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Harriett Wright
When I got a cable connection I disconnected my second phone line. However,
the service comes with a certain amount of dial up access, which I thought I
could use to send and receive faxes, so I installed Microsoft Fax and hooked
my computer up to my regular phone line. It seems to work OK for sending a
fax, but I had to disable the receive function, because it tried to answer
all my regular incoming phone calls. I would pick up the phone and my
conversation would be immediately interrupted by that awful fax-answering
noise. The fax monitor would then report: "ringing" . . . "ringing" . . .
"the call was answered" . . . "an error occurred while receiving the fax."
Is there some way to configure the thing so it will quietly answer calls
sent by a fax device and pop them into a folder without ringing my phone?
Thanks,
Harriett
the service comes with a certain amount of dial up access, which I thought I
could use to send and receive faxes, so I installed Microsoft Fax and hooked
my computer up to my regular phone line. It seems to work OK for sending a
fax, but I had to disable the receive function, because it tried to answer
all my regular incoming phone calls. I would pick up the phone and my
conversation would be immediately interrupted by that awful fax-answering
noise. The fax monitor would then report: "ringing" . . . "ringing" . . .
"the call was answered" . . . "an error occurred while receiving the fax."
Is there some way to configure the thing so it will quietly answer calls
sent by a fax device and pop them into a folder without ringing my phone?
Thanks,
Harriett