Making ConnectionsConnecting the Telephone Line and External Devices

Your unit has three jacks on the side for connection of the following:

Telephone line

Handset* or telephone

Extension phone (i.e. an additional telephone that you may wish to place away from your unit to answer calls from a different location), answering machine, or data modem.

If you only have one telephone line and plan to use your unit for receiving both faxes and voice calls, you will need to connect the handset, a telephone, or an answering machine to your unit.

Be sure to connect any external device before using your unit.

Follow this procedure to connect the telephone line and external devices:

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Connect the line

 

Connect the supplied Connect the line

 

 

telephone line to the from the handset or

 

from the extension

 

L jack, then telephoneconnectto the

 

phone, answering

 

the other endhjackof .the

 

machine, or data

 

line to the telephone

 

modem to the

 

jack on your wall.

 

jack.

Setting Up

*The handset is included with your unit for Australia and New Zealand, and is available as an option for Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Chapter 2

Setting Up

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