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If one modem is using the telephone-line,<br />
then activating the other modem will cause the detection of a &quot;busy&quot; condition (i.e., lack of dial-tone).<br />
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It shouldn't cause enough interference<br />
to cause the &quot;active&quot; modem to &quot;drop&quot; the current connection.
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If one modem is using the telephone-line,
then activating the other modem will cause the detection of a "busy" condition (i.e., lack of dial-tone).

It shouldn't cause enough interference
to cause the "active" modem to "drop" the current connection.

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I need to share 1 line between Fax software (Zetafax) and Internet access on Windows NT. The modem is on the server. The problem is that Zetafax owns the serial port and it does not allow the proxy (Wingate) to get access to the modem. It can be solved if you shutdown the Zetafax server or service when you want to connect to internet and bring it up again when you finish with internet but that is no suitable because it would bother people too much. My idea is to put 2 modems in 2 ports sharing the phone line, and I wonder if there would be any problem when one software is using one of the modems causing something to the other modem. Another solution would be to use the command option of the dial up definition to shutdown the fax server when you want to use internet but the problem would be to bring it up automatically. I need a good solution for this problem.
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I need to share 1 line between Fax software (Zetafax) and Internet access on Windows NT. The modem is on the server. The problem is that Zetafax owns the serial port and it does not allow the proxy (Wingate) to get access to the modem. It can be solved if you shutdown the Zetafax server or service when you want to connect to internet and bring it up again when you finish with internet but that is no suitable because it would bother people too much. My idea is to put 2 modems in 2 ports sharing the phone line, and I wonder if there would be any problem when one software is using one of the modems causing something to the other modem. Another solution would be to use the command option of the dial up definition to shutdown the fax server when you want to use internet but the problem would be to bring it up automatically. I need a good solution for this problem.

Telephone line shared by two modems

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.