Telephone Service for Australia

Distinctive Ring

Distinctive Ring 1 is a function of your Brother machine that allows a person with one line to receive fax and voice calls through two different phone numbers on that one line.

Brother uses the term “Distinctive Ring”, but telephone companies market the service under a variety of names. This service establishes a second telephone number on the same line as your existing telephone number, and each number has its own ring pattern. Typically, the original number rings with the standard ring pattern and is used for receiving voice calls, and the second number rings with a different ring pattern and is used for receiving faxes. Only one call can be answered (or made) at any one time and while this call is in progress, incoming calls to either number will be presented with a busy tone.

Note

1Contact your Telephone Service Provider to determine availability and any other related details.

After you have set the Distinctive Ring feature to On, the receive mode is set to Manual automatically. Your Distinctive Ring Number does not allow Voice calls - only Faxes. You can not change the receive mode from Manual mode while the Distinctive Ring is set to on.

Telephone and external devices

How does your telephone company's “Distinctive Ring” service work?

Using “Distinctive Ring” service of your

 

telephone company is the most efficient way

 

to receive both fax and telephone calls on the

 

same line. When the voice call comes in, all

 

phones (extension and external) and the fax

 

machine will ring to alert you to pick it up. If a

 

fax call comes in, the fax machine will answer

 

automatically without ringing, whereas the

 

extension and external phones will ring twice

 

with a Distinctive Ring pattern. It is also a

 

more efficient way of operating a Fax

 

machine with an extension phone as you do

 

not have to use the remote activation codes.

 

It gives you two independent numbers

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without the higher cost of a second line.

Flowchart Sequence of Incoming call

Incoming Call

(either Voice or Fax)

All extension telephones ring twice, fax machine is silent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registered

 

 

 

Main number

Fax

 

 

 

Number

 

 

 

(Voice Number)

 

 

 

 

 

Fax machine

 

 

Fax machine

 

 

automatically

 

 

begins ringing

 

 

receives and prints

 

 

on third ring.

 

 

fax message

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

without ringing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You answer the call

 

 

Telephone Answering

 

at an external

 

 

 

Device (TAD)

 

telephone or an

 

 

 

answers the call.

 

extension telephone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What does Brother's “DistinctiveRing” do?

The Brother machine has a Distinctive Ring 1 feature that allows you to use your machine to take full advantage of the telephone company's Distinctive Ring service. The new telephone number on your line can just receive faxes.

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