6 rings is pretty standard for a lot of lines
Murphy must have missed me badly, as I've only found one standard telephone number that cut me off over 4 rings or less than 10, and I gathered later they did it that way so callers were ticked and off balance by the time they got
through.
usual is 0,1,2, and 4 (I think 5 is the auto-voicemail she pays for from the local telco) or 10 for some regional telcos. Although some answering machines make it *sound* like 3, I admit.
Uh-Oh. reality check bounced.
Well, uh, YMWV as I live in the USA and PT disabled, haven't had a job since 1995... so 'appallingly ignorant' might
(or might not- I do try and keep up a little) be going through minds at the moment, and if you're elsewhere
(this board is in Australia, yes?) enough from where I am, likely justly so.
My apologies to all for forgetting how wide a world it is on the other side of the packet train.
But I had to say it, so forgive me, please.
OTOH, a very nice thanks for showing me, and possibly a friend of mine, the first logical reason that
*I* can accept (and have heard of, none) for installing the vPBX software on a LAN that has one (1, mine, though the
p-133 laptop has one not used- it's an ebook-reader only, not on the LAN) computer with a microphone, or even
speakers- as the girls want sound only when playing music or a movie to the entertainment system, a room away.
and his wife doesn't want even that.
He has similar motivations for wanting VOIP (but distinctly different resources to apply). He's got WinXP, newer hardware-
and a modem for connection, nothing faster available. I have WinME and below on my machines, an older router, and since
he picked that Gizmo softphone up and it installed without a hitch, I haven't managed to budge him.
Even when it bites him. more than enough said.
If you happen to think of other uses for a one-person vPBX (I don't even have an POTS extension telephone in my end of the house)
please post them, as I'm befuddled enough not to see the obvious yet. On my meds, "newbie" is perpetual, as I forget.
Randomly. Ignore my number of postings, at times I can hold off the haze long enough to stumble into solutions, but I tend to
miss the sensible often.
I'm a newbie anyway.
and the assumption is with a softphone that you'll be close to the computer when it rings
There again it might be a good assumption in some sectors of the VOIP market, but there are exceptions.
With the number of households trying out VOIP in different flavors and labels, probably a great many.
Why *else* would you include an option to route the rings to the speakers rather than the SIP softphone's audio?
6 is just long enough to figure out how futile attempting to get there in time is, but more than the couple-three needed to decide to pick
it up and do so if I'm actually there. IMHO.
I had to figure out for my pal how to do that via the OS for the stupid g-thing and a usb headset for just that reason!
I can't sit here all day- I can't go out much, but I roam the house doing things none-the-less even have to go into the yard,
and would like time (from inside the house) to get to the computer, get the monitor turned on and warmed up (an
instant-on LCD? I'd certainly accept happily the donation of even a 14" one, but *afford* one?
I don't even dream for that these days.) and get the button clicked before the time-out.
It's probably not that isolated a problem. I'll try your solution. thanks again.
-Bob