Hi All, Maybe I'm just typing the wrong thing into Google, but this seems a hard topic to get info on. Here's what I want to do: Connect my existing land line phones into some piece of hardware so I can then use my cable internet connection to make calls.
Some people seem to think you can use a normal 56K (voice) modem to do this, with some software on my linux box. (seams like the cheapest option!) Others seem to think there is specific hardware to connect a landline phone into an ethernet to convert the phones to VOIP phones. Infact netcomm sell these, but require direct connection to the modem, which sounds like it could present problems with the bigpond heart beat, and my remote access. Apparantly netcomm don't make reliable hardware anyway, something I would think inportant for this application. Oh, and I know all this could be done easily if I just went to an ADSL2+ plan+voip, but I'm a long way from the exchange (3.8km by google maps) Any thoughts? Cheers Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
