Orchid Dialler Discount

Heinz

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote:

don't forget to re set ya dialler tonite!!

Quentin wrote:

If you followed this poor (though no doubt well intentioned) advice, and re set your dialler last night (Saturday), then you will need to do it again, now that the clocks have really changed!

The manual method of doing so is HERE (change the date and time to the current date and time).

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Quentin wrote:

If you followed this poor (though no doubt well intentioned) advice, and re set your dialler last night (Saturday), then you will need to do it again, now that the clocks have really changed!

Hmm sorry phrased it wrong.... re-set ya dialler after 2am, or like I did at 9am when i got out of bed;)

macca64

bbb_uk wrote:

If you see this thread on SayNo it shows the cheap method available for those unfortunate enough to be with cable. There is also phone.coop who you could use for evening calls. They charge just 4.7p per call (providing call is under 60mins but just disconnect & redial again). I haven't got around to updating that thread but I hope to this week where I'll mention phone.coop

Thanks for the reply. Looks like we will have to get rid of the phonepal that OneTel supplied then. Really need to consider changing back to a BT line, as then you have so many more options than on cable.

macca64

Great service from Orchid - e-mail sent yesterday informing them how I would like them to programme my V4, received a reply today, saying that it had been done!! :T

Superb service. Just need to connect it all up now.

Woby_Tide

:doh: word of warning, I appear to have inadvertantly ticked the 'callback' button on one of my routing tables a few weeks back and it was active for a couple of weeks, got a bill through yesterday with £10 worth of calls to the Orchid caller, 10 calls a day for 2 weeks, all only lasting 14 seconds but with a 5p connection or something. Doh....luckily I switched to another table at that point so should be OK now and it hasn't called back since.

daveram13

Can you use the Orchid Dialler when you have to ring an 08444 number and pause for a recorded message before entering the destination number?

daveram13

Please ignore my query above as I have just discovered from their website that it can be done.

rc3675

daveram13 wrote:

Can you use the Orchid Dialler when you have to ring an 08444 number and pause for a recorded message before entering the destination number?

As you've found out, it can be done, but as I found out, there is a limit on the number of characters (numbers and pauses) you can put into a dial-number.

I wanted to do 121 (revert to BT so that I get a call for my free caller ID) then a pause then an 0844 number then an international number.

Unfortunately, this was so long that it only had space for one pause character, and I really needed a couple more.

If you don't use 121 at the start, then there is plenty of pause time allowed.

iamsam

rc3675 wrote:

I wanted to do 121 (revert to BT so that I get a call for my free caller ID) then a pause then an 0844 number then an international number.

I'm not exactly following you.

Do you have CPS on your phone line? If so, you'd need to do 1280, not 121. Then setting an international/mobile call would need a long number you mentioned (with only the space for one #, but it'd be in the form 12800844...). I don't think 121 or 1280 prefixes need to have a pause after them.

If you're just doing it to fulfil BT's caller ID requirements I'd personally not set it in the router, but have it route 0844 calls to BT and just dial a couple each month manually getting a number from callchecker.

Heinz

iamsam wrote:

In any case, I don't think 121 or 1280 prefixes need to have a pause after them.

True, but you do need a couple (at least) of pauses after dialling the eleven digits of the 0844 gateway number before you dial the 'target' number.