realistic solution? Are there
other systems available? Are they compatible with modems (both 2400 baud
and/or Telebits? Are they compatible with (common) fax systems? Are they
reliable? What necessary questions am I not asking?
Dave Speed (dspeed) : "Don't Crush That Dwarf, :
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