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Question

How to Connect a Computer to Modem to Internet to POTS Line

Sep 22, 2017 6:39AM PDT

I need to be able to send data to a Liftmaster EL 2000 Telephone Gate Directory Keypad that is connected to a POTS/land line. I do not have a POTS/land line on my end. I have a PC, a modem and internet access. The program used from a PC is Versa 4.0. Versa enables you to add user names, phone numbers and assign pass codes. Versa 4.0 requires an analog modem to be connected to your PC to be able to transmit data to the Directory keypad that is connected to a POTS line.
How can I establish a modem connection from my PC with analog 56k modem to a POTS telephone number the EL 2000 Keypad is connected to without a POTS line to connect my modem to?

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VOIP
Sep 22, 2017 6:43AM PDT

Get a Magic Jack Plus. I tested it when I first got one just to see if a 56K modem would work over it for sending data and fax. It did. That way you can send it all by internet and recieve by internet, as if it was a POTS.

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VOIP
Sep 22, 2017 9:57AM PDT

Thanks, I understand the fax machine communication (not inside PC) via the Magic Jack Plus adapter through a PC to the internet.
I need Versa program data inside my PC to be sent via a USB modem (translated/coded) to the internet.
Ideally, the USB modem could connect/transmit data from my PC to a celphone that would call the POTS/landline Gate Keypad. Do not know how to get the USB modem to send Versa program data from my PC to a celphone.

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I have to write nope.
Sep 22, 2017 10:26AM PDT

Time to get back to the Versa program's owner/company to see if they have a solution as the old analog modem over cell phone solutions are dead and gone. There are folk that will want this but it's gone (at least here in North America.)

My advice is to stop searching and get back to Versa for the talk.

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Yes, Liftmaster Versa program is antiquated
Sep 22, 2017 12:51PM PDT

Thx for the advice, R Proffitt. I started this query after reading some of your solutions. Unfortunately, Liiftmaster has no intention of utilizing a Internet-based Modem (IM) Server like Door King. Told the keypad installer to make sure his customers know they to must have a POTS/landline and analog modem to update Resident Gate Entrance Directory Keypads. Will recommend Door King over LIftmaster Keypads for the foreseeable future. I will buy landline service for our HOA Property Manager Office, but will not be able to update the directory or gate schedule from my PC at home or on the road,

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Read below.
Sep 22, 2017 9:50PM PDT

About the Magic Jack. It's something that you plug into your internet connected PC but I found it fails for certain old "analog MODEM" systems. I would not assure anyone it will work.

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lifemaster versa program
Sep 23, 2017 2:01PM PDT

I also live in a HOA that used Door king gate box. When the telephone company made a change in their equipment we could no longer use our USB modems. We had to go to 56k pci modems. We also found out that Door King offers for a fee direct internet connections to the gatebox key pad. You might want to heck this feature out.

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Often that's due to over modulation....
Sep 24, 2017 4:07PM PDT

....of the sound from stronger modem. They should have volume control to aid avoiding that, but I've also noted some tones seem cut off by narrow bandwidth used. Make sure to not over modulate (make volume too loud) on the modems.

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I don't think you do understand the Magic Jack Plus
Sep 22, 2017 11:43AM PDT

It connects by a LAN cord to a port on your router. The other side of the Magic Jack works just like POTS, same as if you plugged your phone into a wall jack and had copper to the house, except it sends the signal over IP instead. A standard older phone works just fine on it. An old 56K data/fax modem in some slot using dialup networking will work with it. You can even transfer data direct between your computer and another using zmodem if you want. You get a phone number, or can transfer your current number to the device, the latter is what I did, have the same phone number for 30+ years now.

Now, you said you wanted to sent to a POTS phone. Then you say to a cellphone. POTS it works, I don't know about it working with cellphone, unless maybe the cellphone had some fax program. I do have a cellphone and since I have the Magic Jack, I have the app for Magic Jack also on my cellphone, so I can make open wifi calls when it's available if I don't want to use up minutes on my cellphone plan.