Advanced Features
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Using the analog device ports
If you have analog touch-tone telephones, answering machines, fax
machines, external analog modems, or other analog telephone
devices, you can connect them to the two RJ-11 modular jacks on
the Netopia ISDN Modem. The two por ts are located above the
telephone icon on the back panel of the ISDN modem.
The Netopia ISDN Modem does not suppor t pulse-dialing (rotar y)
telephones.
To place an analog call, simply take the telephone handset or
external fax machine off the hook, wait for a dial tone, and dial the
destination telephone number. Similarly, to use an analog modem,
connect the analog modem to one of the analog device por ts and
use the modem the same way as if it were connected to a regular
phone line. See the next section for information about receiving
analog calls.
Note:
The Netopia ISDN Modem is designed to operate with
telephones that are compatible with the original AT&T 2500
touch-tone telephone standard. You may operate up to three
compatible touch-tone devices per analog device por t using modular
telephone cable of up to 200 feet in length. Although the ISDN
modem may function satisfactorily at longer cable distances with
more than two attached telephones, proper operation at longer
cable distances is not guaranteed in all situations.
Some telephone equipment, most notably speaker phones that
draw large amounts of power, may not work at all on the ISDN
modem’s analog device por ts. These devices do not conform to the
power specification of the AT&T 2500 touch-tone telephone
standard, and their operation is not guaranteed.
