From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com
In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:21:19 -0600, Char
Jackson wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:05:50 -0500, micky
>wrote:
>
>>In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:48:10 -0600, Char
>>Jackson wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:03:39 -0500, micky
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Currently my brother is getting old, walks with a walker, has lost his
>>>>cell phone twice, doesn't have or want a new one, has no home phone but
>>>>does have internet, his wife has a cell phone but she goes out without
>>>>him sometimes and he's home, often with a maid/caretaker, but sometimes
>>>>with no one and no way to call out or for others to call in. I would
>>>>gladly pay for VoIPLY or even ooma for him but I think I have to know
>>>>what ISP they use. I dont' think his wife knows that. Is there a way I
>>>>can find out if she doesn't know?
>>>
>>>I used VoIP from about 2003 to 2019 and I never had to worry about my
>>>ISP. They provided Internet access and that's all I needed.
>>
>>Great. But I would need someone to install an RJnn jack (or maybe even
>>some box or other?) and someone to deliver a telephone, right. I can
>>mail him a telephone, but I can't install the jack from here. The
>>phone jack is something that people normally do themselves when it's
>>their own home, right?
>
>Pick up an ATA and configure it at your place, then send it down to your
>brother's place with instructions on making the required connections.
>That should be about all you and he need.
Sounds like a good plan. I'm looking for an ATA now. Maybe a
Grandstream 2-Port HT802.
I didn't realize it could be configured at my house.
I didn't realize it would be this easy. But as simple as her part is,
I'm wondering if my SIL can do her part***
I see that all she had to do is plug in 3 (or 4**) wires, 6 or 8 ends of
wires, but I have my doubts. I hope she can find the router. Maybe
with video phone calls I can get her through this.
**Might plug the ATA into one jack in the apartment and plug their phone
into a jack in some other room, That's one extra wire!.That will work
well.
Paul, they're not going to have more than one extension. They have
no home phone now and they're getting along . They probably won't use
this much, but I want my brother to be able to call out and I want to be
able to call my brother when my SIL is not home. Even when I talk to my
brother, he loses interest in 3 minutes. They don't need two
extensions.
***My brother is 85 and has never been technical but now he's out of it
sometimes. It's hard to tell because he's always been quiet and now
he's quieter even when he's not out of it. My SIL is about 70, and is a
flake. She once sold their apartment and then refused to close, because
a woman she knew got a better price for her apartment. Cost them, that
is, my brother, about 50,000 dollars in lawyers' fees for both sides
plus living expenses for the couple that had to live for months in a
hotel or some place. There was no chance she would win. My brother was
always easy-going and let her do this (although he does complain/tell
about these things to me and my mother when she was alive.)
Another time she bought a business on time, like people buy a car, and
invested $1 or 200,000 in remodeling in a building she did not fully
own, then missed a payment. The owner could have foreclosed and sold it
to someone else with 1/200,000 worth of improvements, and just given
back to my SIL what she had in equity. He didn't but I'm sure he made
her pay quite a bit extra for her screw-up.
She's bought two other businesses in two cities far apart and 100's of
miles from where she lives, and trusts the managers to run them right.
Did this iiuc with the money from her divorce, which is all spent now.
And yet she is basically in charge of my brother's care now. Ugh.
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