Chapter 5 Receiving Faxes 5-9Receiving FaxesUsing the Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection(DRPD) FeatureSome phone companies offer a distinctive ring pattern (DRP) servicewhereby they assign two or more telephone numbers with distinctive ringpatterns to a single telephone line. If your phone company offers such aservice, you can have both a fax number(s) and a telephone number(s) foryour MultiPASS using only one telephone line.Your MultiPASS will automatically detect incoming calls. Based on thedistinctive ring pattern, the MultiPASS knows if the call is from a faxmachine trying to send a document or from a telephone trying to make avoice call.Use the information in this section to set up the MultiPASS for use with aDRP service. For more details on the DRP service, contact your localtelephone company. (Your telephone company may have a different namefor this service. Also, this service may not be offered in all areas.)Types of Ring PatternsYour telephone company will assign a distinctive ring pattern to eachnumber when you order the DRP service. The setting you make in theMultiPASS must match the setting assigned by the telephone company.You can set the MultiPASS for the following ring patterns:m Normal ring—Ring type of normal telephone line(Recommended for voice calls)m Double ring—Two short rings at regular intervals(Recommended for fax calls)m Triple ring—Short-short-long at regular intervalsm Triple ring—Short-long-short at regular intervalsm Other ring type—Patterns other than those described aboveYou set the DRPD Switch Options in the Advanced: Receive Fax dialogbox (see page 8-10 for details).You must set all DRPD ring numbers in the MultiPASS. You select thering pattern and then specify whether the pattern is for telephone calls,faxes, or both (FaxTel switching). See the next section for details.
