Posted by AbleComm on October 7, 2009, 2:01 pm
If I enable the ringer tone on both line 1 & line 2, neither line will ring, not even the short, small burp of a ring, and there is no change in phone function. I do not need to unplug/plug in the phone.
My ‘hold’ button function, CWing and incoming CID functions seem to work fine. I am guessing that the same is true for the CWing incoming CID as well. I have not yet tried the multi-line conferencing function, but I would think that would work OK as well. Ditto with the ‘transfer’ feature, although I have no reason to use that function as this is the only phone like it connected to the various lines, and I am also not using a PBX.
It seems the only thing which is an issue is the ringer enablement. So, can either the ‘cloned line’ be configured to work as what is essentially the 2nd line of a two-line ‘hunt-group’ by having it ONLY ring if the first line is busy? Or, is there a work-around for this such as using an RJ-11 crossover cable from the PP GS phone port 2 to my phone’s wiring block port 2, or something of that sort to ‘trick’ the phone into thinking that there are actually two distinct lines, at least as far as status of the input signal to line 2 goes? I am also guessing that the PP GS is using the same twisted pair pin pair (or using both pair 1 & pair 2) for both phone port 1 & phone port 2, which may be why my phone is getting confused. It is looking for signals on two “different lines”, each is using a different twisted pair pin assignment from the other. Instead it is probably encountering what it sees as the same line coming in on two different wiring block ports, both of which have signal coming in on the same twisted pair pin pair - that it tries to treat as two “different lines”, and therefore it is getting confused as to how to handle the ringer tone assignments. At least this is the most likely scenario I can think of. It is possible it is something totally different.
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