VoIP'ing away!
Seems the DSL service issues have resolved, and it (and the VoIP) has been rock solid for some time now.
We have been testing it out as our "primary" line now. I rewired our house yesterday evening to pass the POTS line through to only the DSL modem, and then fashioned a homemade adapter to "backfeed" the VoIP adapter back into the (now dead) primary line housewiring.
The results is that our POTS line (POTS is shortform for "Plain Old Telephone Service" for anyone who isn't aware) now comes into the house on what was the dormant "second line" wiring that most houses have, but is rarely used.
This runs to all jacks in the house, but I made the adapter to only feed it to the DSL modem, which is the only device that needs to attach to it now. Then, from the DSL modem the VoIP adapter is connected (along with my wireless router and other goodies), and then a phone cable runs back to the phone jack, and feeds the house wiring.
The result is that now *all* of our house phones are operating on the VoIP service for incoming and outgoing calls.
I have turned the call forwarding on for our "real" houseline on the POTS service so that it forwards through to our new VoIP number.
It's working beautifully, and other then the fact that our VoIP phone number is showing up on all of our outgoing calls at this point in time, it's seamless from everyone elses viewpoint. The quality of the calls are excellent.
If this keeps up, I anticipate that within a month or so we will migrate our home phone number over to the VoIP service, and abandon our POTS line completely.
VoIP is definately the way of the future.
I will need to invest in a UPS system however to ensure that the DSL modem and VoIP adapter don't go dead in a power failure.
Minor details. :)
If anyone who reads either of my blogs is interested in having me call them so that you can get firsthand experience with "VoIP Service and sound quality" I'm happy to do so, just drop me a line in email at oshawapilot at gmail dot com.
All of my long distance is free now, so it's no trouble. :-)
We have been testing it out as our "primary" line now. I rewired our house yesterday evening to pass the POTS line through to only the DSL modem, and then fashioned a homemade adapter to "backfeed" the VoIP adapter back into the (now dead) primary line housewiring.
The results is that our POTS line (POTS is shortform for "Plain Old Telephone Service" for anyone who isn't aware) now comes into the house on what was the dormant "second line" wiring that most houses have, but is rarely used.
This runs to all jacks in the house, but I made the adapter to only feed it to the DSL modem, which is the only device that needs to attach to it now. Then, from the DSL modem the VoIP adapter is connected (along with my wireless router and other goodies), and then a phone cable runs back to the phone jack, and feeds the house wiring.
The result is that now *all* of our house phones are operating on the VoIP service for incoming and outgoing calls.
I have turned the call forwarding on for our "real" houseline on the POTS service so that it forwards through to our new VoIP number.
It's working beautifully, and other then the fact that our VoIP phone number is showing up on all of our outgoing calls at this point in time, it's seamless from everyone elses viewpoint. The quality of the calls are excellent.
If this keeps up, I anticipate that within a month or so we will migrate our home phone number over to the VoIP service, and abandon our POTS line completely.
VoIP is definately the way of the future.
I will need to invest in a UPS system however to ensure that the DSL modem and VoIP adapter don't go dead in a power failure.
Minor details. :)
If anyone who reads either of my blogs is interested in having me call them so that you can get firsthand experience with "VoIP Service and sound quality" I'm happy to do so, just drop me a line in email at oshawapilot at gmail dot com.
All of my long distance is free now, so it's no trouble. :-)
posted by Oshawapilot at Sunday, June 12, 2005
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