Re: [Ekiga-list] Nikolai Cassanova: Can anyone recommend a great residential sip phone

[Stuart D Gathman <stuart gathman org>]

On 03/04/2011 10:57 AM, Nikolai Cassanova wrote:
> Hi, wanted to know if anyone out there in ekiga network could 
> recommend a great sip phone for residential use, thats low priced.  As 
> I am looking into setting up for my house phone connection using 
> voip/sip capabilities from my verion fios router.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Or if anyone who has done this already for there homes, can point me 
> in a direction to get more information on how i would go about 
> changing my home phone into a voip/sip phone.
At work and home, we use what's called an ATA adapter.  I've used 
Motorola and Linksys brands.  You plug in to ethernet, configure via web 
interface with VOIP login, etc, then connect POTS phones to your old 
fashioned POTS home wiring.  The adapters are about $20 for 2 analog 
lines, and typically support FAX pass through on one of the ports as well.

For a real SIP phones that have an LCD and connect only to ethernet, 
Linksys has one for $100 that my coworker uses.  Some have a built in 
switch in case you have only one ethernet outlet at your desk (so you 
can connect your computer as well).

I run Ekiga on a netbook for my "SIP phone".  Works great.  Even on the 
500Mhz OLPC XO-1, audio is crystal clear and snappy.  (On the XO-1, the 
CPU can support video in one direction only.  Enabling the second camera 
overloads the CPU!)