Communicate! i2000

Video phoning, Internet paging, and faxing are combined in one easy interface. Add audio and video snippets to e-mail, manage voice mail and fax scheduling remotely, and set up your own unattended bulletin board system (BBS), using regular phone lines or a dedicated Internet connection.

The learning curve is pretty gentle, too; while some of the newer or more advanced features might take some tweaking, you can jump right in and start making calls or faxes right away. Don't worry about translating your contact data from other programs, either--Communicate! i2000 offers plenty of import and linking features so you should be able to access any information from almost any software.

If you want to consolidate your communications software into one inexpensive, comprehensive package, Communicate! i2000 should be your first choice. When you're videoconferencing, reading e-mail, sending faxes, and on the phone with your stockbroker simultaneously, you'll wonder how long it'll take to get your jetpack and food pills. --Rob Lightner

Amazon.com Product Description
Now you can turn any PC into a robust, Y2K-compliant unified messaging, communications center. Complete with Internet video/phone/fax, e-mail, voice, fax, paging, and data, COMMUNICATE! i2000 gives you everything you need to communicate with the world. The easy-to-use, intuitive interface and comprehensive contact manager take the hassle out of organizing voice, fax, pager, and e-mail messages and actually reduce paperwork so you'll have more time to concentrate on business. COMMUNICATE! i2000 pushes communications software one step further, offering advanced video capabilities that let you send video files, perform live video phone conferencing, and even monitor your office or home while you're away. COMMUNICATE! i2000 supports one analog modem line for telephony functions and an optional dedicated Internet connection via a second analog modem, ISDN modem, broadband cable modem, broadband xDSL modem, or even T1/T3/Internet through a proxy server. Users who need to increase the number of lines can purchase an upgrade to allow their COMMUNICATE! i2000 to support up to four modems.

But be sure to have a compatable modem before you start


modems are unavailable or no longer supported   December 22, 2001
THOMAS R. HADDOX (west linn, or USA)
i have tried compro version 2 and had to go back to my old speaker phone and answering machine

so i upgraded to version 5
same thing ..bound and determined to make it work .. 4 modems
later (communicate points at the modems)

one modem manufacturers tech support told me to give up on the software and move on

being a little hard headed i hired a certified technician to come to my office to straighten it out, he removed sound cards, configured, re-configured, tried all 4 of the modems i had purchased, tried windows 98, windows me, downloaded drivers from obscure web sites, smoked a pack of cigarettes and left
scratching his head
so..before you buy this software, try to find a modem from the list at 01com.com look over the list very carefully to see if has the features you want
then try to find the modem. don't bother going to local super store they only sell current, supported hardware
it is not on the shelf i assure you
try the auctions
then..... try to find support for the outdated modem or updated drivers....
so it is back to the old answering machine i guess


Sadly the worse purchase I 'ever' made...   July 17, 2001
R. Williamson (San Diego, CA USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

I made it a point to come here and write this review. But one star is wrong... it should be 'negative' 5 stars! Perhaps I can spare someone else the nightmare that I endured.

I'm disabled and depend on phone communications to make a living. I wanted the best. After 3 months, 2 modems, at least 100 hours of frustration and a dozen emails to the support department -- this software sits on the shelf collecting dust! It is completely unusable. They assured me that it would provide basic phone functionality with my current modem (Creative Blaster) by email `before I bought it'... but it does not and `after I bought' they're story changed.

Hear's what you're buying: conversations fade out (you think the other person paused but no...), you must adjust the volume between dialing and talking or your ears will bleed (the dialing beep can be heard in the next city), it won't `beep' after the answering machine message (you have to add your own), it doesn't notify you when a message is waiting, if you link it to Outlook it zaps Outlook every time you look up a number, and on occasion it cuts messages off at 3 seconds... and there's more. The over all design is terrible, its hard to use and its completely over engineered.

'After' I bought it they said 'oh, won't work with that modem'. I switched to my 2nd PC which had 'approved modem' on their list... same thing! Which says to me that they would have me go out and purchase another modem and install it for nothing. The next thing they told me was, 'Oh, you must not use your sound card' - well, who needs multimedia anyway. BTW, freeware works fine with my modem and sound card... *freeware*!

Perhaps, if you work down the modem list and get just the right one, devote your entire sound system to Communicate! i2000 and devote the next 3 months of your life to messing with all this... you might be able to phone home! I never even got to try the other features.

Of course I'm beyond the refund period. I'm stuck, they won't refund my money (they got me!). Money truly wasted but it is the `time' I wasted on it that really cost me.

I'd sell it cheap but... I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy.

Yes... Commnicate! I2000's features sound so nice don't they -- unfortunately you need to press `redial' on this one and move on... as quickly as possible!


Compatability Issues   July 6, 2001
Roy Pfleger (Port Jefferson Station, New York United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have yet to resolve the compatability issues with this software and the modem. Anyone interested in the software should contact the i2000 technical support team for a list of modems that are compatible with the software. Though the software boasts of the feature rich content. (which is why I purchased it for a small business ap out of my home). I will purchase a compatible modem and give it a shot.