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• a person wanting to talk to you,
• a person sending a fax manually,
• a fax machine that does not produce CNG signals, or
• a person or computer trying to access the MODEM port.
If, after six (or however many you set—see Section 5.4.8) rings to the TAD
and PHONE ports, neither you nor your TAD have answered the call, the
ASD-4’s Automatic No-Answer Transfer feature routes the call to the FAX or
MODEM port. Once this feature has been triggered, the Automatic Ring
Reduction feature kicks in and the ASD-4 routes subsequent calls to the FAX
or MODEM port after the second ring.
NOTE
For unattended operation, set equipment connected to the ASD-4’s FAX
or MODEM port to answer on the first or second ring. For attended
operation, set the TAD to answer on five or fewer rings, or on fewer rings
than the Rings Available to the TAD and PHONE Ports (function [4][1]) if
you’ve set this to a number other than six.
There are two things to keep in mind when you set your TAD. First,
fax machines that don’t produce CNG tones might not be able to stay on
the line long enough to reach your fax if your TAD doesn’t answer the
line fairly quickly. Second, a certain problem is more likely to occur if
your TAD doesn’t answer quickly. If a caller hangs up just as the TAD
picks up the line, a second call comes in immediately, and the Automatic
No Answer Transfer feature is ON, the second caller might be transferred
to the FAX or MODEM port before your TAD can reset itself. Then, if the
Automatic Ring Reduction feature is also ON, future calls will be routed
to the FAX or MODEM port after only two rings. (For best results, turn
OFF Automatic No Answer Transfer and Automatic Ring Reduction
during attended operation.)
Any time after Automatic Ring Reduction has taken effect, you can reset the
TAD and PHONE ports’ ring count to six by doing any of these things:
• Lifting the receiver of the phone device connected to the TAD or
PHONE port and hanging it up.
• Answering a call at any phone on the ASD-4’s line before the call is routed
to the FAX or MODEM port.
• Placing an outbound call from any phone on the ASD-4’s line.
(See Sections 5.3.1 and 5.3.4 for more information about Automatic Ring
Reduction and Automatic TAD Transfer.)
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