Ok, I’ve been researching this a bit and so far haven’t found an answer…
1. Say you have a regular analog phone line (POTS) just waiting for something to be plugged into it.
2. Lets also say that you have a wireless network in your home or office (b/g/a/n or whatever)
3. You have a wifi enabled PDA/Cellphone/VOIP phone.
Is it possible to use a wifi device with your analog service?
This seems like a perfectly reasonable request to make. As wifi becomes more popular it is evident that more people will start using VOIP services to send and receive calls wirelessly. If you work in a large building (that doesn’t have a LAN VOIP service) and aren’t always in your office but have to use their phone system, why shouldn’t you be able to use your wifi device anywhere in (or out of) the building that has wireless coverage to make a phone call? Why hasn’t anybody made this yet?
I know, I know, yet another ridiculously tech-geeky post… it’s just what I do.
You’re looking for a blackbox device that hooks up to the RJ-11 to play with wifi?
This?
http://www.sparklan.com/product_details.php?prod_id=9
Or no?
Comment by The Dude — September 13, 2006 @ 10:59 pm
Looking for a device that does pretty much the reverse. All the ones I’ve found make it so you can use an analog phone with your voip service. I need one that lets me use a wifi handset with an analog service.
Happy Birthday by the way.
Comment by Nate — September 14, 2006 @ 8:03 am