Is there any issues if there is a answering machine in the house? I would plan to have the dialer set up on the basement with a dedicated phone jack. The answering machine is in a separate room upstairs. So, physically different lines but part of the...
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We have ours dialing a Vonage unit to a cellphone bypassing answering machine. I wonder why you would send a water alert to an answering machine? Idea is to stop the water before real damage occurs not listen to an untimely message.
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This is a home telephone. We have one in our home. What we have is an answering machine also.
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Follow the instructions to hook up the answer machine with the fax. It works great!!! If the call is a fax the fax machine picks up; if the call is a voice call and you don't answer it it will go to the answer machine that you attach to the fax.
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Not unless you plan on connecting a landline phone to make outgoing calls using that port. But when you hook it up to a phone line, you already can call in to it (you would have to set the number of rings before it answers on initial setup) also, the phone line from the wall connects to the "out line". If connecting a telephone or answering machine using the same outlet, you connect that to the "phone" port. (That messed me up when I was setting mine up, but that was the only problem I had)
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hi, an update on my previous note...I used the locator/intercom feature with my husband. He answered his phone in the basement and it came through the intercom. Thanks for making me aware of this feature!
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You're not likely to improve phone reception by putting an extender in a basement. I got a powerline wi-fi network adapter (runs your network thru the power outlets to give you an Ethernet jack anywhere) and put this unit (which require an Ethernet cable connection) in a second-story room so that it had the best phone and GPS signal.
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Just run the vontage line through it and should work on one phone in another room. Not a whole house though. Quality might not be great but you probably could use a splitter and try. I recommend a hard line when ever possible or buy a phone with multible sets. They work best.
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yes you can. i have my base connected by its self and the fax machine connected by its self--if the answering machine picks up -but a data tone is being sentthe fax is set to pickup the data tone.you can connect both togetheryou may need to do some adjusting according to the instructions and your preference.
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My base is located in my basement and phone is upstairs. I've had no problems. Overall, I'm pleased with the product.
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Yes, a phone line is required in order for the system to dial out. My recommendations is simple talk, vonage or Verizon's home phone connect.
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Not sure of your question. This device (which I actually bought for my father-in-law in a distant city) is "broadcasting to" a base phone unit with an answering machine built in - and the answering machine works fine. The phone number that it is programmed to ring is a cell phone with NO voice mail capability, so I don't know whether an "answering machine" on the receiving end would have problems or not as we haven't tried it. I would think it would work ok.
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It connnects to a phone line. Might need a splitter to connect ur phone and the dialer to the jack. If u have a answering machine its abit tricky . They dont recommend using with one.
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The unit I purchased has it's own answering machine. I'm not sure if it can to hooked up to another machine.
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I have no idea! I really just use it as a basic house line. I don't even use the answering function. The ABC buttons could be preset for Fire, Ambulance, rescue....with no dialing.
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It does need a dedicated phone line. The way around it is to use one of those little splitters. Plug it into your phone jack, then use one for the phone line, another one for the faxes.Or you can install an extra phone jack next to the existing one (if you know how).
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I have a landline and I linked my Panasonic phone to two different mobile phones. I set the Panasonic phone to have a different ring for each of them. I also could dial out on either mobile phone through the Panasonic phone, and I could transfer a call from either mobile phone to the Panasonic phone and back again w/o dropping the call. The only thing I could not do was to transfer a landline call to one of the mobile phones. The only major quirk is that when answering a mobile call there is a short delay before you can talk. The delay is about 2 seconds.
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No, this product does not contain a built-in answering machine. Another answering machine on the same line can interfere with receiving faxes, depending on how you have the line and the machine set up. I subscribe to what my local phone company calls "signal ring." There is one phone line, but two phone numbers, each number with its own distinct ring. This fax machine can be set to respond to a distinct ring so that it will automatically pick up when it senses that particular ringing pattern. I use one number for my fax and the other number for my regular phone calls, and I set the fax to answer after only one ring so the answering machine won't interfere with its answering faxes.