Today I finally got ticked off at the phone... I had to dial a number EIGHT times before the dang captioning kicked in before the call connected & I would get a stupid message the captioning had failed. No kidding, CapTel! :roll: So I hit the customer service button -- and even *that* captioning failed!
So, I put my hearing DH (hubby) on and the upshot was that we can't do it wirelessly, even just across the room. Not enough signal strength. So phone is on the computer table next to the computer. DH connected the phone with an Ethernet cable. So now it appears to have solved the problem and the phone is showing full reception instead of 3 marks. I have a couple more weeks to continue evaluating. I'll get my $99 back and send them their phone if the service isn't better. I can always go back to never answering the phone, using my IP-Relay phone number for call backs, and use the free state Captel phone to call out. I'm thinking this technology, while totally worthy if we can actually answer our phones and not worry about incoming captioning or that people calling us are idiots who don't call the special access # to give us captioning. But it's useless if it's going to be erratic service...