[blu] broadband phones?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Chris Marget wrote:

> you can plug many phones into your ATA.  it doesn't care, provided that
> the total ringer equivalency of all your phones doesn't exceed the
> rating of the ATA.

The various providers of VoIP I've seen don't commit to specific hardware, 
so I wouldn't be able to do that research.  I suppose I could send them an 
email asking them...

I never heard of Broadvoice.  I'll check them out.

> best bet, unplug your house from the telco box, plug your house into the
> ATA.  be careful that nobody accidently plugs your ATA into the telco
> network.  badness happens.

That option requires getting the service to find out if the service will 
work ;)

> ...or buy one of the cool multi-handset cordless phones.

A possibility, but the whole idea here is to save money, not spend another 
$600 in equipment.

> > - I have DSL, not cable.  It's my understanding that I can't drop my 
> > current POTS phone line, because then my DSL won't work.
> 
> "won't work" might be overstating the case.  "won't be supported" might
> be more like it.

According to others here, it sounds like I might be able to do it if I 
cuss enough at the phone company, who will still charge me something 
monthly for the wire without dialtone, and Speakeasy will charge me a 
little more for running DSL over a wire without dialtone.  By the time I'm 
done, I can't imagine the monthly savings would be worth it.  I could be 
wrong, since I don't have hard numbers.
 
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