[PLUG] usefulness of Cisco 186/188 ATA phone adapters, & Ooma

[C W]

oops, I meant to type "linking", not "lining" in the previous post.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:13 PM, C W <elcaseti at gmail.com> wrote:

> ===If you have a cordless phone setup with several handsets, you can plug
>
> your base station into the Ooma and have as many handsets as you want.
> That would be the simplest approach.====
>
> Well, I do have a 3 handset cordless phone that would work on that, but I
> prefer to spend most of my phone time on a corded phone.  I bet there's a
> way to fool Ooma into thinking several phones are one phone by lining
> together all of the phones via couplers & long phone cords.  If I can do
> that, that would be great!
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Scott Garman <sgarman at zenlinux.com>wrote:
>
>> On 10/28/2011 09:21 PM, C W wrote:
>> > Scott,
>> > Thanks for the feedback.  Ooma's service sounds like it's better quality
>> > than mobile phone service, so I can live with that.  Especially since
>> Ooma's
>> > monthly charge is extremely low.
>>
>> Yep, which is why I really would prefer to stick with them if I can. My
>> cost comes to $3.47/mo now.
>>
>> > How expensive and difficult is it to add several phones in the same
>> house to
>> > one Ooma line?
>>
>> If you have a cordless phone setup with several handsets, you can plug
>> your base station into the Ooma and have as many handsets as you want.
>> That would be the simplest approach.
>>
>> Scott
>>
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