21 Jul
2023
21 Jul
'23
12:49 a.m.
dave.g4ugm(a)gmail.com wrote:
Their router has a socket you can patch into your
existing phones or it can act as a DECT base station ...
Yeah, all of the residential gateways that I’ve seen have an POTS ATA connection on the
back for the ISP’s phone service. That’s nice if you still have an analog phone, but we
got rid of those years ago. All phones in the house are IP based and we have an Asterisk
server, so SIP is the way to go. BTW, you can get really nice Cisco/Linksys or
Grandstream, or Teledex, etc VoIP phones on eBay pretty cheap. And my wife and I put SIP
clients on our cellphones, so when we’re home we can access the phone network via WiFi.
The VoIP phones are all PoE and there’s special PoE switch with battery backup just for
them.
Regrettably all the ISPs here that offer phone service want to force you to use their
ATA. They never offer a generic SIP connection, which is useless for me.
It’s undoubtedly a more complicated phone system than we actually need, but we’re dweebs
J
Bob