How to connect a phone to fax, caller id, and digital answering machine?
Does anyone know what the correct way to connect a phone to a digital answering machine, caller id & a fax machine. It seems the current configuration the fax doesn’t recognize a fax coming through and the digital answering machine stopped picking up and calls are going through to the voicemail on the phone.
This is a landline.
Thanks for all your help in advance.
Tagged with: amp • caller id • digital answering machine • fax machine • voicemail
Filed under: internet faxing
if you want to use the fax for voice and fax calls you will need to connect it the following way…
JACK plugs into the line side of the CID box
from the phone port of the CID box plug into the FAX line port
from the FAX phone port plug the line of the ANSWERING MACHINE
from the ANSWERING MACHINE phone port plug in the phone
then go into the fax menu and set it for TEL/FAX
when the phone rings, the CID box will pick up the CID data (the fax should have a CID screen though, so you may not need the CID box)
the fax will pick up the line and determine if it is a voice or fax call, if it is a fax, the fax will receive the fax, if it is a voice call, then it will ring the phone connected to the fax machine, if the phone is not answered, the answering machine will pick up the call…
if you do not want the voice mail to answer the call, you should either cancel voice mail, or call your phone provider, and have them set the amount of rings that the voice mail picks up longer… (I would set the answering machine to 4 rings, and have the VM set to 6 rings)