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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > 
> > > You leave out the DT (dial with tones) from ATDT.
> > 
> > Do you also leave out the phone number?  Or phone yourself?
> 
> There is no phone involved (hence no phone number).  You 
> are connecting one modem directly to the other.  This is 
> easily done by using a standard phone line muliplexer 
> (you've probably already got one to let your modem and 
> phone share the same line).  Simply disconnect the multi-
> plexer from the phone line and plug in both modems.

By multiplexer do you mean a 'Y', a gadget that lets you plug in two phone 
cords into one phone outlet?

We plug the phone into the internal modem (where it says 'tel') and then 
run another cord from 'line' jack to the next computer modem
'tel' jack and then from there out the 'line' jack  to the fax-phone 
switch 'tel', and from there also to answering machine and fax machine.
No multiplexer needed unless you count the switch.

With the multiplexer, do I run from the modems' 'line' to both halves of 
the Y?  If so, why not just run the line between the two modems directly?  
I am probably misunderstanding here.

> I seem to recall that when I did this (several years ago) 
> one of the modems refused to do anything until it got a 
> dial tone.  So I briefly plugged the multiplexer into the
> phone jack to get that modem started.  This is all a vague
> memory, so no guarantees.

Would this method also work for testing phones without dialing out, 
running the two phone cords to a Y, plugging it in to get a dial tone, 
then unplugging it?  Or for testing fax machines?  We have been looking 
for some way to do this.  

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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