[Gllug] Alternatives to BT offering of combined mobile

[John Winters]

> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:10:04AM +0000, John Winters wrote:
>>  ISTR seeing an ADSL modem a while back where the
>> splitter was built into the box and a conventional phone plugged into
>> the box could then make calls over either POTS or VOIP, but I can't find
>> it when I search.  Does it exist?
>>
>
> Do you mean Draytek Vigor?
>
>    http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2500v.html

Close, but not I think quite there.

The unit which I'm recalling combined the ADSL splitter with everything
else in the same box and thus enabled you to make *either* POTS *or* VOIP
calls from the same phone.  More importantly from my point of view,
incoming calls through either POTS or VOIP rang the same phone.

All the ADSL routers with VOIP which I've managed to find are for *just*
VOIP.  If you want a POTS phone you have to plug that in separately.

All I can remember now is that it was made by a major manufacturer (Cisco
or the like) and you shoved a prefix on the number you were dialling to
indicate whether you wanted the call to go via POTS or VOIP.

Ring any bells with anyone?

TIA,
John

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