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Thread: Can you have 2 answering machines in one house...one line?
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Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015, 03:26 PM #1
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Ok, so here's the situation. Downstairs in the kitchen we have a cord telephone and a separate digital answering machine.
Upstairs in my room I have a cordless phone with a digital answering machine as well....
however the problem is, when the phone rings only one answering machine picks up! and they're both set to the same number of rings!
How do I get them both to pick up? that's what I want because I keep thinking one of them doesn't work..and I want to be able to hear messages on both answering machines! (one answering machine is for my parent's and the other one is for me) because only one answering machine is picking up and saying the automatic message "Hello, please leave a message after the tone *beep*"
I never knew this would be so complicated..I just wanted another answering machine in my room...for my needs..:/
How can I make this work?
-Thanks!This thread is currently associated with: N/ALast edited by JDI007; Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015 at 03:27 PM.
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Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015, 03:36 PM #2
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PLain and simple...yes
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Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015, 03:38 PM #3
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I'm not 100% sure, but i think you need 2 separate lines coming into the house. You would have to go to your phone service provider and get another line and phone number, which cost money.
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Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015, 04:57 PM #4
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Aww man seriously..that really sucks Is there no other way? ..darnit :/
beachdown ..how?
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Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015, 05:19 PM #5
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Last edited by lecale; Fri, Oct 30th, 2015 at 02:02 PM.
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Thu, Sep 3rd, 2015, 08:28 PM #6
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Fri, Sep 4th, 2015, 11:02 AM #7
Two options...
- Get a cell phone with voice mail. Have your personal calls go there.
- I wonder if VOIP phones work as it's treated a second line.
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Fri, Sep 4th, 2015, 11:45 AM #8
Possible alternative... some service providers offer voicemail as a service where you could dial *99 from either phone and have access to the mailbox. Downside, extra $$ charge every month.
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Sat, Sep 5th, 2015, 12:15 AM #9
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Yea, thanks guys but I think for now I'll just leave it as it is with just having 1 answering machine since there's no other way..not really worth paying extra just to have another line :/ / not sure what VOIP phone is.
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Sun, Sep 6th, 2015, 01:11 AM #10
VOIP is short for "Voice Over IP". I don't own a VOIP device, so I welcome others to join the conversation.
While your parents can have the landline, you can have a second number on the Internet with a VOIP device. I assume you can attach your answering machine to the VOIP device with a second phone handset.
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Sun, Oct 4th, 2015, 10:22 AM #11
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Sun, Oct 4th, 2015, 10:49 AM #12
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Answering machines are the Stone ages, get voicemail on your iPhone
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