Please - Home telephone, help needed...

Oriel

Folks,
I have a standard telehone line at home. I'm looking to buy the "BT Freestyle 6100 Digital Cordless Phone" - basically I'm looking for a standard cordless phone for my parents.
What exactly defines a "Digital" phone, and will it work with a normal analogue telephone line?
I'm doubtful of the DECT terminology.

Any help?
Cheers,
S.

PowerHouseDan

It just means digital Display?LCD

Mossy Monk

it will work fine

Oriel

I thought DECT was some kind of communication method. Like the same thing you get in an office - that can take internal calls and has different ring tones for internal/external calls etc, but not for the average home phone.

I know my computers, but I'm afraid I'm not really that clued up on phones

It's one of those grey areas:
"Digital European Cordless Telecommunications"
"Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications"

etc.

S.

Asok

Digital is the transmission method it uses. Its the standard on most cordless phones now that they have scrapped the analogue ones which made for great listening It will work fine for them. Think of it as the difference between the tech the old 088's used and what was used with 087

SillyWilly

This isn't the right forum. I will move it to Nets/Comms.

Oriel

SillyWilly,
I would agree with you, but for that fact that:

• I'm usually like you, so Sssshhhh.
• The Net/Comms fourm has one post per month/new RTE program
• This should be in the "What to buy for Christmas fourm", but I'm buying mine at this present moment in time, as we speak.
• I'm usually like you, so Sssshhhh.

If we whisper, the mods won't notice.

S.

Calibos

Asok wrote:

Digital is the transmission method it uses. Its the standard on most cordless phones now that they have scrapped the analogue ones which made for great listening It will work fine for them. Think of it as the difference between the tech the old 088's used and what was used with 087

To clarify what ASOK means:

This DECT digital cordless phone will work with your analogue phone line. The digital bit is how the handset communicates with the base station not with your actual phone line. Old cordless phones communicated with their base stations via analogue signals and these could be listened in on by someone in the vicinity with a suitable radio reciever, much like you could listen in on old analogue mobilephone calls (088 Eircoms old analgue mobile network). The digital wireless communication between modern digital dect phones and their base stations are encrypted digital signals and cannot be listened in on.

Once your encrypted digital conversation gets from your handset to your basestation it is converted to analogue by the base station and sent down your analogue phone line like a normal phone call. The only way someone can listen in once its traveling along wires rather than through the air is by someone hanging from the telephone pole outside your house :D

Lump

What he said Boo, you got in ahead of me! Also the analogue phones have a massive ariel hanging out of them.

John

johnnyrotten

PowerHouseDan wrote:

It just means digital Display?LCD

No, it means digital signal as opposed to an analogue signal
DECT - Digital Electronic Cordless Telephone.
The signal can't be picked up on scanners or baby monitors
The Signal is Crystal clear and the phone will have a better range that an analogue one.
It works fine on an "analogue" line - the technology is in the phone itself

Beruthiel

sinecurea wrote:

If we whisper, the mods won't notice..

ppssssss
I notice everything young man

Tobias Greeshman

As someone already said, using a Digital phone means the signal can't be picked up by other devices. I remember a few years ago on the Gerry Ryan (yes I know he's a spanner and I no longer listen to him!) show a woman rang in telling how she was listening to the radio when all of a sudden she could hear her neighbour's conversation on the phone through the radio. Using a digital phone stops this from happening, have one at home, works fine on the phone line.

Oriel

Ach Beruthiel, go back to yer own corner... :rolleyes:
Cheers Folks!

S.