From: mlewis@cssnet.wplace.UUCP (Mark Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.internet,alt.bbs.waffle,alt.bbs,comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: multiline bbs (was Free Internet/Usenet Access)
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:32:47 GMT
Organization: The Waffle House, Waldo's Place USA


hho@phakt.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:

> In article <awmLTB2w165w@spud.kludge.com> tom@spud.kludge.com (Tom Lemos) wri
> >you wanna rethink this one?  Can you have more than one person call you at
> >once?
> That is the question :-)
> Most company and univ has something install before the modem pool.
> Then everyone just call 1 number and the phone line will rotate to
> different modem..

"ya can't there from here..."

i have changed the subject from "Free Internet/Usenet Access" to the above
because the topic has changed considerably from what it was -=B-)

if you have only ONE line from the phone company, and that line is being
rotated internally thru several other lines (in house), HOW can another
caller get thru the *ONE* line that the phone company has routed to your
place?

in short, it *can't* be done the way you are thinking of... if you want
more than one dialin line, you *must* have more than one line from the
phone company.... which is what you were asking to avoid...

what you can do is this... if you want 4 lines to your system, then get
the phone company to install four lines... then also have them turn on
what is known as RollOver... then you only give out your Main Number...
it works like this...

      main number = 123-4567
      line 2      = ???-????
      line 3      = ???-????
      line 4      = ???-????

i dial 123-4567 and it's busy... the RollOver rings the line 2 number...
if it is busy then the call rolls over to the line 3 number... if it is
busy, then it goes on to line 4... if that one is busy, i'll get a busy
signal... the call will be answered by the first non-busy line...

i don't need to know the other numbers at all... the only time you would
want to give out any of the other numbers would be if you have a different
modem setup that you have to give direct access to...

    ie: main number and line 2 are 2400 modems
        lines 3 and 4 are 9600 and up...

if i call with a highspeed modem, i do not want to access the main number
or line 2, so i would need ONLY the number for line 3 since it would
rollover to line 4 if 3 was busy...

it ain't inexpensive either<<grin>>... when you speak of the companies
and universities doing this... they are doing the above and then feeding
the inbound Trunk Line to their internal PBX system which *may* route the
call to another phone, in most cases... all in all, you have to have more
than one phone line if you want to have more than one caller at a time...

)\/(ark


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