Weboughta 1040 fax machine. our phone system is bell canada. the answering system and call waiting will not work when fax is hooked up

The fax is set to answer on the 4th ring. Change it to answer on say... 6 rings.It cannot differentiate the call before it's picked up ... it just answers at at set number of rings

Set rings to answer
You can select the number of rings that will occur before the fax answers an incoming call. If you are using your machine as both a telephone and a fax machine, we suggest you set the ring count to at least 4 to give you time to answer.
TIP: HP 1050 Fax: The Toll Saver function for the Digital Message Center interacts with Rings to Answer. See Toll Saver on page 40. If you have the HP 1050 Fax and have Toll Saver turned on, set the Rings to Answer to 2.
1. Press Menu repeatedly until BASIC FAX displays and press Start/Enter.
Rings to Answer will display.
2. Press Start/Enter.
3. Enter the number of rings you want (2-7) and press Start/Enter.
The HP Fax rings the set number of times and then answers. It then produces a different sounding ring to alert you to which type of call is incoming.
• The additional ring may occur once for a fax call
• The additional ring occurs 5 times for a voice call. After the 5 additional rings, the answering machine will answer.

ALL fax machines are ANALOG devices and will not work reliably on a DIGITAL phone line. Filter or not.

There is no work-around.

If they changed you over to Vonage or some other digital service, the fax machine will not work reliably.

You need a plain old telephone system POTS for your fax. All faxes are analog.

Verify that you have a dial-tone by plugging a regular phone into the wall jack

The fax phone line goes to LINE Port
Answering machine goes to TEL Port

Hi,

If you are using the same phone line as your fax, you can start by connecting the answering machine on Line2 or 2-Ext at the back of the fax. Set the fax to answer on two rings higher than the Answering Machine. (for example: if answering maching is 4 rings, fax is 6 rings)

And then, turn on the auto answer.

There is a site called DRIVERGUIDE you can try, they require that you register but it's free.

It the funky line DSL?
Fax machines are designed to be on a dedicated ANALOG phone line. Sorry

Fax machines are designed to have their own dedicated phone lines.

Anything else is a ****-shoot.