Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 09 Apr 91 09:18:15 -0500 From: Tim Irvin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My New Toy: Call Forwarder From Radio Shack Reply-To: irvin@northstar.dartmouth.edu Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 278, Message 2 of 11 Lines: 36 In TELECOM Digest V11 #277, Moderator writes: > The device takes calls on (relative to it) 'line 1' and forwards the > call on (relative to it) 'line 2'. You call on the device's 'line 2' > to remotely make changes in the forwarded number and turn the device > on or off. Device line 1/2 < = > 2/1 on my phones. So I call on > device line 2 (my phone line 1) and it answers after 17 rings. I tell > it to 'forward' my calls to 1172-new-number. I hang up and call back > on device line 1 (my phone line 2) and my call forces the device to > dial out on phone line 1 '1172-new-number'. Presto, forwarding has > been established, and subsequent calls to my phone line 1 go to > wherever the forwarding (1172) said to go. The only problem is I > cannot change that number or cancel forwarding since after forwarding > has been established, telco controls my line and I can't get near the > device (via phone line 1 / device line 2) until I come home and kill > it with 1173. Let me work on this scheme a little longer. I can see only one way around this, and that requires that IBT and NET have the same features. If you get a distinctive ringing feature on your "phone line 1/device line 2", and have IBT Call Forwarding activated to only work on your Main number (not your distinctive ring number). Then to cancel Call Forwarding, call your distinctive ring number, which will ring through to the Ripoff Shack box and your off and running. And since your distinctive ring number will "ring-ring", you will only have to wait nine rings (actually 8-1/2 :) -- an added bonus. Tim Irvin [Moderator's Note: Bravo! You found the solution, and yes, I do have a distinctive (short double-ring) number attached to my first line and no, it is not set to forward when the main line is forwarded. I have not yet tested to see if your theory of it 'answering in half the time' is valid. PAT]