You don't need a VOIP router, although you will want something with decent QOS (most routers that run DD-WRT will work fine. What you do need is an (ATA) Analog Telephone Adapter like the PAP2T on the cheap end or on the higher end a PCI card from sangoma or rhino with hardware echo cancellation if you plan to tie your existing PSTN line into the VOIP stuff. If you go with the second option you need to build your own asterisk box running PBX-in-a-flash or something comparable.
lopaka --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [H] VOIP To: [email protected] Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 3:42 PM My home, like most, has a phone network wired in that connects in a closed circuit. That circuit then is connected to the land line provider, in my case Quest. If you disconnect the four wires connecting the house's phone network to Quest, then you have a closed network or circuit for your phone system. I have been told that to use VOIP, one needs a special VOIP router that connects to my Cableone co-axial cable and it then must be connected to the base station of my phone system. Basically, this is an RJ11 cable from the VOIP router to the phone base station. Why is it not possible to connect the RJ11 phone connector directly to an open RJ11 jack in my home phone network and have the existing phone system connected into this RJ11 closed home phone network?
