Phone Lines / Routing Etc. - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

tvpierce · #1 06-23-2006, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ncof300d

I remember someone once having a setup when you called the number there was an anouncement that directed you to press 0 for their home business and 1 for their home. They physically had two different telephones (one for business and one for home). I believe that there was some sort of device that received and routed the calls and it used only one incoming phone line with no special features from the phone company.

Are you sure that wasn't just an answering machine? Answering machines with 4 "in-boxes" are readily available. (the idea is that you'd have on for you, one for your wife, one for each child, etc.)

If you want to be able to conduct 2 different conversations simultaniously, you need a second line (or a sophisicated business system). As was indicated earlier, all the phone jacks in your home have 4 wires leading to them. You are only using 2 of them. So you have the capacity for a second line in your home already. Simply call the phone company, and they will connect the other 2 wires to a new number, and you'll be in business.