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Magic Jack Hacks
Have you ever grabbed your credit card in a moment of weakness and called the number of a late night infomercial? It's easy to think that anything with the "as seen on TV" label is a gimmick (the...
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How to Install Fiber Optic Connectors
Fiber optic cables have been instrumental in advancing technological communication. Fiber optics today stretch across oceans and bring Internet connection to remote locations. They provide more...
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What Is a GSM Gateway?
Telephone service providers that use the global system for mobile communications, usually known as GSM, often require a fixed cellular terminal known as a GSM gateway to interface with networks using...
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How to Install a Phone Cord Line Plug Connector RJ22
A land-line telephone typically has a base with a handset. The coiled cord that connects the base to the handset has an RJ22 connector on each end of the cord, one that plugs into the handset and the...
View ArticleInstructions for Caller ID for a Southwestern Bell Model 147B
The Southwestern Bell Caller ID model 147B is the same as the model 144, except that it requires four AAA batteries instead of three AA batteries. This caller ID box stores the names and numbers for up...
View ArticleHow to Call and Listen to Voicemail
When you are unavailable to answer your home telephone or cellular phone, your voicemail will record messages from incoming callers. Similar to an answering machine, voicemail stores and saves messages...
View ArticleHow to Wire a Telephone Headset
A telephone headset relieves the strain of having to hold a telephone receiver against your ear. Wiring a telephone headset directly to a phone line provides an "always on" connection that you can...
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Instructions for a Plantronics Online Indicator
The Plantronics Online Indicator allows others in your home or office know when you are on the phone. This is useful when you want some privacy in your office; others will not bother you while you are...
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How to Run Speakers for IP Phones
An IP (Internet Protocol) phone uses an Internet connection to place and receive telephone calls. You can use almost any model of land-line phone as an IP phone by connecting the equipment to a VoIP...
View ArticleHow do I Convert a Telephone Handset into a Continuity Tester?
A continuity tester is an electrical device that is able to provide either a reading or an aural indication of there being a connection between two electric currents. For a telephone line, a continuity...
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How to Call Forward on a Cincinnati Bell Telephone
Cincinnati Bell provides updated and personalized phone options for your home phone needs. One of these options is call forwarding, which allows your incoming phone calls to be referred to a different...
View ArticleHow to Manually Install Apps on an iPhone
The easiest way to upload an app is to get it from the App store. But many apps are available that are not in the store. To get these apps, you would have to manually install them. To do so, a few...
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How to Replace a Broken Phone Jack
A phone jack is a device that mounts on a wall and connects the main wiring of a phone line to the actual phone with which you want to use the line. While the jack is not very conspicuous in its...
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How to Turn an AC Outlet Into a Phone Jack
You can turn any electrical outlet that is in your house into a phone jack by using a wireless phone jack extender. This allows you to install a phone jack anywhere it is needed. The wireless extender...
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What is a Fax Machine Drum?
A fax drum cartridge is a revolving cylindrical apparatus within the fax machine. When an electronic document is received by the machine, toner mirroring the document is released onto the drum. This...
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Cell Phone Blocking Devices
Cellphone blocking devices disrupt the signal between a mobile phone and its base station. Interrupting these signals can effectively disable cellphone use in a given area. Although illegal in most...
View ArticleHow to Connect a Butt Set to a Telephone Jack
Butt sets are handheld devices used for troubleshooting telephone lines. The form factor of a butt set is similar to that of astandard landline telephone. Butt sets even include a keypad for making...
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How to Compare Calling Cards Without Pay Phone Surcharges
Today there are many different calling cards on the market -- for both domestic and international use. These cards allow you to call long distance over a pay phone or other phone for significantly less...
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How to Check Voice Messages in FairPoint
FairPoint is a communications company that offers Internet access, digital TV and phone services, including voice mail. If you recently subscribed to a FairPoint voice mail account and want to check...
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How to Check Your AT&T Calling Card Balance
AT&T sells phone cards with which you can place local, domestic, long-distance and international calls directly from landlines, cell phones and pay phones by calling a toll-free phone number....
View ArticleHow to Forward Calls With MagicJack
MagicJack is a VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) telephone service that provides subscribers with a USB dongle that they can use with a traditional telephone. MagicaJack requires an Internet...
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How to Record a Landline Conversation
There are many reasons why you might want to record a phone conversation. Perhaps you're experiencing harassing or threatening phone calls and you want to create an audio record of the calls. Maybe...
View ArticleHow to Record Voice Mail Messages to a Computer
There are many perks to using your phone company's voice mail service, as opposed to an answering machine, to capture messages from missed called. For one thing you don't have to maintain any hardware....
View ArticleHow to Reset a FreePBX Password
FreePBX is a program that allows you to access and control Asterisk software. Asterisk is an open-source telephone system software that allows programmers to create and manage their inter-office...
View ArticleHow to Repair a MagicJack
The MagicJack became popular as a way to save money on phone service, but you will not get much value from your MagicJack if it stops working. Luckily, when people have a problem with their MagicJack,...
