OT: Google Voice question.

[Joseph Sinclair]

I think you misunderstand what Google Voice is.
1) It is NOT voicemail.  It has voicemail, but it's intended to function opposite to a voicemail service.
2) People should be calling your Google Voice number directly; it then forwards to (rings) one or more actual phones (home phone, cellphone, gmail, etc...) and redirects to voicemail if you don't pick up.

The idea is that you give everyone your Google Voice number, but not your home or cell number(s).  Then you can change home or cell service without impact to people who want to call you.
You also gain control options, such as setting some callers to only ring through on weekdays, or setting some callers to ring the home phone but not the cellphone.

So the reason it doesn't work the way you want is that your concept has it behind your normal phone; it's actually the reverse in that your normal phone is *behind* Google Voice.

Hopefully that helps make it clearer.

On 09/13/2012 01:28 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> Google Voice is monumentally confusing (to me).  For longer than I care to
> admit, I have been trying to figure out how to get GV to work the way I
> want it to work.
> 
> Our qwest home phone land line has "call forward, don't answer" set to
> forward to our Google Voice number after 2-to-3 rings, and I finally have
> Google Voice configured to go straight to voice-mail.  However, the
> problem is that after the land line number rings 2 or 3 times, Google
> Voice then rings another FIVE (5) times before GV voice-mail answers.
> 
> I've searched the 'net but am unable to find any way to reduce the number
> of rings. Ideally, I'd like Google Voice voice-mail to answer immediately
> on the first ring (or even with no ring at all).
> 
> Have any of you experienced this problem or found a solution?
> 
> 
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