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Using PC as a telephone

  • 14-04-2005 1:14pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking into using my PC to dial through my telephone, but I haven'e exactly been able to figure out what to do.

    The general idea is to use the existing MS Outlook Contact list as the numbers, and simply by clicking on the particular contact, I can dial his number through my modem and the existing telephone land line.

    I am not talking about a VoIP service, purely about using the fibre phone line, with the PC acting as the handset.

    Has anyone done this, or any ideas/suggestions about what to do and whats required.

    The PC has two phone jacks, so it may be possible to connect the phone line to one, and an old handset to the other, and still using Outlook as the phonebook.

    Any help would be greatly appreiciated


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    If you have speakers/earphones and a microphone, you can use pretty much any machine as a telephone. I've never done it myself, but if you ask it to, it should automatically detect incoming calls and allow you to make outgoing calls.

    Dialer is a bog standard app that comes with Windows installs, but I don't know if it'll allow Outlook integration.


  • #3
    Gilgamesh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Gilgamesh


    the second Jack on your modem is to let you connect a handset, not a phone to it.
    I don't believe it is possible to to PC dialling for the phone on a normal phone line.
    AFAIK it would only work with an IP based phone and line


  • #4
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    You use a mic connected into your soundcard (pink socket) instead of a regular handset.

    There's probably a lil bit on configuring to do in outlook and your modem properties...county code, country code, tone/pulse dialing etc.

    VoIP is the way to go tho. Skype is excellent with a broadband connection. I talk to my mate in Slovakia PC-PC and you'd swear he was in the next room.

    Plus you can use Skype In/Out which means you can receive and make calls via your PC. For Skype Out, you purchase credit online. Bit like ready to go mobiles. Call rates are very cheap.

    Another service to check out is Babble.

    Dara.


  • #5
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    humaxf1 wrote:
    VoIP is the way to go tho. Skype is excellent with a broadband connection. I talk to my mate in Slovakia PC-PC and you'd swear he was in the next room.

    Plus you can use Skype In/Out which means you can receive and make calls via your PC. For Skype Out, you purchase credit online. Bit like ready to go mobiles. Call rates are very cheap.

    Another service to check out is Babble.

    Dara.

    Cheers

    If you have Skype In/Out, do you have to be connected to receive calls. I'm presuming that your PC needs to be on and be connected to the net to receive incoming calls, essestially its like using audio with MSN Messenger??


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