buck@siswat.lonestar.org (Lester Buck) (05/20/91)
The new distinctive ringing phone service became available in Houston in April and I had it installed at home, but I am having a terrible time finding any ring director that can use it. Distinctive ringing is where software in the switch allows one physical line to have several phone numbers. The different phone numbers have different ringing patterns. The normal ring is long. My two new numbers ring as short-long-short and short-short. A ring director is a box that listens for each ring type and routes the call to a separate output jack. This way, the same physical line can share an answering machine, a fax machine, and an incoming modem. I am paying a total of $6 more per month for two extra phone numbers. Installation was $2.75. This is all great, except I can't find any ring directors! The phone company tells me they can't recommend any equipment. I saved a company name from John Dvorak's PC Mag column six months ago, but have lost that now. Hello, Direct, the phone equipment mail order house, sells a $99 ring director that handles two numbers, normal and long-long, which is useless for me. Prometheus Products tells me they plan on having their ring director for sale in about 60 days. My cousin sells fax machines and portable phones here in Houston, and all his contacts have come up dry. Can anyone supply me with a list of companies that make ring directors? I need one that handles three patterns, including short-long-short and short-short. Thanks alot! -- A. Lester Buck buck@siswat.lonestar.org ...!uhnix1!lobster!siswat!buck
davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) (05/21/91)
buck@siswat.lonestar.org (Lester Buck) writes: > The new distinctive ringing phone service became available in Houston > in April and I had it installed at home, but I am having a terrible > time finding any ring director that can use it. Distinctive ringing I have a piece of equipment that will, they say, detect the rings but there isn't any ring phone service here..... Contact: Doug MacGibbon Viking International 2724 Summer Street N.E. Minneapolis, MN 55413 U.S.A. Tel: +1-612-331-3823 Fax: +1-612-331-3180 Hope that helps, Dave -- Dave McLane <davidg%aegis.or.jp> JUNET <davidg%aegis.or.kyoto-u.ac.jp> INTERNET <davidg%aegis.or.jp@jpnkyoto.kyoto-u.ac.jp> BITNET <davidg%aegis.or.jp%kyoto-u.ac.jp@uunet.uu.net> UUNET ==== The Aegis Society ============================================= Minami Hirao 1-6, Imazato The content and process of Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu, 617 Japan international/cultural Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087 communication. ==================================================================== -- Dave McLane <davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp>
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (05/24/91)
In article <1991May20.141621.4207@siswat.lonestar.org> buck@siswat.lonestar.org (Lester Buck) writes: >The new distinctive ringing phone service became available in Houston >in April and I had it installed at home, but I am having a terrible >time finding any ring director that can use it. ... >I am paying a total of $6 more per month for two extra phone numbers. Gee, here in Massachusetts, I'm only paying $5. To split out the three phone numbers, I have an Autoline Plus from ITS of Endicott NY, phone 607 754 6310, which cost $82.79 plus $1.78 shipping. It has a short cord with an RJ-11 plug that plugs into the phone line, and three RJ-11 sockets for the three devices. I use it to split out voice (phone and answering machine,) modem, and fax. It works like a charm. It also handles contention on outgoing calls. If the line is in use by one device, the others are shut off until the first one is done. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl Cheap oil is an oxymoron.