>dave.g4ugm@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