How do I get my phone socket to recognise between phone & fax?

adaadat

I need to plug a phone and MFP (with fax) into one socket, but the MFP I'm looking at doesn't auto switch between phone and fax. I guess I would have to transfer the call to the fax, every time one comes through, and I might lose some faxes.

Is there anything that I can plug into the wall socket, into which I then plug both the phone and fax, that will auto detect whether the call is a voice call or fax and switch between the two? Something that fits between the wall socket and phone & fax (MFP), essentially?

Cheers.

sillygoose

Yes there is, I had one years....... ago. I seem to remember Ebaying it for a few quid. You need an Avro Pacific Fax Friend.

Little box goes in the phone socket and the fax and phone go to it. From memory it answer all calls, if it detects an incoming fax tones on the line it routed the line to the fax, otherwise it routes to the phone. Worked OK, well I don't remember it not!