12-19-2011 01:02 AM - edited 03-17-2019 10:41 PM
I have a Gateway SPA 3102. My internet connection is wireless. Can I connect the SPA 3102 to the computer and use it to make VOIP calls?
12-28-2011 02:52 AM
Lots of people looking, no one answering> Am I in the wrong forum?
01-03-2012 02:22 PM
Yes. Use "small business - phones".
01-03-2012 05:38 PM
Paolo, thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, I don't know what you mean by "small business-phones" and an internet search has not turned up any answers.
Perhaps my origonal question is not detailed enough so I'll try to explain my position in more detail.
I am moving to a house in a fairly remote part of Australia without a telephone connection. To get the phone on would be very expensive and would also take months. I have mobile phone and internet connection available but only through one carrier, the most expensive by far.
I am not a big user of either the phone or the internet but every now and then, I have to make one of those calls where you are put through a hundred menus and then left on hold for hours. A single call can send you broke on a mobile phone.
My proposed solution is to have a prepaid wireless internet connection and to use a "sip" connection to join a VOIP provider such as Voipcheap or Voipbuster which will give me unlimited calls to landlines in Australia for around $50 per year. I have a SPA 3102. Can I connect it to my computer and then connect a phone handset to it to achieve my solution? I also have a PAP 2T if this would work better.
01-04-2012 11:35 AM
Yes, the ex-linksys devices can be used with internet telephony providers.
The small business forum, phones is another section of this forum, that discusses these devices.
01-04-2012 04:53 PM
Thanks Paolo, I'll look there. I am the smallest of small businesses, one laptop in the Australian outback linked to the world by a USB wireless dongle.
01-05-2012 06:16 AM
That is cool. But, you should get a 3G router with ethernet ports, because that is what is needed for hookup phones adapters and stuff.
01-05-2012 12:25 PM
I should get a 3G router but can I make Voip calls using what I've got? I've tried "soft phones" but found the quality next to useless. I can't find any current discussion in the small business section, doesn't mean it's not there, just that I can't find it.
01-05-2012 12:45 PM
If a softphone works poorly, chances are that an adapter will not do better.
That is because you may not have enough bandwidth or connection quality to make phone calls.
01-05-2012 02:07 PM
The soft phone was no good but the adapter works perfectly. This is with a T2 broadband connection, I haven't moved yet.
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