Hello there Bill ....



 BG> Randall, at 14:15 on Nov 08 1996, you wrote to Bill

 BG> Grimsley...



BG>> NetComm are still paying off their marble staircase then,

BG>> are they? One can buy two perfectly usable Taiwanese Rockwell

BG>> 33k6 clones for that amount, and still have enough cash left over

BG>> to buy a 4X CD-ROM drive, or whatever...



RL>> The "perfectly usable" taiwanese clones don't have the

RL>> Netcomm faxswitching capabilities but,



 BG> It seems that every cloud has a silver lining after all... :)



Tch, Tch...



RL>> thereby negating their usefulness on a single line that is

RL>> used for data/fax/voice. Works too!!



 BG> Not sure what you're trying to say here, but with the KTX



The things can differentiate 'tween data/fax/voice. IOW you can hook an

answering machine to one and it will auto switch to fax if needed.



 BG> (GVC) modems, fax Tx and Rx works just fine in both Class 1 and

 BG> Class 2 modes. However, if you're talking about incoming call

 BG> discrimination between fax, data and voice though, that's a

 BG> completely different kettle of fish. The fax side isn't a problem

 BG> due to the CNG tones, but what about discriminating between data

 BG> and voice? There are no tones in originate mode, so how does the

 BG> modem know whether the incoming call is data or voice?



Not sure, mayhaps they take no sound as data. I'll look it up and find

out. They do warn that the V8 calling tones do set off the fax answer so

it's not that.



 BG> Might be about time to standardise on CNG tones for fax, V.8

 BG> CI tones for data, and simple, stony cold silence for voice...



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