Re: [hylafax-users] Sharing phone line with other fax machine?

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2005.09.21 21:57 schrieb(en) Jerry Kaidor:

> Can two fax machines share the same phone line?  I'm delighted to
> have hylafax running on my linux box
[...]
> But I still use the fax machine on the Windows side a lot.
> Never at the same time, though.

Hello Jerry,

there are simple electronic switches that are intended to connect two  
phones to one line. Both phones will ring and the first to pick up will  
get the line. When you pick up either of the two phones the other one  
will be dead.

The other possibility is a modem that has two connectors: one for the  
line and the other for a phone, but check that the modem disconnects  
the phone when it wants to use the line.


Bodo

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