| I got my box yesterday and the service was turned on today.
Yes, the old CID box still works with ringing calls. With CWID turned on you
hear a little data pulse immediately following the "beeep" that indicates a CW
call.
However, and this is really obnoxious, the box I got requires that the off-hook
phone be in series with it in order to register CWID. In other words, it can't
just sit on a stub, and if it happens to be sitting on an extension that is not
in use when you get the CWID, it does not register.
I also saw some complaining about this in one of the news groups, so it is
apparently a common (unavoidable?) thing with these boxes.
I'm probably going to run the main incoming line to the box and then split it
off to the house phones (with one seldom-used phone coming direct off the line
so something will work if the CWID box gets unplugged).
Burns
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