It at least has to ring twice before the caller id works. Sometimes depending on the company it may have to ring up to three times. On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Steve Holmes wrote: > I thought I'd play around with the caller ID feature on my modem and > see if I could write an accessible caller id program. I enabled the > CID feature on my modem by doing 'AT#CID=1' and the modem responds > OK. But when I tried ringing my phone recently, All I got was the > "RING" string back from the modem. Does it have to ring more than > once to register it or do I have to do something else? I did arrange > with the phone company to have that service turned on. > > Am I missing anything else? > -- Scott Berry Email: n7zib at bresnan.net