Your phone company has to offer such software or it does not work. If you have ATT, Verizon or other, you ask them what works with their system today.
Bob
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Your phone company has to offer such software or it does not work. If you have ATT, Verizon or other, you ask them what works with their system today.
Bob
Thank you R. Proffitt for you reply.
I spoke to my phone company who is Frontier and they do not offer CAllWave or something similar. Now, I did download CallWave on another home computer I have that I got through an Earthlink offer because I have Earthlink dialup internet, but it only downloads on one computer - so when I use my other computer with a large screen (I just got it working yesterday) I cannot receive phone calls and want another internet answering machine on that computer.
I am still trying to figure out how to use Phoner that I download on CNET with the language problems I described in my earlier email, for anyone reading this. Thank you.
It's a hard area to describe in 3 paragraphs but Phoner has to work with the phone company to offer such a feature. It used to be pretty common but with the passing of dialup into near obscurity, the phone companies don't do this anymore from what I can tell.
Bob
I guess I could call my phone company to have them accept Phoner then, but with the directions in German I am not sure it's worth it and I should just uninstall it.
I don't like dial up at all, but have to go with that right now. My CallWave works fine and I don't mind calling the phone company to tell them I want CallWave forwarded - from the Earthlink link I was sent. I don't remember calling the phone company; I think now they have something you sign or something allowing CallWave / Earthlink to communicate to the phone company that I want to use CallWave. My idea now is to call Earthlink customer service and see if they will send me another link to download CallWave on my second computer. I think that will resolve my problem since I don't see the point in using Phoner even though it is free but since I can't understand their German instructions I hope other people won't bother downloading it if you can't read German.
Thanks.
contacting Earthlink - thank you R. Proffitt!