External Answering Machine - BELGACOM Belgafax 170S User Manual

v For this reason calls cannot be recorded by
be connected.
Manual fax reception
If you select MANUAL RECEPTION faxes will
not be automatically received by your fax machine
unless you activate fax reception yourself. Lift the
handset and press START/COPY. This may be
sensible for example, if you wish to receive your
faxes by modem at your computer.
External answering
machine
Connect your answering machine as described in
Installation / Additional devices.
To provide for the optimum performance of
an external answering machine, set this device
to ring once or twice. To avoid the automatic
acceptance of calls by the fax-switch, you must
set total RINGS and fax RINGS to a value
at least two ringing signals higher than the setting
of the external answering machine.
If you switch off the external answering machine,
calls are accepted by the fax-switch (see chapter
Set SM mode).
Settings example:
Answering machine rings
FAX RINGS
TOTAL RINGS
Tips:
The answering message of your answering ma-
chine should be shorter than ten seconds.
Please avoid music in your outgoing message.
If your fax machine is unable to recognise older
fax machine models, which do not transmit those
signals that are commonly used in today's tech-
nology, you should advise your callers in your
answering message to press * and 5 followed
by START/COPY to commence the fax recep-
tion.
If the automatic fax reception is impossible,
press START/COPY to manually begin recei-
ving the fax.
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any external answering machine which may
If your answering machine provides an "econo-
my function" (e.g. a function which changes the
number of ringing signals as soon as a message
was recorded), you should preferably switch this
function off.
It is possible that the answering machine not only
counts the messages received, but also the num-
ber of fax calls.
Please ensure that the code for starting the fax
reception from other telephones (factory setting
* and 5) is not the same as for remote access
to recorded messages. Where necessary the code
for function 34 may be changed (see Hints and
Tips / Easylink).
If your answering machine accepts the call but
your fax machine does not stop ringing, try to
install your answering machine by serial connec-
tion, for example by connecting it to the same
telephone socket or to the EXT socket of your
fax machine (see chapter Installation / Addi-
tional devices).
If your answering machine cannot accept calls,
your fax machine will automatically start to re-
ceive faxes after the number of ringing signals set
in TOTAL RINGS has been received.
If your external answering machine records fax
signals, but your fax machine cannot receive any
faxes, check the connection of your external
answering machine. Connect the external answe-
ring machine to the same telephone socket or to
the EXT. socket of your fax machine (see chap-
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ter Installation / Additional devices).
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