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Skriven 2010-07-16 07:45:32 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
   Kommentar till text 9309 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555.1)
Ärende: Cellphone woes
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Thursday July 15 2010 at 16:22:

[Dictinctive ring]
RB>> News to me, but I'm in Germany. Maybe we don't have such stuff.

MV> My POTS mailer (Intermail) has a menu to select what ring pattern it
MV> should respond to.

Not sure what you mean here. I use CantaLoup and when it gets a fax signal, it
exits for Frec to receive a fax. But that's all I'm familiar with.

My understanding of the subject was that you and the others were talking about
actual audible ring tones or melodies that a person was supposed to distinguish
and thereby determine who was calling. I couldn't and can't imagine such a
system, assuming it really exists, would be practical for more than 2-3
callers.

MV>>> Euro ISDN offers up to eight numbers on an ISDN/2 line.

RB>> Ten here, final digits zero to nine. Three are standard, but you can
RB>> get up to 10 if you're willing to pay additionally.

MV> So you get a block of sequential numbers?

At least when I got ISDN, sometime in the late 1990s, that was the case.

MV> Here that was abodonned because when knowing one number, one can guess
MV> the others. Now the numbers are "random".

Probably a good idea, but harder for the line owner (you, me) to work with too.

JG>>>> Another use is you assign the BBS a phone number, the fax machine a
JG>>>> number, and another number for voice calls.

RB>> Which is precisely what I have, except that you can send a fax to my
RB>> BBS number and Harald Pollack's FREC will receive it. I also use
RB>> another number for outgoing faxes, but only rarely.

MV> Of course. One of the nicer features of ISDN. You could also assign
MV> one of the numbers to your wife.

Unfortunately, I have a problem there. My phone connection box is in the
cellar, and I have only four wires from there to my office on the second floor,
where all the equipment is.

I use two wires to bring the ISDN/DSL signals up to the office, where I have
the NTBA, splitter and TK system (ISDN to analog converter). Then I can only
send one analog line (two wires) down to the cellar to be connected to the line
for the phones in the living room and cellar.

If I had more than only four wires from the office to the cellar connection
box, I could be much more flexible, but unfortunately there's no way I can
change the situation without fairly massive work on the house, which I have
never wanted to do. This would originally (1984) not have been a big deal, as I
was remodelling the house and everything was being changed, but at that time I
unfortunately didn't realize how the situation would change and then the time
for simple solutions had passed.

[P.S. to those who don't know my house and have problems understanding the
above - the house is solid masonry and old, so there is little chance of laying
additional wires without tearing up the walls. The floors are all reinforced
concrete and the metal would block any radio signal, so a WLAN solution - maybe
a theoretical possibility - would also be impracticable.]

MV>>> Yep. But I do not think that is what Roy meant. I think he meant
MV>>> different ringtone depending oin the number of the caller.

RB>> That's what I also thought, but still have never heard of this from
RB>> anyone else, nor do I know how you'd remember more than 2-3 ring
RB>> tones for specific callers. It would not seem very practical to me.

MV> I have programmed a different ring tone for when Rosa calls, but she
MV> does not call often enough to even remember that one different ring
MV> tone.

Is that on the cellphone or the house phone? If it's the cellphone, is this the
Nokia 1650 you mentioned? I have one of these too, and would like to take a
look at this.

Cheers, Bob

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