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dual landline/voip phone (for home use)

  • 19-02-2008 12:00pm
    #1
    ablelocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭


    We need to get a new cordless phone for the house - given that we got broadband last week, should we get a phone that can also handle skype calls? Does anyone have one? Are they any good? Any recommendations?


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  • #2
    lensman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭lensman


    ablelocks wrote: »
    We need to get a new cordless phone for the house - given that we got broadband last week, should we get a phone that can also handle skype calls? Does anyone have one? Are they any good? Any recommendations?
    get yourself one of these little gizmos, they connect to your BB router & allow you to connect your normal home phones, DECT, cordless or corded, very easy to setup & use with ntl BB & blueface VOIP service.


  • #3
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,421 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    lensman wrote: »
    get yourself one of these little gizmos, they connect to your BB router & allow you to connect your normal home phones, DECT, cordless or corded, very easy to setup & use with ntl BB & blueface VOIP service.

    +1 they are slick!

    i've had one in constant use for the last 9 months now.... also got one for my brother in Aus, configured it here with blue face, posted it over, now he has an irish 076 number in his apartment... so its dirt cheap for anyone, even poeple on a regular land line to call him, also he gets to make realy cheap calls to here too... .

    At first i wasn't convinced about the whole analogue telephone adapter (ATA), thought it would be better to buy a SIP phone, but with mine i just have a cheap DECT cordless phone plugged into it and its 100%, caller ID even works!!!


  • #4
    lensman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭lensman


    I got mine from the link above for €10 :D some sellers on ebay are charging 4 or 5 times that for the same thing, I tested the blueface service with their €1 free credit trial over the last week & everything is as you say 100%, next step is to give eircom the boot :D:D:D


  • #5
    steve-o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 913 ✭✭✭steve-o


    I have a Siemens Gigaset IP phone that is dual landline and VOIP. It plugs directly into both the landline and router (no need for a separate ATA).


  • #6
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,421 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    steve-o wrote: »
    I have a Siemens Gigaset IP phone that is dual landline and VOIP. It plugs directly into both the landline and router (no need for a separate ATA).

    Yea they do look nice, was going to get something like that... bought the linksys ATA as a stop gap, but have to say i've no reason to change it now its in and working grand....


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