[montee4]

I just noticed that Voxilla now has a Dock-N-Talk cable for the Nextel Motorola i730. I was finally thinking about purchasing one now that it supports my phone. Has anyone out there used a Docl-N-Talk, I am just curious on the quality.

Thanks.

[PhoneBoy]

It works pretty well with several of my Nokia phones.

[dfroberg]

Anyone tried it with a Sony Ericsson P900 ?

[voip247]

Has anyone used Dock-N-Talk to connect their cell phone to their VoIP line?

If so, how was the voice quality? I would expect that it could be poor because of multiple compression/decompression cycles. For example, if your cell phone uses the GSM codec and your VoIP line uses the G.729 codec, there would probably be lots of click and pop noises. However, if your VoIP line uses G.711, maybe there wouldn't be much degradation??

[mberlant]

Since the link between the Dock-n-Talk and the ATA is analog, most problems related to back-to-back CODECs are moot. I use a setup that links an Andrews Extensis CDMA adaptor (like the Dock-n-Talk, except for StarTAC CDMA phones) connected to a Nortel Norstar digital EKTS (uses G.711 internally), which is, in turn, connected to a Sipura SPA-2000 (typically G.711). So, that's three back-to-back analog-to-digital-to-analog conversions yielding sound quality about on par with a cellular conversation.

My experience with voice quality degradation is that it is more susceptible to problems on the individual links than on multiple CODEC transitions. That is, if the cellular signal of the mobile cellular customer dips you will hear it just as you would on a regular cellular call. And, if the internet path between your ATA and the other endpoint suffers from congestion or fault you will hear that, too, just as with a single hop VoIP call.

When I have had a decent cellular connection coupled with a decent internet path I have enjoyed cellular quality voice quality for the call.

[airegin]

Hi,
I am a new Sipura SPA 3000, Dock-N-Talk, Fx-200 owner. I am having trouble understanding how to set things up (program) so that I may call from cell to my second cell on the DnT and have the call go to VoIP. Currently I just have the basic setup with Broadvoice but would like to get all this connected. I have read some reads that talk of the possibilities but the "setup" parts I have missed. I still don't understand how the DnT get a cell dialtone without pushing any keys on the cell keypad.

I would like to be able to call in from my cell to the 2nd cell/DnT and out over VoIP. Receiving VoIP and having the call go out through the cell/DnT to my cell would be nice too.

I hope I have given enough information about what I would like to accomplish. If there are other options with the equipment and service that I have, please let me know.
I'm sure that the information is out there. I've just missed or overlooked it.
Thank you for this great resource and forum!!!

Rob

[mberlant]

All of what you describe is possible.

First, you need to understand the Dock-N-Talk. Its purpose in life is to act as a base station (fixed wireless station) for the cell phone that is docked to it. So, take your D-N-T and plug an ordinary telephone into its RJ-11 jack. Now, call that cell phone from the one on your belt. After that, hang up, pick up the phone connected to the D-N-T and call your cell phone. That's all there is to the D-N-T - it allows you to use an ordinary telephone instrument to control and use the radio portion of the attached cell phone.

Next is the SPA3000. Have you already configured the SPA to put BV on Line 1 of the SPA? Assuming so, take that ordinary telephone instrument and move it to the Phone jack of the SPA. When you pick up the phone you should hear a BV Dial Tone. This indicates that the second piece of the puzzle is working.

The glue in the middle of these two endpieces is the FX-200. The FX-200 connects on one side to the Phone jack of the SPA and on the other side to the RJ-11 of the D-N-T. You program its two directions of logic, transit in and transit out, with authorization PINs and Dial Plans that instruct it how to behave when someone calls in on the BV phone number or on the D-N-T phone number. In either case, it will answer the ringing phone after the delay you specify, prompt for the PIN, and grant dialing permissions based upon the rules you have attached to that PIN.

I think that if you get each piece working, stringing them together will be straightforward.

[necrossis]

I've been searching the posts and cannot find answers to my questions.

1) Can somebody please list the parts (part number/model would be great) that's needed for this setup?
I have a SPA2100 and "The Gizmo" from Sunrocket.
2) Can this only be done with BYOD service providers? Can it be done with Sunrocket?
3) Has anybody found a simple (with images preferred) setup instructions of this setup? Especially for non-techies--like me.
4) Once all of this is setup. Is it all easy to operate? Could it pass the 'wife test'? Is it all worth it?

Thanks,

[mberlant]

necrossis,


You forgot to provide the most important bit of information. You never mention what "setup" you are trying to achieve.

[necrossis]

mberlant:
I'm trying to have it jump from voip to cell and from cell to voip.