help??

[valde]

Folks-------------- I have a Cell Americas Dock and Talk hooked to my Uniden 3-handset cordless home system (no landline) w/ Bluetooth module for my LG VX3200 cell phone - works great!..... PROBLEM/QUESTION---I would like to have ALL of it "link" to my laptop (w/ Win Vista) that now has a Verizon cell card (Kyocera KPC650) so I can call OUT cheaply using VOIP and still get IN calls on my listed phone # via my cell phone/Bluetooth/dock&talk/Uniden rig.......[I also have an older Kyocera (KE414) cell phone not being used]....I have been researching vigorously and am now TOTALLY confused......... HELP????............. JB

[hwittenb]

Sounds like you want to be a pioneer, at least on this forum anyway. These are my thoughts on a project.

If I understand you correctly, your attachment to the internet is via Verizon's EV-DO service and you interface that thru your laptop. Reading various blogs and posts about EV-DO the latency is low enough and the bandwidth high enough to allow voip calling and I assume Verizon does not object to your using their EV-DO service for voip calls.

First, I would verify that I could make satisfactory voip calls over my internet connection using a softphone on the laptop in the geographic location where you are located. I would find a voip provider that used industry standard sip protocol that worked satisfactorily before I spent a lot of time or money otherwise on the project. Try some $10 pay-as-you-go accounts at people like CallCentric, GizmoProject, OneSuite, or others. You could try Skype but it is not standard and it will be more difficult to interface it your Dock n Talk later on.

I believe you can interface (attach) a Dock n Talk to the FXO (line) port of a Linksys SPA3102. You would attach your Uniden Cordless base unit to the 3102. You can then still use the Dock n talk for incoming and outgoing calls, but you can then also use the 3102 to make an outoing voip call and if you wish you could bridge an incoming dock n talk call with an outgoing voip call.

The next problem is to obtain and attach a SPA3102 to the laptop's ethernet port using internet connection sharing on the laptop so that the SPA3102 could access the internet thru the laptop. Before I messed with the Dock n Talk, I would get that step working with just a straight call on the 3102 out over the internet using the voip provider that you proved out previously. You could buy a $10 analog phone to attach to the 3102 for this testing.

Finally, I would attach the Dock n Talk to the 3102 and replace the analog phone with the Uniden base unit.

[valde]

.....hwittenbe--------THX---that helps----seems doable---now I go shopping......gonna try Yahoo phone.......testing,testing......again,tnx - JB

[hwittenb]

Originally Posted by valde

gonna try Yahoo phone

Yahoo phone is good for initial testing to see if voip works in general but Yahoo phone does not use standard sip protocol so you will need to find another provider to work with the 3102. If you buy a 3102 you need to get one that is unlocked, not one that is locked to a specific provider. The Voxilla store has them, as do some other sources.

[valde]

..oops - NOW I'm in trouble - that solution is 'way to expensive - I heard that there was a way to use some kind of phone (?) to make outgoing calls on my cell-card laptop (VOIP?)....but NOT thru my cellphone/D&T/Bluetooth/cordless Uniden/ setup-right??.....was that what you referred to earlier? I'm hearing there's NO cheap way to cordless phone thru my Bluetooth talking to my Verizon cell card - again - right?...JB

[hwittenb]

Originally Posted by valde

I heard that there was a way to use some kind of phone (?) to make outgoing calls on my cell-card laptop (VOIP?)

You can start with a softphone (something you download for free) making outgoing calls. Yahoo phone is a softphone, Skype is a softphone, many voip providers have a softphone you can download, X-Lite and SJPhone are two general purpose softphones you can configure for different providers. You have to pay per minute for the calls unless you call someone on the same service.

You can perhaps buy some handsets that interface your computer's sound system, possibly via bluetooth, certainly via usb.

....but NOT thru my cellphone/D&T/Bluetooth/cordless Uniden/ setup-right??

When you throw that into the equation you have to interface the phone to the laptop somehow. The analog terminal adapter I mentioned costs $76.95 plus tax and shipping. You can't just plug the DNT or the cordless phones into the computer.

I'm hearing there's NO cheap way to cordless phone thru my Bluetooth talking to my Verizon cell card

Maybe there is something on the market that I'm not aware of.

[valde]

.HW- you have NO idea how many kinks you just took outta my knowledge base...NOW I get it..........ok....I'll just get Yahoo and and use the headset I WAS using with Skype......that otta cut down on my $.45 PER MINUTE Verizon calls..........TNX!!!!....I might get a hand "phone" to plug in place of the head set - if I can find one....this all seems the best I can do until my children invent an "ALL purpose" Star Trek "communicator" that interfaces with EVERYTHING I have around the house AND lets me talk w/The World w/o going bankrupt....again, THX!!!