voip phones in the hosue

HighlyCooL

The story so far..... Bought a house and in the process of doing it up. One of the thing we are thinking of doing is wiring it for voip in every room.
We have a 3mb ntl conection and a Rangemax Next Wireless N Cable Router – WNR834B.
I have a few questions as to what needs to be done.
In total i need 9 phone points and 5 computer points. The router only has 4 ports. So do i need to get a hub that will take 14 ports. or what? my head is melted as the floors are going down some time next week and i am going no where.
Another think i would like to know is can you use the voip phones to ring some one in another room.

any help would be great

HC

steve-o

A cordless phone with multiple handsets might make your life much easier
Google Siemens Gigaset IP.

HighlyCooL

yeah that was an option but i have wireless now and the signal isnt great in some parts of the house. so that why i was thinking wired

steve-o

Unless your house is a mansion with walls of lead, I can't imagine any problem with a cordless phone

gerryo

HighlyCooL wrote: »

The story so far..... Bought a house and in the process of doing it up. One of the thing we are thinking of doing is wiring it for voip in every room.
We have a 3mb ntl conection and a Rangemax Next Wireless N Cable Router – WNR834B.
I have a few questions as to what needs to be done.
In total i need 9 phone points and 5 computer points. The router only has 4 ports. So do i need to get a hub that will take 14 ports. or what? my head is melted as the floors are going down some time next week and i am going no where.HC

VoIP is "Voice Over IP", it can use the same wall ports as a computer. I guess you can get a VoIP phone with a built in ethernet switch, or wire 2 computer points to each room, or install a small ethernet switch in each room.

Might be easier to get a bigger ethernet switch with 24 ports, wire 2 to each room, few left over for other devices. You will need them:rolleyes:

(I'm assuming you want each phone to have it's own number, otherwise just get a SIP ATA & just wire up ordinary phone sockets in each room).

HighlyCooL wrote: »

Another think i would like to know is can you use the voip phones to ring some one in another room.
HC

You'll can use a SIP server, like SIP Express Router (SER) or something similar (freeware, runs on a Linux PC).That will give each phone it's own account, you can ring from each room to the other. Not trivial to set up, but is very flexible for the future.

Think long & hard about what you want, might be hard to change later, or cost €€. If I was at the wiring stage in a new build/redevelopment, I'd put a minimum of 2 RJ45 sockets in each room, more in the living room. Put them near power sockets.

Wireless is great, but it won't beat a hard cabled connection.
You can always add wireless access points later, no need to rip up anything.

HighlyCooL

thanks gerryo. finished wireing today. 1000 ft of cat5e. 2 to every room, 2 to the chimney if there ever needed. 2 outside one front and one back for cameras if ever needed, and one out side the front door. so i have them there if there needed. blue face say they let you set up 5 fones to ring at once, but they all have to be sip ones. but i was going to use sip fones any way. i have my wireless router so i can plug switches into that.

whats a SIP Express Router? and what does it do