Re: [H] cell to land line
With unlimited mobile-mobile calls these day one would almost think of doing the reverse by bridging a second cell phone with a land line to achieve unlimited cell phone minutes on the cheap. Using VoIP it becomes even more doable. I like this idea since you could have lowest possible service on the cells and have unlimited minutes since the call would ultimately go out via VoIP. =) As to cutting the cord there are a few choices out there including one from Motorola that's part of their SD4500 series Cordless phone system where you dock your Motorola cell use it from the cordless phone. Caveat being it's expensive (IMHO), 2.4GHz and appears limited to wireless i.e. not a bridge. http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/sd4505/ Seems there are also cell to wire converters out there that don't need a cell phone dock but rather you would add the bridge unit to your cell plan as another phone. I'm sure there are others in-the-middle that let you dock a cell patch it into your existing house wiring. Jim Edwards wrote: I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? Jim
[H] cell to land line
I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? Jim
Re: [H] cell to land line
At 06:33 AM 12/12/2005, Jim Edwards typed: I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? If the cell phone is always clipped to your belt then why do you need to go thru all this? FWIW I did dump the land line went all cellular a few years ago. I didn't bother with the land line hardware at all didn't miss them taking up space either. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] cell to land line
I would do that if it weren't that I use DSL... :( Wayne Johnson wrote: At 06:33 AM 12/12/2005, Jim Edwards typed: I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? If the cell phone is always clipped to your belt then why do you need to go thru all this? FWIW I did dump the land line went all cellular a few years ago. I didn't bother with the land line hardware at all didn't miss them taking up space either. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] cell to land line
Jim, We have had two cell phones since '88 and about four years ago we took a good look at what we were getting with the landline. We decided that it would be better to just get rid of it. I think it was a good judgment as we have long distance anywhere and could have all the minutes we could use, for a price of course. The two phones cost, under the Family Plan cost just a little bit more than two landlines, including many taxes, and have the long distance on top of it. I don't think it is any more expensive. The only issue we have ever had with Verizon is billing, but that happens with all of them. I'm certain someone will have something interesting to say about the other side of the story so I'll get off here right now. Jeff - Original Message - From: Jim Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [H] cell to land line I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? Jim
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Amen to thatno more cords except a charger which can be anywhere. - Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [H] cell to land line At 06:33 AM 12/12/2005, Jim Edwards typed: I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? If the cell phone is always clipped to your belt then why do you need to go thru all this? FWIW I did dump the land line went all cellular a few years ago. I didn't bother with the land line hardware at all didn't miss them taking up space either. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/198 - Release Date: 12/12/2005
Re: [H] cell to land line
You can subscribe to low-cost/no-frills landline service to qualify for DSL. In my area (northern CA) measured rate local service is only about $8 per month. That way you can still use fax, use dial-up when broadband is down, plus have the advantage of better 9-1-1 service. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would do that if it weren't that I use DSL... :( Wayne Johnson wrote: If the cell phone is always clipped to your belt then why do you need to go thru all this? FWIW I did dump the land line went all cellular a few years ago. I didn't bother with the land line hardware at all didn't miss them taking up space either.
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The other problem is convincing my wife to not use the land phone. Personally I'd get rid of all of my phones and move to the country but that's not practical. Gary VanderMolen wrote: You can subscribe to low-cost/no-frills landline service to qualify for DSL. In my area (northern CA) measured rate local service is only about $8 per month. That way you can still use fax, use dial-up when broadband is down, plus have the advantage of better 9-1-1 service. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - From: Ben Ruset [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would do that if it weren't that I use DSL... :( Wayne Johnson wrote: If the cell phone is always clipped to your belt then why do you need to go thru all this? FWIW I did dump the land line went all cellular a few years ago. I didn't bother with the land line hardware at all didn't miss them taking up space either.
Re: [H] cell to land line
Jim, I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? A while back, I remember seeing a small docking station that you could cradle your cell phone in, and it allowed you to plug in another phone, like a cordless, so you could answer the cell phone with the regular phone, as long as the cell was cradled. Vince
RE: [H] cell to land line
http://www.coolproductz.com/dockntalk.htm That's what you need 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Analyst Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:26 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] cell to land line Jim, I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? A while back, I remember seeing a small docking station that you could cradle your cell phone in, and it allowed you to plug in another phone, like a cordless, so you could answer the cell phone with the regular phone, as long as the cell was cradled. Vince
Re: [H] cell to land line
Well, if you like Linux, and you can get a bluetooth phone (check supported list), you could setup an Asterisk server with Bluetooth, and pair the phone up, and take incoming calls via the cell phone, and even record voice mail, or forward them out via an ITSP to another phone, etc. Another option would be to port your landline to something like www.teliax.com with a pay as you go plan, and forward the calls to your cell phone, and setup voice mail on it to email you. Harry On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 17:52 -0500, Jim Edwards wrote: At 12/12/2005 01:38 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote: If the cell phone is always clipped to your belt then why do you need to go thru all this? FWIW I did dump the land line went all cellular a few years ago. I didn't bother with the land line hardware at all didn't miss them taking up space either. I have a family cell plan with myself, wife and the p.a. kid. We have had the same home number forever. Everyone has the home number including school, Dr.s, etc. I don't want to get rid of the number. So I can pay $24 for the land line or add it to the family plan for $9.99. But it could easily get miss-placed (son) or end up in the back of the house when we are in front or in front when we are in back. So I thought to just tie in the cell to the land system and when we go out of town, we never miss a call.
