[dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.

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-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Porter, Mark
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:25 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 3:18 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Determine if modem should answer or not.
> 
> 
> Okay, I have a problem, that I am relatively clueless on
> where to start.
> I'll try to make this short and sweet.  My best friend in the 
> world lives
> about 1000 feet from me.  She has had a cell phone, and cell 
> phone only for
> a while.  Her budget is very tight.  She has a computer 
> (actually a little
> better then my home desktop), but no way to get on the internet.  She
> doesn't have cable, and until recently, no land phone.
> 
> Her mother is getting her a land phone.  Now she would like internet 
> connectivity.  So would I, cause I would like to be able to just email 
> her sometimes!  Problem, even really cheap dialup is $9.99 a
> month, and that's
> money she can barely spend.
> 
> I, on the other hand, have a SCREAMING DSL connection (3 mgb
> down, and 384kb
> up).  I also have Windows 2000 server, which has Routing and 
> Remote Access,
> so I can actually connect her to my network, and thus out to 
> the internet,
> through RAS.  That, I can do.  Problem, one, I have no modem. 
>  (I'm working
> on that!)  Two, I only have one phone line, and there is no 
> reason for me to
> have 2.  The second line would be just for her, and would also be more
> expensive then her just getting dialup. If I connect my home 
> phone to my
> server, however, it will answer on every call.  Sort of 
> annoying, because
> then I lose my answering machine, and I wouldn't get 
> messages.  What I need
> to do, is to have the modem pickup, only if the caller id 
> (which I have)
> matches HER home number. (If she wants to call me, she can 
> call me with her
> cell).
> 
> Any ideas?  I know I'll need to use Telephony, but that is
> the limit of what
> I know on this subject.
> 
> Drew