I had a Medtronic pacemaker put in about a year and a half ago. I been using the CareLink Monitor to send data to their network about each three months. The device looks like a telephone answering machine. When it connects it sounds like a 1200 baud modem.
I do not have a landline (standard) phone service. I use Skype for my phone service.
So when I send the data I go over to the apartment office and they let me use their phone line.
I think I am going to let Charter Cable hook me up with their phone service. They been trying to get me to add the service. They want to own me. I take the cable Internet service and their cable television service so they want me to add phone service.
I wonder if my CareLink Monitor will see the phone service as a normal phone service or will it still see it as a Skype like digital service?
Anyone know? I can call the Medtronic Patient Services 1-800 number and ask them.
Sure would be nice if they had a device that worked with the computer. Have a CareLink Monitor device that you plug into the USB port of your computer and you send the data that way.
I should have a phone service that I can use at anytime for the CareLink Monitor.
I use the device to send the data from the pacemaker each three months and I do not have to go to the doctor’s office.
But if I ever started having problems I could hook up and send the data to them but I would need a real phone line. So it would be a good idea to have access to a real phone service.
I just did a search and a Charter site says that Charter Phone works though regular telephone jacks and phones. I bet the CareLink Monitor will work just great with Charter phone service.
