Phone Question - RJ11 or VOIP

[jyl]

This is a random-ish question, but I am always surprised at how much random-ish knowledge PPOT has. . .

I have a RJ11 phone jack in room 1, and am planning to have a phone with base station/handset in room 2, without stringing cable between the rooms. Any such thing as RJ11-to-WiFi then WiFi-to-RJ11 adapters?

Or would you say forget the RJ11, just get a VOIP phone/service that runs off the WiFi?

[red-beard]

Or do what everyone else is doing and just use your cell phone.

[masraum]

Or buy a set of wireless phones that’s got a main phone and a spare or two. All that you need for the extra phones is a power cable

[Por_sha911]

Feed your copper home phone wiring into the Wifi jack for the phone into the modem/gateway and you're good to go.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by masraum

Or buy a set of wireless phones that’s got a main phone and a spare or two. All that you need for the extra phones is a power cable

I mean yeah, this is the obvious solution.

Base station plus remotes.

[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by masraum

Or buy a set of wireless phones that’s got a main phone and a spare or two. All that you need for the extra phones is a power cable

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

I mean yeah, this is the obvious solution.

Base station plus remotes.

^^^^^^
This. I have a VOIP phone on the house and another phone in the garage. House phone is plugged into an Ooma box. Around $5 a month. I use it in situations where I do not want to give out the cell number.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by JackDidley

^^^^^^
This. I have a VOIP phone on the house and another phone in the garage. House phone is plugged into an Ooma box. Around $5 a month. I use it in situations where I do not want to give out the cell number.

My home phone is a google voice number running through an Ooma.

I have a separate google voice number for my cell which I give out 9/10 x's.

If you are one of the select few that have my real cell you are in the ring of honor.

[VincentVega]

Or would you say forget the RJ11, just get a VOIP phone/service that runs off the WiFi?

I think what you want to do makes sense, but what you typed doesnt.

As said try a cordless phone base connected to your existing rj11 port. The cordless phone will communicate with the other phones, 5.8mhz is pretty common but its nothing to do with wifi or voip. Cordless phone is the phone to base connectivity, voip or rj11 (pots?) is the actual call data/signaling layer.

[cstreit]

I'm struggling to understand, unless you don't have a cell phone, why anyone has a home phone at all...

...for an office - okay I get that.

[JackDidley]

Originally Posted by cstreit

I'm struggling to understand, unless you don't have a cell phone, why anyone has a home phone at all...

...for an office - okay I get that.

I like the option to be, not available. When I was working the job required 2 contact numbers. They got the VOIP number. Second contact was an ex SO and she would just say she did not know when Id be home. (true) They never knew I had a cell.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by cstreit

I'm struggling to understand, unless you don't have a cell phone, why anyone has a home phone at all...

...for an office - okay I get that.

Because once cable operators began offering phone service it was essentially free so you said **** it sure why not.

You set up your homes alarm service with it, bunch of your credit cards, kids school has it on record, yada yada yada.

One day you think, do I still need this ****?

Nah, ima gonna get rid of it.

Then you start trying to remember the bajillion places you have it set as your primary contact number and your brain gets so tired you have to take a three day long nap.

You start to come to the brutal realization that the time suck of changing just what you remember, which is like 20% of all of it, is like that time you had the brilliant idea of converting your home movies from Super 8 to DVD and abandoned that stupid idea 4 hours in.

You actually think about it for realz and come to the conclusion that its essentially free, which is what got you into this mess to begin with, and your time is better spent watching Russian cooking shows on youtube.

Spoiler alert, the secret ingredient in all Russian cuisine is vodka, and sometimes Borchst.

[stealthn]

Originally Posted by cstreit

I'm struggling to understand, unless you don't have a cell phone, why anyone has a home phone at all...

...for an office - okay I get that.

For an emergency, not a bad idea to have one that will always have power

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by cstreit

I'm struggling to understand, unless you don't have a cell phone, why anyone has a home phone at all...

Cell phones have dead spots and some can't use their cell at the house. The things I love about the landline (VOIP) are:
-my wife and I can talk to someone at the same time without using speaker phone
-I have phones all over the house so if it rings I don't have to go running to get the call
-Our home system has voice announcing caller ID so I can hear who is calling and decide if I want to pick it up and we can hear it from wherever we are in the house.

[jyl]

Thanks guys. I wasn't clear at all.

The issue is that my phone jack is in room 1, the entry room, and I need the deskphone to be in room 2, at my desk. I don't want an extension handset at my desk with the deskphone in the entry room. I don't actually want a phone in the entry room at all, if I can help it.

I looked at wireless RJ11 extenders. Reviews were pretty bad.

I finally found a RCA wireless phone system that uses a base station (a deskphone that plugs into the RJ11 jack), then has both full deskphones and extension handsets that connect wirelessly to the base station. I will try this, and figure out how to turn off ringer/sound on the base station and shove it in a drawer so that it basically doesn't exist except to do its wireless repeater job.

Yeah, the VOIP question was dumb. I haven't owned a phone, other than a cellphone, for most of a decade, and just am no longer familiar with this stuff.

Why don't I just use my cellphone for everything? I don't want everyone to have my cellphone number.

[asphaltgambler]

FWIW - the land line provider here (Verizon) wants an arm and leg monthly for just the dial tone. So Voip for us as our cell signal is weak in our immediate area.

[VincentVega]

When I work from home I'm on calls a lot, much prefer the house speaker phone to my mobile. Plus, I'm old! I've had the same # forever, how are the telemarketers going to find me if I drop the old #???

Might consider google voice or similar to a temp or 3rd party #.