Response Point lets me play Hookie

I’ve been working hard on my new SMBNation presentation, and sometimes it’s just too distracting to be in the office with all the hallway interruptions, so I stayed home.  Most of my meetings are over the phone these days anyway, so what difference does it make?

Well, some of my meetings are with people who call me directly.  If I had thought ahead the night before, I would have set my RP phone to forward automatically to my home phone number, but I forgot.  What to do?

Fortunately, there’s Live Mesh, which was already pre-loaded on my work computer (the one on the office LAN that administers the RP phone there).  I simply used the”connect to device” feature of Live Mesh and logged directly into the machine at the office.  No firewall, no NAT, no anything to stop me.  Then it was just a question of firing up the Response Point Assistant to change the call forwarding rules for my number.

One more problem:  my wife uses our home number, and I can’t risk having an important business caller hear a busy signal while she’s yakking with somebody on the PTA.   So I just set up my home Response Point unit with a DID that goes directly to the RP phone on my desk.  The RP at work forwards to that DID.

This worked so well that I think I may be playing hookie more often!