Yes, you are right. Also, since I had four wire phone line ran to all
of my phones, instead of putting a filter at each phone, we put the
filter outside and fed dsl down one pair and regular phone line down the
other pair which was originally my main phone line.
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008,
Steve Dresser wrote:
> Colin,
>
> My understanding is that conventional DSL uses the same physical wires as
> does the phone audio. That's why you need a filter for each phone in the
> line. Fiber-optic DSL is accomplished through an interface box mounted
> outside the house. The box has two inputs: one for the analog phone, and
> the other for your Internet connection.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 23:57
> Subject: Re: magic jac
>
>
>> it doesn't matter what your connection type is, as long as it is high
>> speed
>> enough to support good quality Voice over IP.
>> The other thing to note, if you do use DSL, and you want to get rid of
>> your
>> land line for the VOIP phone, most DSL and telephone companies will allow
>> you to drop your land line number and keep the DSl connection without a
>> physical residential hard wired telephone number...with telus in alberta
>> they call it an invisible number or spoof number or something like that.
>> many companies will tell you that you must have a land line telephone
>> number
>> to use DSL, but you don't. They work on separate physical pairs in the
>> phone wire so there is not a necesity to have a phone line attached to the
>> dsl portion.
>> regards
>> Colin
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: magic jac
>>
>>
>>>
>>> It shouldn't matter, Phil, it is just using the internet. I have a
>>> friend who is using it on dsl.
>>> 73
>>> Butch Bussen
>>> wa0vjr
>>> open Node 3148
>>> Las Vegas
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Phil Scovell wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm assuming this is used on a cable broadband and not DSL?
>>>>
>>>> Phil.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Jimmy Podsim" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:09 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: magic jac
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Um, this is voip. Any time you use your computer as a phone system
>>>>> it's
>>>>> voip. I find it much more smoothing to the ear than our analog lines.
>>>> Only
>>>>> thing is you have to remember that you always need to leave your PC on
>>>>> if
>>>>> you want the phone to work. One thing I really like is the fact that
>>>>> they
>>>>> send me an email every time I get a voicemail. I mean, I check email
>>>>> constantly, but I hardly e ver think about looking at the answering
>>>> machine.
>>>>> Also you can forward your number to any other number you want.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ... 73 ... KD5QHH ... Jimmy ...
>>>>> http://www.podsim.us
>>>>> MSN or windows live... [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Skype, jimmy.podsim ... please note the period between the names.
>>>>> Have a great day!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:35 PM
>>>>> Subject: magic jac
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi;
>>>>>> This sounds rather interesting. How is the sound quality? I had voip
>>>> and
>>>>>> wasn't delighted with the sound quality. Further more I paid for
>>>> several
>>>>>> years of service to get a lower rate and they had the nerve to file
>>>>>> bankruptcy.
>>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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