Can you have 2 answering machines in one house...one line?

[JDI007]

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!

[beachdown]

PLain and simple...yes

[dededi]

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.

[JDI007]

Aww man seriously..that really sucks Is there no other way? ..darnit :/

beachdown ..how?

[lecale]

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[Davetherave]

PLain and simple...yes

Can't think any way around it, please give us more info.

[xlxo]

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.

[beckie.c]

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.

[JDI007]

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.

[xlxo]

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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[frugal50]

Answering machines are the Stone ages, get voicemail on your iPhone