Distinctive Ring

[Arthur]

Why does distinctive ring not work on windows XP

[Cerridwen]

Arthur wrote:
> Why does distinctive ring not work on windows XP

Because it doesn't. No NT-based OS has EVER supported DR.

The workarounds below courtesy of Hal Hostetler [MVP]

These third party hardware devices can provide a work-around to the lack of
Distinctive Ring support:

http://www.youcansave.com/switchboard.html
Emerson Switchboard
http://www.command-comm.com/phone_line_products.html
ComSwitch®