Two modems on one line????

[Andrew Medico]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:05:50 +1300, Jim Cheetham <jim at egressive.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 16:49 -0500, A1ex wrote:
> > Would there be a problem if I had both modems connected to the same
> > phone line?  My thinking is that there are already other appliances
> > connected to that same phone line and there's no problem
> 
> In my experience (UK, NZ) the ringing signal generated at the local
> exchange is run in series through the attached phone devices - if you
> have too many attached simultaneously, it's possible that *none* of them
> would ring on an incoming call.

I think you mean parallel, but the result is the same - if you connect
too many devices to the same line, the ring signal won't be able to
ring them all. It won't hurt anything, though, and in this age of
powered phones and modems you can probably connect a lot more devices
than you could back in the days of mechanical bells.

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Andrew Medico <a.medico at gmail.com>