What is a good program I can download to tell me when a phone call comes in when I am on my dial up Internet?
I work from home and only have access to dial up where I am. I need to be online for work and I also like to check my personal email etc during the day. The problem is my daughter is going to be in grade one this year and I hate tying up my phone line incase the school tries to phone. Even though it almost never happens, I would hate to miss a call from them. Plus, I hate missing calls anyway, no matter the time. The whole dial up thing is irriating, but we are not getting satelite internet, or cable either.
So until the highspeed is available in my area i need a good program, that is cheap to free preferablly.
I had phone tray, but found that the phone had to ring forever before it alerted me, and by the time I logged off the caller had already hung up....
I think I must have a modem that supports those functions as the program "phone tray" did work while I was using it, it was just soooo slow, that is was barely useful.
and I can't get dsl where I am, it is not available yet.
Also, I cannot get internet through cabel connections as we are out of town and there is no cable service here...we do have satelite service, but satelite internet is far too expensive for the start up, and monthly as well for that matter.