ISDNers

Fing

Quick one lads,

You've got an internal ISDN TA and ure using the POTS connection for your analogue phone;
when the PC is turned off is the POTS still active ie. will yer bleedin' dog 'n' bone still poxy work?

Ta

Finglas Incubus

TwoShedsJackson

The bleedin' dog 'n bone will still poxy work when the PC is off, as phones do not rely on electricity to work. As you have no doubt noticed when the ESB go out on strike, the phone is unaffected.

BugBlaster

ùmmmm with my internal TA its analogue pots die with the pc when you turn it off...
so my solution was....
to use an external Ta just for the analogue phones, and let it plugged in all the time

Overlord

actually Castor phones DO rely on electricity to work but its contained in the telephone lines themselves.
Excellent.

_CreeD_

Now, Im quite likely wrong. But I imagine that the TA has to do some conversion of your analogue phone signal to be able to shift it down the ISDN line. It wouldn't work like a simple pass through. So if it's off, so is a connected phone.

As I said, just a guess.

DeVore

No no OL, phones work on majic pixie dust dontcha know !!

Phones need electricity to work and the TA does some conversion from POTS to ISDN so the TA needs to be on or that just wont happen. Internal/external makes no difference, the TA has to be on or no dog-n-bone.

DeV.