Farallon Communications 612, 412 manual Using the analog device ports

Advanced Features 6-11

Using the analog device ports

If you have analog touch-tone telephones, answering machines, fax machines, external analog modems, or other analog telephone devices, you can connect them to the two RJ-11 modular jacks on the Netopia ISDN Modem. The two ports are located above the telephone icon on the back panel of the ISDN modem.

The Netopia ISDN Modem does not support pulse-dialing (rotary) telephones.

To place an analog call, simply take the telephone handset or external fax machine off the hook, wait for a dial tone, and dial the destination telephone number. Similarly, to use an analog modem, connect the analog modem to one of the analog device ports and use the modem the same way as if it were connected to a regular phone line. See the next section for information about receiving analog calls.

Note: The Netopia ISDN Modem is designed to operate with telephones that are compatible with the original AT&T 2500 touch-tone telephone standard. You may operate up to three compatible touch-tone devices per analog device port using modular telephone cable of up to 200 feet in length. Although the ISDN modem may function satisfactorily at longer cable distances with more than two attached telephones, proper operation at longer cable distances is not guaranteed in all situations.

Some telephone equipment, most notably speaker phones that draw large amounts of power, may not work at all on the ISDN modem’s analog device ports. These devices do not conform to the power specification of the AT&T 2500 touch-tone telephone standard, and their operation is not guaranteed.