intercept phone lines with pc?

[Icehawk]

hey i was just wondering is there a way or program that makes it so that i can make my phone not ring and make it go to my computer instead? i would apreachate this because ive seen it done before im just not sure how

[phorte]

wouldnt u just plug the phone line into the modem, and use some funky programs. Have a scout around download.com

[hybrid101]

i do just that:P

[Esoltas]

dude, u've gotta watch what you write on the title. Sounds like your trying to stalk someone.

[thoriphes]

*puts away banning stick*

I'd be careful downloading anything from download.com. A lot of their stuff is tainted with spyware.

I'm not sure what you want to do. Do you want to be able to answer your phone through your computer or just have the phone notify you that someone's calling?

[DanontheMoon]

Banning stick? Isn't it more like a Club - A Cudgel, or a Shillealeigh, perhaps?

[InfestedDemon]

the title is mis-leading so im gonna tell a story...
...there was this time, i was ringing my mate and could hear next-doors phone call through the phone...

[danulf]

you heard what where now? :huh:

[evildrummer]

^^ That happens around here sometimes, ill be happily on the phone when suddenly I hear angry old people (my neighbour is a 300 year old grey dragon) so im like WTF?!?!?! But my friend hears it REALLY faint, so it was like weird and then I thought just wait a sec, then I redialled my friend and it was fine.

[Ar3d]

use your modem driver you can see all features as well as the procedure that you wanted..

[t0mm0]

As in you want to be able to dial your computer from another modem when dialling your home phone?

You would plug the modem in, set and in coming connection and rout it to the port modem.

[InfestedDemon]

why not use skype, get a phone number from it (i think £5 a month) and use that as youre primary phone

[ya3]

From what I understand:
- Call comes in
- Computer receives it and tells you who's calling
- Then you can choose to redirect it to your phones, or leave it...

Right?

[Anogar]

From what I understand:
- Call comes in
- Computer receives it and tells you who's calling
- Then you can choose to redirect it to your phones, or leave it...

Right?

Nonono, like this:

- Call goes out
- Stalker's PC intercepts it and records it
- Then you choose to butt in on the conversation in your creepy stalker voice or not.

:|

[hybrid101]

^wouldn't that be against the law

[Icehawk]

naw sorry i should have put a better description
this is what i need
i have 3 phones in my house.
i was wondering if there is a way so when somebody is calling me (incoming call) will go to the computer instead of my phones. and i can choose to answer or not from there? i dont care if im able to pickup or not pretty much i just want to be able to tie up the phone line so nobody hears the call in my house

[hl]

Mm, what if it's not for you..

[hybrid101]

why do you want to do this in the first place anyway?:puzzled:

[Pasquale]

I've wondered about this. *eager to find answer*

[Icehawk]

if you skip at school they call your house around dinner time and it tells your parents what you missed lol

[hybrid101]

6haha, had that happen to me once, but it was about grades:P

[evildrummer]

great Idea! Apart from my school normally sends letters and my parents get in before me :(

[phorte]

at my high school, my mum just used to email the office if i was sick, and not comin to school that day. Sooo, technically i could of just faked an email from mum to the office, but sometimes they would call just to check, so i was never willing to take the risk.

[hybrid101]

lol ,we send our excuse letters the day after we are absent:P

[Pasquale]

Im sure it is possible. I think it would breally handy to have the functions of a phone on a machine, so you can have a groovy headset mic all hooked up.
It would be so sexy.