- Credit Card machine and fax to share line with ADSL
- Posted by John Appleyard on June 7th, 2004
We plan to convert our Business Highway to ADSL as soon as our exchange
is enable (June 16). Currently we use the 2 analogue lines that come
with Highway for a fax (Hewlett Packard G95 all in one), and an Ingenico
TT41 credit card machine thingy.
I've heard that some new faxes may be incompatible with ADSL, and the
bank who rent us the credit card machine say that there may be
communications problems with "digital lines" (though they won't say what
they mean by that).
Q. Can the fax and credit card machine work over our ADSL line? Or
should we rent a second line for analogue devices?
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John A
- Posted by Dominic on June 7th, 2004
John Appleyard wrote:
ADSL is an analogue service; your ISDN (Highway) line will be converted to
an analogue line to support ADSL. There should be no problems using a fax or
credit card machine on an ADSL line (except that some filters are not
compatible with certain fax machines).
Dominic
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- Posted by Flexi on June 7th, 2004
"John Appleyard" <spamtrap@polyhedron.com> wrote in message
news:40C4935E.1060003@polyhedron.com...
Yes, they will.. just make sure its pluged in to a Microfilter... ADSL
modems normaly come with 2 Micro Filters, but you can ask your isp for more,
normal costs about £6 each.
There is no need to get another phone line installed.
- Posted by Ian G Batten on June 7th, 2004
In article <40C4935E.1060003@polyhedron.com>,
John Appleyard <spamtrap@polyhedron.com> wrote:
They mean digital lines on PABXes. Clearly, analogue anythings won't
work on these.
ian
- Posted by Woof on June 7th, 2004
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:12:18 +0100, "Dominic"
<d.foulkes-spamtrap@ayl.cs.icbroadband.com> wrote:
You cannot get ADSL on ISDN lines imn the UK because the ISDN signal
infringes on frequencies used by ADSL (and vice versa). It could be
made to work, but it'd be a bother.
Other countries have DSL running over ISDN lines.
- Posted by Dominic on June 7th, 2004
Woof wrote:
Don't tell me, tell the OP.
- Posted by Rob Walker on June 7th, 2004
"Dominic" <d.foulkes-spamtrap@ayl.cs.icbroadband.com> wrote in message
news:40c493e5$0$6334$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net. ..
Well, that's not strictly true. What does the 'D' is ADSL stand for if not
digital. It is a digital servcie but co-exists on a standard analogue PSTN
line.
Rob
- Posted by Dominic on June 7th, 2004
"Rob Walker" <robw@NOSPAMPLEASE.dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:40c4a93c$0$20518$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
It's not strictly true to say that it is digital either. ADSL uses analogue
modulation. There was a lengthy discussion about this not long ago on here,
and it's not really relevant here. The point is that you cannot have ADSL on
an ISDN line without BT first downgrading it back to an analogue phone line.
An ISDN line or variant thereof is what is the merchant bank meant by a
'digital line' in this context.
Dominic
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