MS Fax Console using Distinctive Ring

[dJohn]

OS: Windows XP Media Center.
Using: Microsoft Fax Console Version 5.1
Modem: Agere Win Modem (internal; COM3)
Issue: I have one phone line with three distinctive rings. Can I configure
the fax console to only answer the double ring?
If so, how?
If not, what alternative do you recommend?

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Xp does not support distinctive ring..
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272943

For more on third party solutions, look at this one..

http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dring.asp

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept
it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland


"dJohn" > wrote in message
...
> OS: Windows XP Media Center.
> Using: Microsoft Fax Console Version 5.1
> Modem: Agere Win Modem (internal; COM3)
> Issue: I have one phone line with three distinctive rings. Can I configure
> the fax console to only answer the double ring?
> If so, how?
> If not, what alternative do you recommend?

[dJohn]

I'm so tired and fed up with Microsoft upgrading stuff and leaving features
out from the new version that they had in the old. Yesterday I learned that
Publisher 2003 doesn't handle external files when publishing to a website
(version 2000 did!).
Now this!
I appreciate your links to the "modemsite" article explaining how to rewrite
the .inf file to accommodate ringmaster. But why doesn't MS simply fix the
problem and release an updated driver?

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Xp does not support distinctive ring..
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272943
>
> For more on third party solutions, look at this one..
>
> http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dring.asp
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
> "If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept
> it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
>
>
> "dJohn" > wrote in message
> ...
> > OS: Windows XP Media Center.
> > Using: Microsoft Fax Console Version 5.1
> > Modem: Agere Win Modem (internal; COM3)
> > Issue: I have one phone line with three distinctive rings. Can I configure
> > the fax console to only answer the double ring?
> > If so, how?
> > If not, what alternative do you recommend?
>
>
>

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

If you contact the modem manufacturer or look on the installation CD
supplied with it, there may be a program that will allow distinctive ring
with XP.. BVRP software supplied with US Robotics modems, and others
presumably, will allow it..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept
it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland


"dJohn" > wrote in message
...
> I'm so tired and fed up with Microsoft upgrading stuff and leaving
> features
> out from the new version that they had in the old. Yesterday I learned
> that
> Publisher 2003 doesn't handle external files when publishing to a website
> (version 2000 did!).
> Now this!
> I appreciate your links to the "modemsite" article explaining how to
> rewrite
> the .inf file to accommodate ringmaster. But why doesn't MS simply fix the
> problem and release an updated driver?
>
> "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Xp does not support distinctive ring..
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272943
>>
>> For more on third party solutions, look at this one..
>>
>> http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dring.asp
>>
>> --
>> Mike Hall
>> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>>
>> "If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have
>> kept
>> it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
>>
>>
>> "dJohn" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > OS: Windows XP Media Center.
>> > Using: Microsoft Fax Console Version 5.1
>> > Modem: Agere Win Modem (internal; COM3)
>> > Issue: I have one phone line with three distinctive rings. Can I
>> > configure
>> > the fax console to only answer the double ring?
>> > If so, how?
>> > If not, what alternative do you recommend?
>>
>>
>>

[Hal Hostetler [MVP-S/U]]

There are several commercial Fax packages that have their own Distinctive
Ring support, overcoming the TAPI service limitation:

http://www.faxtalk.com/
FaxTalk Messenger Pro
www.pigeonline.com
Pigeon Mail n Fax

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-S/U -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

"dJohn" > wrote in message
...
> I'm so tired and fed up with Microsoft upgrading stuff and leaving
> features
> out from the new version that they had in the old. Yesterday I learned
> that
> Publisher 2003 doesn't handle external files when publishing to a website
> (version 2000 did!).
> Now this!
> I appreciate your links to the "modemsite" article explaining how to
> rewrite
> the .inf file to accommodate ringmaster. But why doesn't MS simply fix the
> problem and release an updated driver?
>
> "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Xp does not support distinctive ring..
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272943
>>
>> For more on third party solutions, look at this one..
>>
>> http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dring.asp
>>
>> --
>> Mike Hall
>> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>>
>> "If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have
>> kept
>> it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
>>
>>
>> "dJohn" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > OS: Windows XP Media Center.
>> > Using: Microsoft Fax Console Version 5.1
>> > Modem: Agere Win Modem (internal; COM3)
>> > Issue: I have one phone line with three distinctive rings. Can I
>> > configure
>> > the fax console to only answer the double ring?
>> > If so, how?
>> > If not, what alternative do you recommend?
>>
>>
>>