Dialing a phone number with cable modem

Hi, I am writing an email check program and I want it to call my pager when certain emails has arrived. But the problem is I am using a cable modem and I have no idea how to make it dial my pager number. Please if anybody know of any way to do this?

You can't dial a phone with a cable modem. You'll need a normal modem for that.

If that is so, then how come net2phone can dial a phone number with cable modem?

Net2Phone works using the Internet to convert the analog signal to a digital signal that can be sent over the cable modem. The signal gets sent to the central server, then the server sends it to the person that you are calling. Their software acts like a software based modem.

Try http://www.DialPAD.com

Thanks for your responses, although now I have installed a normall modem on my system. But steel not sure how to do the thing I asked you.

Pleas help me if you can it is very neccessary for me to do this.

Thanks in advanced.

You will probably want to make a program that downloads the email from your server and reads the headers (subject, date, from). If the header has the text that you want, for instance, you receive an email from [email protected], you can forward the message to your pager. If your pager is text based, and you have AT&T service, you probably have a mobile email address where you can receive messages. (Usually YourPager#@mobile.att.net). You can have the message forwarded to this address. If you don't have a text based pager, I don't think this kind of program would work for you, but you could try making a program that shells out to the phonedialer included with Windows. You can use SendKeys to send the phone number of your pager, and then wait for a connection, then use SendKeys to send your computer number. It sounds pretty complicated. I hope you know what is ahead of you.

There is a tip on this web site titled: Dialling the Phone without MSCOMM control
Maybe it will help you.

you should be able to dial to any device if you intall VPN (Virtual Private Network).

its located in add/remove programs, in windows setup under communications

Hope it helps


-Lumin

Thanks to everybody for their tips. I will try to write the program again if I had any success i will give a message on the board.

Appreciate all the helps.

Thanks to D12Bit for his/her tip on changing my signiture.
;)

We are here to help in whatever we can at the moment

BTW, i'm male and it was no problem...;)


Saludos...;)