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How to Block My Phone Number Display
Your cell phone, home or work number is displayed on the screen of the receiver or phone of the person you are calling. Blocking your caller identification prevents the person on the other line from...
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How to Check Resistance With an OHM Digital Meter
Electricity is the flow of subatomic charged particles, called electrons, through wires. As the electrons flow through the wire, they scatter off one another, and also off the surfaces of the wire....
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How to Get Magic Jack Working for My Telephone Number
Home phone services are expensive, especially when making frequent long distance calls. MagicJack is an alternative service using your computer and Internet connection to make and receive unlimited...
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How to Use a Telezapper
The Telezapper is a telephone accessory that detects and blocks telemarketing calls that are made with a computerized auto-dialer. As soon as the user picks up the phone, the device notifies the...
View ArticleHow to: CAT5 Converter to Phone Jack
A Cat5 converter uses the wiring inside of a coaxial cable to transfer data in much the same way as a telephone line. A Cat5 converter can transfer the signal from a phone jack to another room to use...
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How to Splice an Underground Telephone Cable
Underground telephone lines are installed there for protection. Over time, though, they may still develop flaws from cold/thaw cycles or curious animals. Such flaws typically cause moisture intrusion,...
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RJ11 Cable Vs. RJ45 Cable
RJ11 and RJ45 are two specifications for wiring telephone cable to connectors. These designs were sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission, who registered and codified their wiring patterns...
View ArticleCidco SA60-A10 Caller ID Instructions
The SA60-A10 is a caller ID unit manufactured by CIDCO. You connect the unit to your phone and when someone calls the name and number is displayed on the unit's LCD screen. This comes in handy if your...
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What Is the Meaning of RJ-45?
RJ-45, sometimes referred to as simply RJ45, is the technical name for a kind of registered jack. In fact, "RJ" stands for "registered jack" and refers to the wiring pattern used between the male and...
View ArticleInstructions for GE Instajack Phones
There is no actual GE InstaJack phone. InstaJack is a GE product that can be used with any land-line phone. The GE InstaJack gives you the ability to add a land-line phone jack to any room in your...
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How to Wire the Whole House With Magic Jack
MagicJack is a USB phone jack that plugs into your computer and uses your high speed Internet connection to send and receive phone calls. Use a digital cordless phone with multiple handsets to use one...
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What Is External Caller ID?
An external caller ID device connects to your landline telephone connection and informs you visually of the number that is currently calling you. The devices include a LCD display and which also shows...
View ArticleHow to Adjust the Number of Rings With magicJack
MagicJack is Voice Over Internet Protocol hardware that allows you to place calls via an Internet enabled computer. It only costs $29.95 per year to utilize the service. Because service is so...
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How Does a Wireless Landline Work?
If you don't want to be tied down to the landline phone jack locations in your walls, use a wireless phone jack system. These systems allow you to add new landline phone jacks to electrical outlets in...
View ArticleDoes Bluetooth Work With a Landline Phone?
You can buy landline phones that connect to cell phones through Bluetooth and Bluetooth adapters to use wireless headsets with landline connections.
View ArticleWhat Is a 3G Microcell?
A 3G Microcell is a small cellular base station, also referred to as a femtocell. A 3G Microcell is used to extend or improve cellular service in homes and small businesses.
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How to Document a Phone Conversation
Documenting a phone conversation can be very useful for providing evidence in business deals, criminal matters or even customer support training. According to Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the...
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RCN Voicemail Instructions
RCN or Residential Communications Network is a communications company that provides cable, Internet and phone service to several cities across the east coast including New York City, Boston and...
View ArticleAvaya EU24 Instructions
The Avaya EU24 is a module that is used to expand the number of feature buttons and other options on an Avaya telephone. The unit has an additional 24 buttons that can be used to program features, such...
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How to Split a Phone Wire
If you need an extra phone outlet in your home but do not want to go through the hassle and expense of running another phone line and mounting a wall outlet, you can split your phone line with almost...
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Plantronics CS50 Instructions
The Plantronics CS50 Wireless Office Headset System offers users a lightweight, long-range tool for making and receiving calls. Users can roam up to 300 feet away from the base unit, and the headset,...
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How to Automatically Record Telephone Calls
It is possible to record a telephone conversation with minimal equipment. To automatically record telephone calls, you will need to make and receive them from a land-line telephone with a recorder...
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Devices That Stop Telemarketing Calls
The age-old problem of annoying telemarketing calls isn't foreign to anyone with a phone. However, thanks to the technological advancements with Caller ID equipment, bothersome calls like unsolicited...
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How to Make a Voice Changer
Changing your voice to conceal your identity has always been a favorite ploy for pranksters and practical jokers who try to fool family, friends and others. Most people have been targets of this prank...
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How To Use a Telephone Receiver With a Computer
You can connect your computer to just about any electrical audio or video device, such as a camera, camcorder, electric keyboard, VCR and even your telephone. In many cases some form of adapter is...
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