Vonage Question: Forwarding to Cell Phone

[aphex]

I have my vonage line set up so that all calls to my Vonage line, automatically and simultaneously ring through to my cell phone at the same time. Caller-ID from the incoming caller shows up on the cell as well, its great.

Problem is, when i try to call my vonage line FROM my cell phone, it rings back through to my cell phone, which my cell in turn sees that the Caller ID is my cell phone number, so it shuffles me immediately into my cell phone voicemail. It never even rings at home.

Any ideas on how i can get around this? (short of turning off the simultaneous ring)

 

[Ameesh]

i have this same problem too

 

[dabuddha]

lol

sorry it just sounds funny.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i have this same problem too

I thought about possibly setting up ANOTHER number at my house line that wouldnt ring through to my cell, but i dont feel like paying any more per month if its not needed.

 

[FoBoT]

why do you want to call home if you have forwarding setup?

 

[QED]

Can you try calling your house using the *67 prefix first to block caller id?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why do you want to call home if you have forwarding setup?

Why would i want to call home? Uhm, there are people there i want to talk to?

What kind of question is that?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: MathMan
Can you try calling your house using the *67 prefix first to block caller id?

Does *67 prefix work on a cell?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why do you want to call home if you have forwarding setup?

sometimes a house has more then one person living there?

 

[FoBoT]

then turn off the forwarding if someone is home. nobody home, forward calls. somebody home, don't forward calls


with sunrocket you can set it up to ring X times before forwarding, does vonage allow you to do that?

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: MathMan
Can you try calling your house using the *67 prefix first to block caller id?

Does *67 prefix work on a cell?

It should... a cell phone is just a wireless extension of a landline circuit.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
lol

sorry it just sounds funny.

Heh. that's what I thought too.

Sunrocket gives you an exxtra line at no charge still right? Culd switch to them and use the second line for calling home.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
then turn off the forwarding if someone is home. nobody home, forward calls. somebody home, don't forward calls


with sunrocket you can set it up to ring X times before forwarding, does vonage allow you to do that?

yes it does.

 

[astrosfan90]

With SunRocket you get two numbers, but not two phone lines per se. Just to clarify. It allows you to select a local number and one from elsewhere if you want one, say, to allow your remote family or friends to call you as though you were local.