I know IP Daley has the superguide but I swear I'm just too much of a novice with this stuff to be able to understand it. I'm really just a complete idiot here.
I work from home two days a week and have to call into meetings often. We only have a cell phone, but sprint sent us this free airwave (?) system that basically creates a cell tower in our house, so we have great service now -- no more dropped calls. However, today I was unable to dial in to the conference call because of what I think must be an obscure ios (8.0.2) issue -- I could call the number fine, but when I went to the keypad to enter the meeting ID, I kept getting an error message "Meeting ID is not valid." I wasn't even able to dial "9#" for help -- so I think something weird is happening with the keypad that comes up after you are already on a call. It makes no sense, I know, but no one else was having issues dialing in so that's all I can think of.
Anyway, I'm thinking I should maybe just get an actual home phone. I'll lose telework privileges if I don't get this fixed, and I *hate* going into the office. The iphone audio quality isn't the best either so I may have a better time in general on meetings if I have a real phone.
Verizon said it would cost $40 a month to add a landline to our internet, which we are already overpaying for at $70/month, so uh no thank you.
I know another option is to use Google Voice or Skype or something through my computer, but my work computer has all sorts of restrictions on it. I tried to use Google Voice when calling in this morning and couldn't get it to work, and I'm pretty sure I can't download Skype.
So is VoIP an option for me? Please explain as though I am about 8 years old.