Landline phone network intergration

wilber · 22 Apr 2017 at 12:11

I would like to have my landline phone connection working through my WiFi and hardwired Ethernet connection.

What products, if any are available for this. I do not want to get rid of my landline just integrate into my home network so i could have a handset in another location where my network is available.

bremen1874 · 22 Apr 2017 at 18:04

Doesn't a standard set of DECT phones meet this requirement?

BigT · 22 Apr 2017 at 18:19

The Invoxia voice bridge might be something you're interested in:

http://www.invoxia.com/en-gb/voice-bridge/

liveid · 22 Apr 2017 at 19:32

sounds like you want an ip based phone but that would also need the infrastructure and no phone if the wifi fails!

Voicon · 22 Apr 2017 at 21:38

BigT said:
The Invoxia voice bridge might be something you're interested in:

http://www.invoxia.com/en-gb/voice-bridge/

That looks really good, I know prior to iOS 10 an app had problems with password requirement and GSM calls over-riding the app which now works by the looks of their info

Caged · 23 Apr 2017 at 13:01

I have to ask why you're doing this?

APM · 23 Apr 2017 at 13:15

Who is your landline supplier wilber?

wilber · 24 Apr 2017 at 09:17

bremen1874 said:
Doesn't a standard set of DECT phones meet this requirement?

No, the location i want another phone on the landline is too far away.

BigT said:
The Invoxia voice bridge might be something you're interested in:

http://www.invoxia.com/en-gb/voice-bridge/

Interesting idea, but not really what i am after. Need a fixed phone in a set location so multiple people could answer it.

liveid said:
sounds like you want an ip based phone but that would also need the infrastructure and no phone if the wifi fails!

Yes it would need to be an IP phone over the network. Not worried if the wifi went down.

Caged said:
I have to ask why you're doing this?

I need a phone in a location quite a distance from the house, which has my home network available.

APM said:
Who is your landline supplier wilber?

PlusNet.

I'm not looking to subscribe to a IP phone service. I was hoping there was some sort of simple device i could plug into my landline and network that would route calls in and out to IP phones on the network. Not looking for a managed solution where internal calls could be placed to individual phones just a simple system that behaved like a normal DECT phone setup but over the network.

APM · 24 Apr 2017 at 11:43

Could you just put a splitter after your junction box and run a cable to where you want the 2nd phone to reside?

bremen1874 · 24 Apr 2017 at 12:35

wilber said:
No, the location i want another phone on the landline is too far away.

If it isn't too far you could look at DECT repeaters. Panasonic claim 50m indoors, 300m outdoors for theirs.

BigT · 24 Apr 2017 at 14:05

I think you can do this with an Asterisk server and VOIP phones but it is far from easy or a plug and play solution:

http://www.asterisk.org/

APM · 24 Apr 2017 at 14:13

How much distance are we talking about?

Too far for your regular wireless phones to cover?

pepp77 · 24 Apr 2017 at 14:46

You are edgng into the realm of actual PBX systems here because everything other than that I know about allows you to connect an analogue device to an IP line, but I do not know of any simple device that allows an IP phone to connect to an analogue line.

pepp77 · 24 Apr 2017 at 14:48

Edit however you could look up FXO gateways.

Jamauk · 24 Apr 2017 at 15:56

BigT said:
I think you can do this with an Asterisk server and VOIP phones but it is far from easy or a plug and play solution:

http://www.asterisk.org/

My thoughts exactly, I'm actually running Elastix on an old HP N36l, I've got FXO & FXS cards in it as my experience with the Linksys SPA3102 wasn't great although that may be down to the way I configured it, with better settings perhaps it could work alongside a Raspberry Pi running Asterisk.

Edit; depending on the actual need for it to be IP based, could staying with DECT and using repeaters be an option, I also run Gigaset DECT phones, they're connected to the network as opposed to the phone line but it's the same principal, but with a repeater I can get a good signal around 100m away.

IT Troll · 24 Apr 2017 at 22:14

For a simple, cheap, low tech solution you could just use CAT5 voice/data splitters (sometimes called economisers) at each end of your existing long cable run.

The con with this is that your split connection will only run at 100Mb. The pro is that the phone isn't reliant on any infrastructure and so would still work in a network or power outage.

wilber · 8 May 2017 at 14:14

APM said:
Could you just put a splitter after your junction box and run a cable to where you want the 2nd phone to reside?

Too far.

bremen1874 said:
If it isn't too far you could look at DECT repeaters. Panasonic claim 50m indoors, 300m outdoors for theirs.

Worth looking into, I was just hopeing to take advantage of the infrastructure already in place. Its over 100 metres from the main house to an out building i wish to have the phone. I already have a dedicated wifi bridge for the network.

BigT said:
I think you can do this with an Asterisk server and VOIP phones but it is far from easy or a plug and play solution:

http://www.asterisk.org/

Cheers i'll have a look.

APM said:
How much distance are we talking about?

Too far for your regular wireless phones to cover?

Just over 100 metres building to building

pepp77 said:
You are edgng into the realm of actual PBX systems here because everything other than that I know about allows you to connect an analogue device to an IP line, but I do not know of any simple device that allows an IP phone to connect to an analogue line.

Shame there is no simple device.

pepp77 said:
Edit however you could look up FXO gateways.

I'll do some more digging

Jamauk said:
My thoughts exactly, I'm actually running Elastix on an old HP N36l, I've got FXO & FXS cards in it as my experience with the Linksys SPA3102 wasn't great although that may be down to the way I configured it, with better settings perhaps it could work alongside a Raspberry Pi running Asterisk.

Edit; depending on the actual need for it to be IP based, could staying with DECT and using repeaters be an option, I also run Gigaset DECT phones, they're connected to the network as opposed to the phone line but it's the same principal, but with a repeater I can get a good signal around 100m away.

IT Troll said:
For a simple, cheap, low tech solution you could just use CAT5 voice/data splitters (sometimes called economisers) at each end of your existing long cable run.

The con with this is that your split connection will only run at 100Mb. The pro is that the phone isn't reliant on any infrastructure and so would still work in a network or power outage.

Dont want to restrict my network speed if i can help it.

APM · 8 May 2017 at 17:58

If the far building has power then maybe running a cable from there back to the main house as far as decorum will allow then hooking it up wirelessly from there?