Telephone Services and External Devices
You may be able to use the following services and connections with your Brother machine.
These are summaries of ways to connect your machine. For more information about each
topic, see the
Online User's Guide
.
Voice Mail
If you have Voice Mail service and your
Brother machine on the same line, they will
conflict with one another when receiving
incoming calls. If you want the Brother
machine to share a single line with your Voice
Mail, you must either put the Brother
machine's in Manual Mode or subscribe to
your telephone company’s Distinctive Ring
service.
Distinctive Ring
Distinctive Ring is a telephone-company
service that allows you to have two different
phone numbers on a single line. Each
telephone number has its own ring pattern.
You can program your Brother machine to
receive faxes automatically on one of the two
numbers.
Voice Over Internet Protocol
(VoIP)
VoIP is a phone system that uses an Internet
connection instead of a traditional telephone
line. Telephone providers frequently bundle
VoIP with Internet and cable services. Your
Brother machine may not work with some
VoIP systems. For more information, contact
your VoIP provider.
Connection of an External
Telephone Answering
Device (TAD)
Your Brother machine can receive faxes
automatically when it shares a line with an
external TAD. You must connect the TAD to
the jack labeled EXT. on the Brother machine
and set the machine's Receive Mode to
External TAD.
External and Extension
Telephones
You can connect a separate telephone to the
jack labeled EXT. on the Brother machine. If
you answer an incoming fax on the external
telephone, you can make the machine receive
it by pressing
* 5 1
, or by pressing Fax Start,
and then choosing Receive. If you answer an
incoming fax on an extension telephone that
shares the line with the Brother machine, you
can transfer the fax to the machine by
pressing
* 5 1
.
If the machine answers a voice call and
pseudo/double-rings for you to take over,
press
# 5 1
to take the call on an extension
telephone.
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