[LINK] Q re VoIP phones, RF phones and ADSL

[Tom Worthington]

At 11:53 AM 11/06/2007, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>... considering VoIP phones as a replacement for my dying analogue 
>handsets. ...

If your ADSL line comes bundled with a phone line, you might want to 
keep a cheap wired handset plugged in for emergency calls. If the 
mains power fails, your VoIP service will likely be unusable, whereas 
an old fashioned phone will keep working.

>Second, do DECT phones interfere with wireless LANs, or vice versa? ...

I had problems with DECT and WiFi equipment right next to each other. 
About 1m separation seemed to fix things. But after a year or so I 
gave up on both the VoIP and normal phone; I decided to just use my 
mobile phone instead.

You can buy DECT cordless phones with a VoIP interface in the base 
station. These allow you to select the normal phone line or VoIP 
service on a call by call basis. You can also get cordless WiFi VoIP 
handsets, but these cost more. Putting a DECT and a WiFi handset next 
to each other when both are transmitting may cause interference, but 
you are unlikely to be talking on both at once.

For some VoIP products see my home office shop: 
<http://astore.amazon.com/home-office-20/?node=3>.



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