Subj : Caller ID problems?
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : John Guillory
Date : Fri May 13 2005 11:06 am

  Re: Caller ID problems?
  By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Sun May 08 2005 10:45 pm

 > Caller ID correctly. Nothing comes across on the display. I tested my phone
 > by moving it to one of the old runs, and it gets caller ID, but when
 > plugged into the new line, no CID. I checked polarity, and it's good on the
 > troublesome jack. The voice line is good, no quality problems, no
 > scratchiness, no gain issues - nothing to indicate a wiring fault anywhere.
 > 
 > Anyone heard of a similar problem?
Yup, when I assumed the lady at bellsouth got the order correctly, logging into
their website and telling it to add caller ID deluxe to my 2nd line had the
caller-ID working in 2-3 days... Very likely that if the new line is just
setup, they have the line turned on, but some of the features won't be
activated for a few more days....  Either way, I'd call your phone provider and
verify first that you are in fact supposed to have the service on that phone
line working at the time...  Though right now I'm using Voicepulse via Cable
modem.  Free long distance, can have as many numbers as I want in as many
cities as I need for a few extra dollers per phone number... Also has some nice
features that can only be found on voice over IP lines, like forward your call
based upon the incoming phone number... Eg. if my sister calls me, I can
forward her call automatically to her step-daughter, or once I answer the
phone, I press flash, *98, wait for the dial tone, dial her step daugher's
phone #, hear a tone and then hang up the phone.  My sister can then talk to
her step-daughter as long as she wants for free as if she called her
directly...  I can also have the phone appear busy or disconnnected when
bill-collectors call...  So many features that make normal phone lines seem so
in-adaquate....  I've seen some VOIP setups that pretty much let you have
               several phone lines and use regular phones kindoffice phone
system, where you can transfer, hold, etc...


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