Thread: stuff for VOIP
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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2006-03-15, 22:26

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Originally Posted by bruce
Regarding vonage, incoming calls go through the vonage box,
even if we have detatched our computers from the network?
Yes, the calls are routed through the phone adapter. The output of the phone adapter can be connected to your home wiring, or to and expandable base system. (I like in a multi-dwelling unit and do not have personal access to my phone wiring so this is what we use.)

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We have DSL through our local phone company, but for some
reason, it often happens that we have no dial tone for phone calls,
but we still have DSL. Do you think the vonage line would work in this
situation? It sounds great if that is the case.
Yes it would. DSL and voice run on different frequencies on your home's phone wiring. So just because the landline is down doesn't mean you VoIP line will go down. However, if you DSL line goes down then your VoIP line will too. In that case, any VoIP service or net based service would be dropped too so not really a big deal. There is the SoftPhone also and it does work for Mac. This works will to hotspot or if in a hotel type of situation. Then again, it can work in your own home.

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