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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.
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There is a software I used to use long time ago when I had dial up but you have to pay around $7.00 month when you get call you see the number on the screen you have choice to answer or ignore or turn on answering machine software. that is the name of the software Internet answering machine. look for it in search engine.
- 1 decade ago
I work for the cable company....what's wrong with Broadband internet service? Yeah it is more expensive but more convenient Call in for a promo and that way you won't have to use a phone line.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
get another phone line or a switch board that u can buy in the stoes(it automatically switches the internet off when a call is coming in) or get dsl
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You need a modem that supports call-waiting and modem-on-hold. It can't be done with just software.
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