Newbie: Answer to a simple question please?!

whitenoise · 27-05-2010, 08:52 AM

Hi everyone, I'm new here, and completely new to VOIP. Came across the this forum after looking into voip and you guys seem to know what you are talking about so wondered if I could ask some advice please?

There seems to be few places you can get some straight answers - or maybe I'm just not looking in the right places!

The main phone socket is downstairs where currently the cordless phone base station is, with the router upstairs in a different room. Now this upstairs room has a telephone extension socket, so could I get some telephone extension cable (any suggestions?) run it around the room and plug in say a spa-3000? I could then move the base station upstairs plug that into the spa, and then link the spa to the router? Would this setup work for using voip (but also using the normal landline), or does it need to be connected to the socket downstairs, as that would be a pain in the ar$e

I really, really new to the idea of voip so please be gentle! I'd really like the folks to try out using voip since they are currently on Virgin media and paying lots!

Appreciate your help!

Thanks

mike557 · 28-05-2010, 06:52 AM

What you have described sounds reasonable - provided I understood your description.
To summarise :-
Two rooms upstairs one with extension wiring?
One room has router (dont know how that connects to brodband).
Other room has phone extension socket.
Plug SPA3000 into this extension socket and plug cordless phone into SPA. You then need a cable from the SPA back to the router.
Any normal telephone extension cable can be used (take a look in Argos) to put a socket where you want the SPA.

Another solution may be to move your router and (assuming it is ADSL), plug that via a microfilter into the extension socket in the other room.

whitenoise · 01-06-2010, 08:18 AM

Hi Mike,

Its actually one room upstairs which has the router and the extension wiring, and another room (actually a hall) downstairs which has the main phone socket. I've got cable btw, not ADSL.

Thanks for your help though, based on what you've said it should work!

Cheers
whitenoise

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mike557 Moderator UkCvs Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Surrey Posts: 174 iTrader: (0) Casino cash: $120545 Thanks: 33 Thanked 188 Times in 100 Posts Nominated 6 Times in 1 Post TOTW/F/M Award(s): 1 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	What you have described sounds reasonable - provided I understood your description. To summarise :- Two rooms upstairs one with extension wiring? One room has router (dont know how that connects to brodband). Other room has phone extension socket. Plug SPA3000 into this extension socket and plug cordless phone into SPA. You then need a cable from the SPA back to the router. Any normal telephone extension cable can be used (take a look in Argos) to put a socket where you want the SPA. Another solution may be to move your router and (assuming it is ADSL), plug that via a microfilter into the extension socket in the other room. __________________ HTH Mike Always follow the rules

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01-06-2010, 08:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
whitenoise Junior Member UkCvs Newbie Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2 iTrader: (0) Casino cash: $6100 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hi Mike, Its actually one room upstairs which has the router and the extension wiring, and another room (actually a hall) downstairs which has the main phone socket. I've got cable btw, not ADSL. Thanks for your help though, based on what you've said it should work! Cheers whitenoise

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