Share Your Phone Service between Two Homes
Many of us with vacation homes don’t need to have full-time phone service at the second location. In fact, typically we only need it in one location at once. It would be great to have a little appliance that would allow us to share the service between the two locations.
If I have high-speed Internet access between the two homes this problem should be trivial to solve. All it takes is tunneling the dial tone across the Internet. How awesome it would be to have a box that I could plug in at home and connect my phone line and a network connection. Then, in the vacation home, I can take a sister appliance and plug into it a phone line and network connection. Even better would be some type of proximity configuration so the two appliances could discover and validate each other. The only task left after that is the tunneling of the dial tone and possibly dealing with being behind a NAT router, both of which are not difficult problems to solve.
August 21st, 2007 at 8:43 am
Why don’t you just get a voip phone? They use a little device that creates your phone connection to their server. When you want to go between two locations that have high speed internet, just take the little box with you, plug it into your network, plug in the phone, and you have your phone line.
August 25th, 2007 at 10:44 am
I have voip at both locations – problem is that I don’t want to carry around my voip box with me; I always forget it. Additionally, if I take the voip box, phone service is not available at that location; most critically connectivity to the monitoring company for the alarm system.