Jimk Wrote in message:
Theo Wrote in message:
Jimk wrote:
Thinking I'll dump my land line & go 4g at my next renewal of ISP.

I "never" use the landline for calls. But if I wanted to, could I
connect a normal phone to use the interweb kind of like VoIP? If
so how?

Yes. You have roughly two options:

An Analogue Telephone Adapter (ATA) is a box you plug a wired landline phone
into, and the box then plugs into your router. There are a number of
vendors. Sometimes they can be incorporated into your router.

A combined ATA and DECT base station that connects to DECT cordless phones
but plugs into your router rather than your telephone socket. Gigaset
and FritzBox in particular specialise in these.

(I appreciate it wouldn't work if the 4g internet was down.)

Indeed. A different option is a 'cellular terminal' which looks like a
landline phone but uses the mobile network instead of a landline. That gets
you the creature comforts of a landline desk phone (good speakerphone etc,
pick up handset to answer, ability to plug in a headset, etc) but using
mobile calls rather than landline or mobile data.

Theo


Ok so keeping it simple for now...

On eBay i see a "Cisco ATA 186 Analog Telephone Adaptor" for 20
odd quid... worthy?

Also* if I had the old *phone plugged into this to make a call, what is
shown on the caller display at the recipients end?

How would they call me back say?


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Jimk


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