Electronic hardware and computer software, namely, multiplexers and software, used for accessing a remote office computer network, remote facsimile machine, and remote private branch exchange (PBX); electronic hardware and computer software for telecommuting; electronic hardware and computer software for enabling a remote user’s telephone, connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), cable modem, or DSL line to behave as a PBX extension of the user's office telephone system; electronic hardware and computer software to enable a user to connect to a computer network and receive incoming telephone calls with the use of a single telephone, cable modem or DSL line without disconnecting them from the computer network; electronic hardware and computer software enabling an incoming telephone call, traveling over a telephone, cable modem or DSL line that is currently being used by the recipient, to ring all individual telephones at the recipient’s home or office; electronic hardware and computer software to forward and route telephone calls directed to a user’s office extension to a telephone at the user’s home or some other remote location; and electronic hardware and computer software for forwarding and routing a user’s electronic mail from one computer to another computer