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Why this is useful & answer to the faxing problem
I've used it mainly when I am behind a telephone system requiring a nine (or something else) as the first number. Using a comma or other separators never worked for me (the computer did not manage to dial). For it to work you need a dual connection or a distributer to have both the computer and the phone from which you are dialing plugged in at the same time.
Why this is useful & answer to the faxing problem
When I'm travelling and in a hotel I've always used the Internet Connect application to connect back to my home ISP. But to avoid the exorbitant charges of the hotel longdistance, I first dial on the hotel phone with GlobalCall or some other cheap long distance card, enter my account and PIN numbers, then I hit the connect button on the Internet Connect and when I hear the click of the modem connecting I hang up the phone. The modem dials then to my ISP and I pay the low charges of my GlobalCall card. You have to turn off the modem preference for waiting for dial tone to make this work. And you have to carefully check how the dataport of the hotel phone works - sometimes they use 2 separate lines and you must know which line you are on or this technique fails. Most newer hotels use two line phones and the dataport is always on line 2. Some still use a phone that has one line for the dialing and the data port is on a second line you cannot access for dialing from the phone.
Why this is useful & answer to the faxing problem
To get around this 2 separate lines problem, you can buy a small connector which splits up at telephone line into two connections, to use it you also need one or two (depending on the connector) telephone cables. |
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