KX-T: new Pan phones at CES

2007-01-10 Thread Michael N. Marcus
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Pan showed a new Globarange series of hybrid 2-Line cordless phones that can provide free VoIP calls between Globarange phones around the world. They need a broadband connection, but not a PC. You can read about it, and other new big boys' toys int

KX-T: The problem with VOIP lines

2007-01-10 Thread Mark
This should be a fun one . . . I moved to a new home and the phone company only ran fiber to it. (Originally I said Whoopee!) However, working with Panasonic, Nortel, and Inter-Tel phone systems requires that I dial in to them usually using the proprietary software provided by the respective man

Re: KX-T: The problem with VOIP lines

2007-01-10 Thread Don Ritchie
Mark, You bring up a couple good points, the very first thing I would try is to pad the line at least 3db it seems as though the VoIP telephone "people", most of whom wouldn't know a REAL telephone line if it bit them in the "you know", tend to set everything to HOT. In the "old time" telephone

Re: KX-T: The problem with VOIP lines

2007-01-10 Thread Charles Patterson
I got fiber from Verizon in to my office but got a voice line from them over the fiber, as well as I use 2 voip lines through the data connection. I use the voice line for dial up data with no problems. I would expect VOIP lines to be intermittent at best for modem usage. Charles On 1/10/07, M