Pairing up a cordless phone with your voice over IP (VOIP) setup provides convenience and cost savings. Voice over IP uses the power of the internet to reduce phone costs. Here’s how it works: the output from a normal telephone is converted into a digital signal. This stream of digital information then travels over the internet to a location close to the person you’re calling, where it’s converted back to a phone signal.
Some people were initially put off by the idea of voice over IP because they thought that they would have to relocate their phone to where their cable modem was hooked up. Or perhaps they had a well-designed corded phone system and didn’t want to sacrifice the convenience of phones in every room.
To get around this problem, it is possible to take the signal from your VOIP modem and connect it to your home phone lines. However, an easier solution is to switch to cordless phones. Let’s take a look at how a cordless phone VOIP system would operate.
In most cases, your VOIP provider will give you a modem. This modem will be connected to the output of the cable modem/router and your telephone plugs into the back of the modem. The easiest way to make VOIP from anywhere in the house is to take a cordless phone base unit and plug it into the VOIP modem. Even a single handset cordless phone will give you the option of making calls from anywhere in the home, assuming that the range of the base is good enough.
An even better solution is to add a cordless phone system that has multiple handsets. With the base plugged into the VOIP modem, any calls made from any handset will be using the VOIP technology to call, saving you money in the process.