| yes, i am still here.. i guess i should break down and just Register for my own personal username and account so you all can PM me, but i dont really need extra emails being sent to my already spam infested personal email box.
anyway... fyg i dont have any software for programing the PBX tho i am sure i can find it if i look around.. my problem is connecting my PC to the PBX which is in our closet and not so easy to get to.
(the PBX is 15 years old... i wonder if i can add a wi-fi PC card to the thing so i can access it without having to get up there ever again... wouldnt that be amazing)
otherwize, can i assume that a regular cat5 cable w\ an RJ45 connection will plug into the PBX? i can use my laptop (i hope to connect to the PBX and program it -- i just have to find the passwords and stuff)... whatever you do, please dont tell me i have to use a serial connection to do the programing... that would be a serious roadblock.. and oh yea.. please tell me this software will run on win2k pro... finding a laptop that still runs win98 is gonna be a problem...
FYG i took a meeting w\ some company that sells/leases PBXs and he had a lot of good things to say for our PBX. so much so that he even recomended symply replacing the handsets/telephones around the office (which are malfunctioning in one way or another) rather than replacing the entire system and starting from scartch.. which is a relief.
he did ask me to open the PBX up to see what kind of cartrages and other stuff was already included. i didnt do that yet tho i will sometime in the next few days. i can say that our setup is rather basic -- ie although we get our lines from a T1, the T1 doesnt plug directly into the PBX... it splits into 12 analog lines that then plug back into a second thing that looks like a router and then into the PBX. so we have a digital to analog to digital conversion going on... my guess is that the PBX doesnt include the hardware for accepting a T1 directly b/c when we 1st installed the PBX, we were using 12 analog verizon/NYNEX lines and not a T1. (the guy made it sound like the T1 compatability was an optional feature which we may or may not have so he wanted to open up the PBX to check)
secondly, only 10 of the 12 lines plug into the PBX, the other two plug into faxes around the office so it may not have made sense at the time to plug the T1 into the PBX and have to deal w\ rerouting the last 2 lines to the faxes.
anyway, back to programing the thing. will i not be able to do so from the MLX 20L operator console? this would be much easier for me.
thanks again for your help and for taking the time to read all of this...
galve. |