laymans terms please !!!
Isn't there some box thing you can buy to run your phone line from your dsl, independent from a phone company?
2006-10-02 13:15:45 · 9 answers · asked by debi_0712 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I have alltell dsl and all tell telephone, want my telephone free from alltell....
2006-10-02 13:18:06 · update #1
not 'free' as in no $$, mean I want rid of my phone bill..........
2006-10-02 13:19:41 · update #2
VOIP not an option, not available in this area.
2006-10-02 13:27:49 · update #3
wow, you folks are misreading me here.
Only one person so far is on the same road I am on. The one that suggested VoIP. but it is not available in this area.
I DO NOT want to do anything illegal! At&t guy- i do not live in the at&t area, live in the now called windstream area used to be alltell. One of the shopping channels has even had the box thiing on the air that you can hook up, yes, I know there is subscription fees with a company for the box....
2006-10-02 13:32:22 · update #4
Yoyu can hook up a VoIP phone.
http://www.lingo.com
More service AND lower price than Vonage
2006-10-02 13:18:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Splitter is the lay mans term. Just about any Electronics retail store should have one (Radio Shack, Circuit City, Best Buy, The Good Guys, maybe even Wal-Mart, K-Mart or Target) for sale.
However, without a phone service provider, you will not legally have phone service. you must have a company that provides your Dial tone, regardless on whether its through a cable company or telephone company.
And no, there is no way to use a phone line (legally) without having a company provide the dial tone for you.
Secondly, I would recommend NOT going to Vonage. I have worked in the At&t Customer Returns center (where people come back to At&t after trying another phone company/cable company) and have heard nothing good about Vonage's service.
Of course, I would recommend calling At&t and checking out our prices. Our DSL can be had for as low as $12.95 per month for the 1st 12 months (unlike most companies that offer their lower price for a mere 3 months, sometimes 6 months).
2006-10-02 20:25:46 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our phone company sent us little things called filters. It's basically a little box that plugs into the jack in the wall. It has two jacks, one for the phone line and one for dsl. It just splices the line and cuts out interferance with the internet and phone, but I don't know where you would buy them, everything that you need should have been delivered from your phone company.
2006-10-02 20:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by chickpea 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your internet service provider will provide you with a modem that hooks the phone line into the modem directly so either service is interupted when in use.
2006-10-02 20:16:54 · answer #4 · answered by djskeets 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You put the phone and DSL modem on a treadmill. :)
Okay, I could explain it all, but why bother?
Just click the link below.
2006-10-02 20:20:48 · answer #5 · answered by Balk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opps, I read that wrong. Yea your dsl provider has a filter/splitter.
2006-10-02 20:17:58 · answer #6 · answered by john30014 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your asking about something illegal you have to use one of the phone carriers to run a separate line,i know you know you can get a double jack and use it to talk while your on your computer
2006-10-02 20:24:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just get a phoneline splitter...run one line to your phone and one line to your pc...that should solve your problem
2006-10-02 20:17:17 · answer #8 · answered by cabjr1961 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Phone lines are'nt free...
2006-10-02 20:22:25 · answer #9 · answered by Vinegar Taster 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