Buy Command Communications Comswitch 5500 3-Port Phone/Fax Modem Line Sharing DeviceCommand Communications Comswitch 5500 3-Port Phone/Fax Modem Line Sharing Device Product Description:
- Allows up to 3 devices--usually a telephone, answering machine, fax or modem--to share a single phone line.
- Choose "Automatic" or "Semi-Automatic" mode
- Remote message notification
Product Description
The ComSwitch 5500 fax switch to automatically route calls to your phone, answering machine, fax or modem - all on a single line! Choose Automatic or Semi-Automatic operation. (Telephone line sharing device - fax switch).
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94 of 97 people found the following review helpful.
A good device that fulfills a necessary function
By A Customer
If you don't want to pay for a separate phone line dedicated to your fax machine, this is an excellent solution. It separates out fax calls from voice calls and routes each type to the appropriate device. All you have to do is plug it into your phone line and them plug the fax machine and telephone into their separate ports in the Comswitch. This item is also nicely priced at $... and is probably tax-deductible if you're using it for business. A cimple and elegant solution.
50 of 50 people found the following review helpful.
An ingenious device!
By Twins Dad
This device works perfectly! It has many features and modes of operation but here is how I set mine up for basic use: I connect my incoming phone line to the input port, my answering maching w/phone to the TAD port, and my fax machine to the fax port. When a call comes in the Comswitch "picks up" the call on the first ring and listens momentarily for a fax tone. If there is a tone it immediately switches the call to the fax machine and then transmission begins, if it is a voice call it immediately switches to my anwering maching which then begins ringing, working as it usually does with any incoming call. For my answering machine connection, the only difference from before the Comswitch is that there is one addtional ring before the call actually starts to ring on the anwering machine. However, all of this is invisible to the caller. It also is supposed to work with voice mail systems too.
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.Well worth the call to the customer support #. It works!
By MMC
I bought this item after reading good reviews here and elsewhere. I didn't want it for faxes (I'm using maxemail.com for that so that junk faxes don't eat up my fax paper and ink). I just wanted to route my DISTINCTIVE RING/SMART RING calls to a differnt phone/answering machine for business calls.If I hadn't read the comments here (about contacting Commands customer support number), I would have returned it the next day. I'M SO GLAD I DIDN'T RETURN IT, because now it's exactly what I wanted. Their tech support told me codes to make it:1. Ignore all calls to my regular number and just let those ring thru to my family phones/answ machine, as usual.2. Recognize calls with the Distinctive Ring and route the call to second phone/answering machine combo. (That has a business greeting on the answering machine).3. Let the those "distinctive-ring" calls ring long enough for me to answer before the machine picks them up.4. Preserve caller ID on all of the calls; to all of the phones.My suggestion is to buy this product and save yourself the price of a second line. If it doesn't work right out of the box for you ... DON'T drive yourself nuts trying to troubleshoot the darn thing. (The codes in the printed manual and online are not correct/sufficient.) Just give the company a call and they will have it custom programmed to your needs in less than 15 minutes. If you find a glitch, call them again and they'll tell you a code to fix it!Thank you to those who wrote a review before me. Without reading those, I would have returned a product which ended up being exactly what I needed.
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