What Am I Missing Here? What's The Purpose of It? Are the only things I'm missing the caller ID on my home phone and the inability to make calls through my cell line from my home phone?
163343
The main purpose I see is the ability to drop your land line. I was considering this until I realized that I would always have to run from room to room to find my cellphone if I got a call. With this system you have the convenience of multiple phones (not running to find one) without the cost of maintaining a landline. With landline rates running $25-40+ per month, I'm ready to save the expense.
1938090
We sent it back because Cable One would not hook it up. They wanted to sell us one of their brand new units. So we scrapped the whole idea and dropped our landline. We now use only our individual cell phones. Hope this helps!
515926
Yes, Bob, you do. FYI This caller id did not last very long. My phone quit working and the phone people realized that it was a faulty caller id.I junked it and ordered a Bellsouth product. I have always had good results from their products.
1941398
I'm sorry I can't answer your question. I've never used these features. I have call forwarding on my land line which I forward to my cell phone sometimes.
2160261
Yes, you don't have to use it. I never do. it's annoying. you can see the caller ID read out very clearly on the phone. I'm still very pleased with this purchase.
565131
I don't see the relevance to this unit?IT is just a phone holder with extra ports
1993546
No CallerID on this phone. This phone design was made before CallerID. To use CallerID with such a phone you would need a separate stand-alone CallerID device.
1680554
It works with any phone provider that provides caller ID info, so if you have a phone and get the caller ID information when a all comes in it will work. I use the "white" list which allows me to put in the numbers I want to pass thru, those not on the white list get hung up on immediately all they hear is a click and best of all I hear nothing. I love it!
1776399
Yes - but you need to understand that it is interpreting whatever the caller ID is showing so it might not make total sense.
410500
My wife doesn't use it. But my guess is within the phone. Take the phone out. Which to be honest doesnt make sense. Sorry not much help.
349909
I don't personally have call waiting on mine. If you pay for that option with your local telephone company, I'm sure it would work. It works for caller id.
868466
I dont think there is a setting for that. In my case, it does not "overide" the caller ID of any of my cordless handsets and I am using sets from two, different manufacturers.
515923
You have to have the Caller ID service on your telephone line. Please let me know if this doesn't answer your question.
114197
On the main phone there is a "digital answering" function indicated. We use our home phone carrier's service, so I can't personally give you feedback.
629976
I can't answer this because I've turned off call waiting (I hate getting interrupted by it, and figure people will call back). I am very pleased with the caller ID feature, but don't know how it functions for call waiting.
960640
If the caller presses the code, the Telebouncer disappears and you have a normal phone system. Be sure and tell everyone you WANT to hear from to type in the code. Many folks are initially put off by this if they are not expecting it. After they see how it works, most want one too. :)
1807944
TAPI here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephony_Application_Programming_Interface Caller ID is thru the phone and if you connect a phone to the phone port line out (not line in) then it is just a pass thru. Once in the old days we wanted to test a modem in a computer and didn't have enough phone cable. So we used 2 modems (line in to line out) to connect 3 phone lines for the distance. Summary? TAPI > I don't know. Caller ID on a phone connected to line out, yes because it is just a pass thru module. Tom