[ubuntu-uk] Recommendation for SIP phone wanted

Alan Lord (News) alanslists at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 16:04:55 GMT 2009


On 25/11/09 15:49, Kevin Safford wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. He he, I'm really looking for a 'quick and
> dirty' solution, but I should have expected the responses I got.
>
> SIP isn't our main phone option - we just use it on those occasions when
> Virgin Media charge us for calls. I'm happy to use the soft phone, but
> my wife would prefer something more traditional.
>
> I'd considered a solution like Alan's but our phones don't need
> replacing yet. I might go down that route when they do, although the
> phone access point and broadband router are in different rooms, so I
> suppose that complicates things.

Not really you only need to run either a LAN cable to near the phone 
socket or run an extension to near the broadband router.

The base station has PSTN, RJ45 & DECT and is completely untethered from 
all the handsets. :-)

Alan




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