FastRad Install 3

[DaveThePhoneDoctor]

MICS/NAM: NorstarTechChris sent me the FastRAD manual. Thanks Chris!

However I am just not able to understand the install and config procedure of the FastRad.

Now remember I read the manual after working all night til 3am.

I want to be able to set it up so I can connect remote via my office PC like I do for my Partner systems.

1-How is it connected:
FastRad unit to 9 pin cable then to 9 cable port ( there are two 9 pin ports ) on underside of NAM? Then station cable to FastRAD unit. Then station cable to any unassigned ext. or outside loop line?

2- How to set FastRAD unit for Auto Answer:
Do I Telnet to FastRAD unit via a PC then reset the AA. How do I check to see if the FastRAD unit is already set for Auto Answer ( can I place a call to it )

3-Once setup how can I log on after hours when the recp. is gone:
According to the installations inst. I can only use the Auto AA to route me to the FastRAD unit with Compact system. I have a MICS/NAM and it says that I must have the Recp. rout me to the unit ( what do I do after hours when the Recp. is gone )

I am a fast learner and this is only the 4th MICS//NAM I have worked on. I am planning on working on more. So far I am up to speed on everything else with MICS. I have never connected a FastRAD before.

I have to go over there today and could use some help to set this up so I do not have to keep running over there for every little change.

Thanks again Chris for the manual.

Dave,
The Phone Doctor
Las Vegas, NV USA

"You're Never Alone When You're Near A Phone!"

...Lily Tomlin
a/k/a "Ernestine

 

[exsmogger]

F9** accesses the FastRAD programming. Change the password to a 10-digit number. Press "DATA". Assign an auto answer line and number of rings before the FastRAD answers. This will have to be a line the NAM doesn't answer. The DB9 serial port is to connect locally to a PC's serial port while running NRU.

Brian Cox

http://www.jandjcommunications.com

 

[DaveThePhoneDoctor]

Thanks Brian. I need to operator this from a remote site so I do not understand the part about connecting the DB9 to a PC. If I do that then how to I access the system.

IF the telco. station line is connected to lets say ext-249 that is how I can dial into the system. But then how do I communicate with the system?

Am I understanding that a PC must be connected to the system and that the FastRAD modem is not the link between and remote PC and the MICS?

I am confused. Heading to my client nwo I will see if I can access the net from there to check your answer.

Thanks!

Dave,
The Phone Doctor
Las Vegas, NV USA

"You're Never Alone When You're Near A Phone!"

...Lily Tomlin
a/k/a "Ernestine

 

[DaveThePhoneDoctor]

P.S. How does on access the system afte hours when there is no operator available to transfer the call into RAD

Dave,
The Phone Doctor
Las Vegas, NV USA

"You're Never Alone When You're Near A Phone!"

...Lily Tomlin
a/k/a "Ernestine

 

[exsmogger]

That's what the auto answer line is for. The FastRAD will answer that line when you call it remotely. The DB9 is only used if you're on site and want to use NRU. There are 3 different ways to connect to the FastRAD: 1 - locally using the DB9 serial port. 2 - Remotely using the auto answer line assigned to the FastRAD. 3 - Remotely using operator assist.

Brian Cox

http://www.jandjcommunications.com

 

[Crowtalks]

Connect the FastRad to a CICS or MICS open station port via RJ 11 jack.

From another station press F** and go though the FastRad menu to set the 8 digit password and verify the baud rate. and set the line to be answered.

At the remote remote location open your NRU tools and set the baud rate at 9600, next two fields are default and flow control is none.

Connect to the FastRad using dialup.

 

[bwtc]

In order for a FastRad to auto-answer, I think you need to have it on its own dedicated copper line if you are calling from the outside.

We have ours setup at our remote location, and am able to access it directly by calling the extension that it is physically punched down to at the remote location. The two systems are linked via a T1 over an E&M.

So, physically being at the remote site, I assigned a target line to the extension (ring-only). I then went into the RAD & set that target line as auto-answer. Works like a champ!

 

[DaveThePhoneDoctor]

Ok let me get this straight.

1-Connect RAD Modem and Power Suply and then to an RJ11.
2-RJ11 punched down to a RING ONLY Extension used only by the RAD.
3-Program the system via F** as described above.
4-Log on remote by dialing in using NRU to AA which will connect me to the extension I assigned to the RAD.

Does this sound right?

If I connect a copper loop line right into the RAD to test that it is working should it answer? If so how many rings does it normally answer with?

Dave,
The Phone Doctor
Las Vegas, NV USA

"You're Never Alone When You're Near A Phone!"

...Lily Tomlin
a/k/a "Ernestine

 

[Crowtalks]

One way - You can assign the FastRad to a particular line on the system and tell the device to auto answer the line after so many rings. Call the company and tell them to not answer line so and so because you are doing testing and activate your modem while you are on line with them to make sure she listens to you and you will know when they handshake.

Another way - You can ask the operator to send you to the fastrad by a feature code, I've never accessed it this way so someone else will have to fill you in on the procedure for that.

Sill another - Direct connect to the fastrad via serial cable that comes with it. That is the way to test it also, direct connect to one of your lab systems before you go to the sight.

 

[DaveThePhoneDoctor]

Thanks. For now with this customer I have had to walk off the job. He is a real a-hole. Started to complain about my work right away. It is just so he can have a reason not to pay the balance. My deposit was 60% so he is getting a 60% installation.

He is one of these that knows everything and howto do everything including installing a telephone system.

I told him when he calms down and decides to talk like a gentleman then I will talk with him.

I'll let him play Alexander Grahm Bell until he screws everything up. One thing he says is that he knows how to install a Night Bell.

He said I was just trying to add a lot of extra costs to the installation. He says all that has to be done is connecting a loud bell right to the telephone set and that will work just fine.

Dave,
The Phone Doctor
Las Vegas, NV USA

"You're Never Alone When You're Near A Phone!"

...Lily Tomlin
a/k/a "Ernestine

 

[Crowtalks]

It can be acheived that way, I think, by grabbing a couple of the pins in the headset plug on the bottom of the phone but that's a piss-poor way of doing it.