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Sohan

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I'm after 2 phones, that work with a land line and voip (ethernet connection). I'm in the UK and basically everything I do is over in the US or Canada. So getting a voip provider (not sure who yet) and a US number is probably gonna make life easier.

I'm after a good sized, quality phone. Something with a screen and that can hook up with the PC or Highrise so we can see the caller info / name etc (if that's even possible).

I don't want to lose the ability to make UK calls with our local number either, if that can be done too.

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Sohan, I use Iconnecthere.com when I signed up with them they sent me a Linksys Adapter so basically i connect it to my router and then i connect a regular phone to it.
They offer worlwide numbers and i pay something like 24.99 p/mo for a NY phone number + 400 minutes worlwide.

The good thing is that you can have 2 accounts there with 2 numbers and only one adapter.
Also since you use skype already a skype out/in account is pretty good since you pay like $60 per year for the phone number and you can buy credits whenever you need to use it.

Both of them offer forwarding calls, caller ID and voicemail service.

Good Luck ;)
 
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Seoholic said:
Sohan, I use Iconnecthere.com when I signed up with them they sent me a Linksys Adapter so basically i connect it to my router and then i connect a regular phone to it.
They offer worlwide numbers and i pay something like 24.99 p/mo for a NY phone number + 400 minutes worlwide.

The good thing is that you can have 2 accounts there with 2 numbers and only one adapter.
Also since you use skype already a skype out/in account is pretty good since you pay like $60 per year for the phone number and you can buy credits whenever you need to use it.

Both of them offer forwarding calls, caller ID and voicemail service.

Good Luck ;)
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For Skype I'd have to rely on a computer wouldn't I?
 
Normally I just get a regular land-line phone, and plug it into a VOIP box, wihch usually pretty small kinda like ipod size but thicker. So basically whenever you're able to get online just plug a regular phone into the box and the box into the ethernet and make calls.

Personally I never heard of a VOIP specific phone. Just the little boxes that go from your router into a regular phone jack.

PS: I use vonage here in the US.
 
Vonage

Disconnect phone company demarc, plug vonage device into any old wall jack, all other jacks in house served.
 
as far as physical phones go i'm currently running grandstream gxp-2000's for cost and ease of setup, but the mic quality on the handsets are pretty bad (i use external headsets)

nicest voip phone i've used is the snom 360 but i don't currently run it because it doesn't get along well with trixbox (my pbx software)

polycom is a nice middle of the road choice
 
bb_wolfe said:
Vonage

Disconnect phone company demarc, plug vonage device into any old wall jack, all other jacks in house served.
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I would have done that here, except it turns out the previous owner of the house actually (for god knows what reason) had all the lines cut/removed, so the jacks are pretty useless. Thought bout wiring in some more whenever I get around to wiring in some ethernet jacks (though most of the computers are wifi now)

But yes, its cool how you can just stick the vonage box into one of the jack if you don't already have service, then all the other jacks will go thru it just fine.
 
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