Very pronounced "speakerphone" effect to calls?

[Russell]

We have / have had phone in the master bedroom, two kids bedrooms, bonus room, family room, kitchen, computer desk, etc. Some being two line phones one being a 4-line phone. All working quite well using our old fashioned approach with VOIPo supplied ATAs. So, I'd need a 2 line DECT base station with multiple handsets (say half a dozen) using your approach. Right? Do you have such a setup? If so curious what kind of money we're talking about.

[lifespeed]

My setup is one iPhone 3GS running Bria softphone (line 1), a Nexus One Android phone with CSIPSimple softphone (line 2), and a corded Yealink T26P IP phone (both lines). Because we already have 'smart' mobile phones I am using wifi (802.11n 2.4 GHz) for cordless, not DECT, however many have had success with the DECT approach.

The Gigaset 58 series is under $100 from Amazon. They make several other models with various features. With a true IP phone, you can have as many lines as the phone will allow SIP accounts (6 for this model).

If you look into this, note the 'IP' suffix means it is an internet phone. You also might want to take a look at Mr Graves reviews of the Gigaset models. These phones support 'HD voice', which is most commonly the G722 audio codec. While hi-def voice only works with a recipient phone that supports G722 (it will automatically fall back to G711 when not supported), the sound quality is amazing.

When we call between mobile phones using VoIP or mobile-to-home, the sound quality is amazing.

Lastly, you can still leave your ATA connected if you want. VoIPo supports ringing multiple SIP devices associated with a single DID (phone number). Start out with a pair of the Gigaset IP phones and see how you like them. Then add more handsets as needed.

[Russell]

Very cool! Thanks for posting your setup. Very useful to me (and I'm sure to others).

[Russell]

Btw, at the risk of digressing. What are the recommendations du jour for a freeware softphone running on an XP laptop? I'm looking to hear from folks who've successfully configured service with VOIPo using the credentials from vPanel.

[lifespeed]

X-Lite from Counterpath. It is the free version of Bria.