Phone adapter or wireless IP phone ?

[TenOfZero]

Hi everyone.

First time poster here. I set-up an asterisk system on an old laptop, and right now I am having ring me on my cell and a softphone on my desktop. I tired to find a blackberry SIP softphone software, or windows mobile to no avail. So if you have one that would work on either windows Mobile 2003 SE or windows mobile 5.0 it would be great.

I am considering a few options.

One would be a analog phone converter such as PA168Q SIP FXS VOIP Analog Phone Adapter from ebay, http://cgi.ebay.ca/PA168Q-SIP-FXS-VOIP- ... 1|294%3A50 I would like to plug in a standard cordless phone into it, does anyone have any idea if these things are any good and if they play friendly with asterisk etc...

Otherwise I would be looking at a wireless IP phone something such as http://cgi.ebay.ca/CISCO-7920-WireLess- ... 2|294%3A50 any feedback on this type of items ?

or finally an analog gateway with 4 ports. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... %26otn%3D4 the price does sketch me out a bit, I would expect it to be MUCH more expensive than that. But I guess this would be my preferred solution, as it would allow me to buy a pretty PTSN cordless phone. much more girlfriend friendly.

If anyone else would like a regular corded style phone there are lots of used ones for sale on ebay, I'd be down on buying a lot with someone and splitting it.

I appreciate everyone's feedback.

thanks !!

*UPDATE*
Ok so I ordered the 4 port analog gateway. Lets see how it works out.

[Jody]

If the 4 port gateway works I'd say you got a great deal, retail is above $300

I'm not sure how friendly the cisco phone is with Asterisk, it seems to specify needing other cisco equipment on their site:

The Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 is an easy-to-use IEEE 802.11b wireless IP phone that provides comprehensive voice communications in conjunction with Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express

Also it's wireless B, so depending on how good your network is that might be problematic (maybe not for the ohone but if your router "dumbs down" from G/N to b it'll be a pain for all your other machines). For Wireless SIP phones I can recommend the seimans units, good dect phones with a familiar feel, the only gotcha with them is having to set the DTMF tones to in band to get transfers to work

Let me know how the Mediatrix works out for you.

Jody..

[TenOfZero]

Hey everyone.

The mediatrix works out very well, it came in as H323 but I updated the firmware with SIP and were good to go, sound quality is great !!!

Only issues is that my house is wired for 4 lines so I made a"new" line using the green and striped green wire and it doesn't seem to want to work, not sure why. Obviously I also changed the jack to use the green wire pair.

[Jody]

Some analog phones have 4 wire (red, black green yellow) if this is one of these phones you might just need more wire use an existing cable and see if it works, if it does see if it uses 2 or 4 wires.

[TenOfZero]

Thanks Jody, I'll have to try that

[TenOfZero]

Ok, so I tried with a different wall plug and all works fine using the green pair.
You know before I went out of my way to put some Cat6 cabling everywhere I should have kust use this perfectly good Cat5e in the wall. ZFrom what I can tell crosstalk is not really an issue and many folks do it that way... oh well, at least I have done it right and have full gigabit and not just 100mbps.

Thanks

[spikeinin]

what is the advantages of Phone adapter or wireless IP phone?

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[montrealvoip]

The phone adapter simply lets you use your existing phone without needing to buy a IP phone. A Wireless phone simply lets you walk around without being attached to the phone.