Icy

Is this a cellular phone?

Kay

No, it's a corded phone. I'm assuming that mobile is the opposite of a corded phone. It came with instructions on a 3" square of cheap paper written in Chimerican. I enlarged it on the scanner but was yet unable to decipher it because of the technical references. Why does the instructions provide me with an IP number? What is auto IP? What's flash time? And Pause Time? And spy prevention? I found FSK and DTMF somewhere on the net and read that they mean Frequency Shift Keying and Dual Tone Multi Frequency, respectively. That doesn't help me at all.
Know that I appreciate your help much.

markj39k

I'll give a few of these a try. First things first. If you plug this phone
into a known working jack, at your house, do you get dial tone?
Several of the things you mentioned will almost certainly be fine at
their default settings (you change nothing) including flash time, pause
time and any DTMF settings. I'm very curious as to the IP address
they gave you. Publicly routable IP address' don't just float around
for free. Music on hold is sef explanatory. Auto Ip is sort of a mushy,
could mean alot of things phrase. Anyway, let us know if
you get dial tone and we'll take it from there.

Kay

Yes, I get a dial tone. At first when I picked uo the phone, I heard a recording saying I wasn't authorized to use this phone. All 4 phones in the house said this. After turning the spy off, the phones had dial tones. This is confusing:" Pressing 0 over 2 seconds will activate Auto IP functions and pressing 0 over 2 seconds again will turn off the function. The default setting is Auto IP, and the IP number is 17909. When pre-dialing or dialing back a number beginning with 0 while auto IP function is on, the set IP number in Auto IP will be added automactically added to the front of the telephone number. If press IP key instead of redial key before predial or dial back a number, the set IP number will be added in the front of the telephone number." I quoted it correctly-it's just written that way. I gave $45. for this thing. I would certainly like to find one made in the U.S.A. I think Siemans makes onr here.













pressing 0 over 2 seconds

markj39k

Kay, It's time to go home, but I'll leave you with a
couple of thoughts. First let's back up again, what
do you want to use this phone for, what "special
functions" do you want/expect this thing to do.
I'm with you, that explanation that was given left
my head spinning. The "IP" number they gave you
almost sounds like a long distance carrier access code
the way they were talking about adding it on to the
number, but I don't think it's the right amount of digits.
It's not an IP number (address) like I'm used to working
with (format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ie 192.168.1.50). An internet
address. If you want to post back I'll give it one more shot.

Kay

Thank you very much for making an effort to help me. I really do appreciate your time.