Using many modems

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Oliver,

You need one phone line for each modem.  If you want them
to answer on the "same" number, tell your phone service you
want "hunting".  With hunting, if a phone line is busy, an
incoming call will be routed to the next line in the "hunt"
group.

Stan

> To: mgetty@muc.de
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:16:16 +0100
> From: Oliver Sturm <sturm@ost1.ping.de>
> Subject: Using many modems
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a problem when trying to use several modems (even only two) which
> answer to the same number. I want someone to be able to call that number
> and any modem to take the call. 
>
> Problem is the following: If I have two modems answering the call after
> the first ring, the modems kind of collide. The effect is (according to
> log-files), that both modems answer the call simultaniously, one of them
> does the synchronisation with the other end, the the _other_ modem gets
> to receive the incoming fax. (?????)
> I have logfiles to document this (unwanted?) behaviour. 
>
> Now, my quick and dirty sollution was to set different ring-counts for
> the two modems, but as I need to add more modems (up to twenty or so), I
> can't go on adding one to the ring-count for each modem. 
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Oliver
> -- 
> MfG, 
>
> Oliver Sturm
>
> <sturm@ost1.ping.de>