If the Panasonic manual refers to "distinctive ring" it is talking about the different ring cadences WITHIN the Panasonic system. It does NOT detect distinctive ring from the phone company.
Your best bet is to use a dist. ring box from a company like Commshare as Erling recommended. That can feed the co ports on the ksu, then the ksu will show them on different buttons. I would not use it for a business line if the line absolutely had to be kept separate from the home line. In other words, if the unit errs and a business call is answered by someone at home, will that be a problem? I used distinctive ring for a fax line for many years and it worked fine most of the time, sometimes it did not work properly but it was a minor problem for me as recieved very few faxes. Also, you should realize that if you only have one line and a call has been answered by one of the kids, say, and you're expecting a business call, that call will not get through until your teen hangs up. One line = one call at a time Charles On 9/12/06, MOK-Camden Upper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a SoHo application which needs distinctive ringing on several > groups of CO lines to distinguish business calls from home calls -and the > latter has to be divided up between "parents" and "teens." We were looking > at the TA-824 because it has distinctive CO ringing. However it appears that > there are only three types of cadence variations, and that these have to be > split among not only the CO lines (where you can use the three difference > cadences to help recognize three different CO lines ringing) but also among > the Intercom and Door phone rings. So if the TA-824 only has three cadences > and you have "CO", "Intercom" and "Doorphone" to distinguish, the you really > can't use the 'distinctive ringing' feature to separate the CO lines as well > because it would get confused with whatever similar choice you made for > Intercom and Doorphone (see 9.3.1 in the 824 programming manual where it > makes this reference). Did I miss something here? > > I know that some of the "digital phones" could have distinctive "tones", > but as I recall they were single frequency and rather annoying. > > Are they any other alternatives in the Panasonic world where I can get > cadence variances on the CO ringing that is not the same as Doorphone and > Intercom? TDA-50 maybe? > > I know there's been some discussion from some of the vendors on this > list being frustrated with the Panasonic's seemingly lack of attention to > feature enhancements over the last couple of years ,and some of you have > mentioned switching customers to the Partner ACS . I'm wondering if that > system has better choices for Distinctive Ringing? > > Thanks, > -Marc O'Krent > The Telephone Connection of Los Angeles, Inc. > _________________________________________________________________ > KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ > Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt > -- Charles Patterson 914-366-0291 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patterson Communications, Inc. www.PattersonCommunications.com or [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