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At 05:57 PM 12/12/2005, Harry McGregor typed: forward the calls to your cell phone Before I went all cellular I forwarded all my calls to my cell when I was out of town. In the land line phone system that I had I programmed a macro so all I had to do was click one button to have the calls forwarded. Occassionally I had to tell callers that I wasn't in town I would get but I called your home routine so later I just changed my cell voice mail to say I wasn't in town please leave a message if it was urgent then I would return the call but otherwise they waited. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] cell to land line
- Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [H] cell to land line At 05:57 PM 12/12/2005, Harry McGregor typed: forward the calls to your cell phone Before I went all cellular I forwarded all my calls to my cell when I was out of town. In the land line phone system that I had I programmed a macro so all I had to do was click one button to have the calls forwarded. Occassionally I had to tell callers that I wasn't in town I would get but I called your home routine so later I just changed my cell voice mail to say I wasn't in town please leave a message if it was urgent then I would return the call but otherwise they waited. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com As I recall from the old days you should be able to forward any of your landline calls to cell if you have a call conferencing feature on your landline, and you can, optionally, answer them if you wish. Jeff.
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At 07:40 PM 12/12/2005, jeff.lane typed: As I recall from the old days you should be able to forward any of your landline calls to cell if you have a call conferencing feature on your landline, and you can, optionally, answer them if you wish. IIRC 3 way calling was in the same pkg as call forwarding but one didn't have to have one to have the other but what struck me as weird was that one had to get the next pkg up to get cancel call forwarding. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] cell to land line
- Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [H] cell to land line At 07:40 PM 12/12/2005, jeff.lane typed: As I recall from the old days you should be able to forward any of your landline calls to cell if you have a call conferencing feature on your landline, and you can, optionally, answer them if you wish. IIRC 3 way calling was in the same pkg as call forwarding but one didn't have to have one to have the other but what struck me as weird was that one had to get the next pkg up to get cancel call forwarding. Here, again back then, it was separate. The phone company got all it could as usual. I had that issue when trying to set up some schools that I had as clients years ago. It worked very well then as I had an expansion board with some great software that allowed the transfer of the calls. I can't, for the life of me, remember what the name of the hardware or software was.
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At 08:03 PM 12/12/2005, jeff.lane typed: Here, again back then, it was separate. Back then we used 2 cans on a string but I imagine that kids these days don't have to rough it either. I use to go out into the woods cut down saplings to make spears we'd throw them into a old bicycle tire [like lawn darts] when we weren't using them as hoola hoops before hoola hoops were invented the hell we caught for nailing our roller skates to boards then we found out screws worked better as long as they didn't go thru the board. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
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- Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [H] cell to land line Back then we used 2 cans on a string but I imagine that kids these days don't have to rough it either. That may still be the most reliable way...three cans on the end and there's call conferencing.
Re: [H] cell to land line
If you don't mind spending $25-$30 per month, you can sign up for Vonage VoIP telephone service. They offer a ton of options included in your monthly fee - including being able to have all calls that go to your (VoIP) land-line also forwarded to any other number concurrently - this includes your cell phone. Note that with this setup you can have all calls go to your Vonage land-line and then ring for however long you want (I have mine set to 40 seconds) and then if you don't pick up it will automatically ALSO be routed to your cell phone while your land-line continues to ring. That way, if you're home you can pick up your land-line, and if you're out of the house the call will also ring on your cell phone. PROS: you keep your land-line number; you only need to give out one phone number (your land-line number); you never have to manually 'forward your land-line to your cell phone when you leave the house; you never miss another call CONS: extra cost of $25-$30 per month; reduced 9-1-1 service (it goes to a regional center); requires (reliable) cable/DSL service Mike Resnick At 06:33 AM 12/12/2005 -0500, you wrote: I've been thinking about ditching verizion telephone service and just adding a cell line with the home number. It would be nice if I could integrate two 900 MHz telephones for use since the cell is small and does not make a loud enough ring to here throughout the house. Anybody have experience in this or has looked into something like this? Jim __ Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - Benjamin Franklin
