I have uniden BT capable wireless fone and it is wired "backwards" via house wiring to phonepower.com modem ...gives me phone all over the house. Have one "wired" fone on it in case of loss of power. Phonepower.com will also work with old fashioned fax machine. Phonepower.com also has a "cloned" 2nd line which lets you make/receive calls when one conversation is already in process ...free!!
-----Original Message----- From: Marcio [mailto:m...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 10:46 PM Subject: Re: MagicJack: a VoIP question I have a Vtech cordless phone with two basis. Work fine. Marcio -----Original Message----- >From: Fred Holmes <f...@his.com> >Sent: Jan 1, 2010 9:21 PM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >Subject: Re: [CGUYS] MagicJack: a VoIP question > >The most modern phone you have that works on POTS is a "corded handset". I >suspect one could also use a cordless handset, if one were to plug the base >station into the MagicJack. (just as the base station is plugged into the >RJ-11 wall outlet the same way that a corded handset is plugged into a wall >outlet.) You just couldn't use a cordless handset by itself, without the base >station. What the information is telling you is that the MagicJack does _not_ >include its own handset. Nor does it use a "headset" (like Skype does). Nor >does it use a USB speakerphone (like is available for Skype). It uses a POTS >telephone, connected by the customary cord with an RJ-11 plug on the end. >Anything that electrically looks like a POTS telephone connected with an RJ-11 >plug should work. Dunno if it would accept pulse dialing, haven't tried it. >But so much calling requires DTMF signalling for navigating "menus" that pulse >dialing has limited use today anyway. > >"Corded handset" and "rotary [pulsed] dial" are two completely different >concepts. > >Fred Holmes > >At 06:39 PM 1/1/2010, Robert Carroll wrote: >>(1) Information about MagicJack is appreciated. It seems from the CU >>description that a corded handset is needed -- I might be able to find buried >>in a closet an old rotary-dial phone for MagicJack (if I decide to get same) >>since all my land-line phones are cordless. Can MagicJack understand pulse >>dialing? > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
