Re: elementay fax questions

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

"Tim Yang" <timyangcc@gmail.com> writes:

> 20 Jun 2007 09:33:30 -0400, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>:
> 
> > For incoming faxes, the fax-modem must obviously discriminate
> > between analog voice and digital fax so that the phone rings with
> > an incoming voice message and does not with a fax. Can I assume
> > this capability is now present in all fax-modems, whether an
> > external modem or an internal card?
> >
> 
> ... most faxmodems are not smart enough to know it is human voice or
> fax/modem signal.  They just assume the other sides are its peers
> and talk happily along.

Tim, thanks for the reply. My internal modem (ca '98) did distinguish
incoming signals, and although I paid more for it for that reason, I
assumed that such a simple technology would have by this time become
standard. Evidently not so.

Did the little set up scheme described in my initial query seem
workable?

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       Haines Brown, KB1GRM