Call Contact

[Mike]

I want to try to call a contact using my laptop. I plug in
a phone line to my modem. I connect (test call to my
second line), I pick up the called line and click talk on
my laptop. I get a message to pick up the handset. There
is no phone involved. The line goes from the wall into the
computer. Am I missing something in Windows Phone dialer?/

Thanks for you help,

Mike

 

[fostertom]

And I want to know how I can dial from Outlook 2002 Contacts, when my phone
line is British Telecom Home Highway (ISDN) and the computer's connected to
the USB port on the HH wall box. Seems Outlook will only dial into an
ordinary PSTN phone line, using an ordinary 56k modem. Well, there's still
an ordinary wall jack outlet which I can connect an ordinary analogue phone
to, and my computer still has its ordinary 56k modem - but how to set all
this up? Extraordinary that Outlook can't handle ISDN - what about
broadband, I wonder?

 

[fostertom]

There's a MS Knowledge base article about this but it's written for Outlook
2000 - tells me to go to Accessories>Communications>Phone Dialler, but
there's none such in Outlook 2002..

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

What you're missing is your phone. The Windows dialer is what it says: a
dialer, not a voice modem. You must have a phone plugged to the outboard
jack of your modem.