Best Answering Machines for Line

Yes you need to use the DSL line filters that come with your DSL service, but they already had one, so it was just click it in.

While searching for a different answering machine, I read a review by someone who thought of placing a DSL filter on the same phone line as the answering machine.

I have it set at four and yet testing it from another line right now, I hear five rings on the phone itself, and then my Voice Mail service picks up, rather than this answering machine.

The Bottom Line: Not bad, but don't count on it lasting very long!

This is less expensive than paying a monthly fee for an on line answering service.

Phone company is not yet able to provide voice mail on the second number (distinctive ring, not a separate line), so I opted for a physical answering machine.

The unit is easy to set up, logical in the way it functions, and takes up very little counter space (though I don't like the way the telephone line connector cord is hard wired into the unit, itself, so you'll have to replace the entire machine if th...