> I have four telephones connected to one telephone line. If you talk on one, nobody can use the others. I also have a computer hooked to that line. When it's on line, the phones don't work. My new printer has a fax machine and it answers every call after the third ring and won't let me talk on the phone until it assures itself that the call didn't come from another fax.
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> My answering machine doesn't answer until the 4th ring, so it won't work unless I unplug the printer.

Ouch. Not to add to the confusion (I would *never* do *that*), but that doesn't put you over your ringer limit? That's an awfully large number of devices to have connected to one phone line...