I need to set up a voip connection wirelessly?

Question

Here is my setup:
I live in the first floor and I get the signal from a wireless router in the second floor using my wireless USB card.I would like to have a voip phone but I cannot connect the voip modem to the router since it is in the above floor.Is it possible to do this set up? what kind of hardware do I need.

Answer 1

get a wifi phone

Answer 2

If you actually have some kind of modem that sits in front of, instead of behind a router, that device would have to physically sit in the same room as the router on the floor above you.

However, I assume that by "VOIP modem" you actually mean a VOIP adapter that plugs into a router and connects to a regular phone handset- something like the Linksys PAP2 adapter?

If that's the case, you can try a wireless bridge. It lets you plug regular wired ethernet devices into it (computers, printers, VOIP adapters, Xboxes etc) and connects them to the wireless network.

I recommend the Buffalo Airstation - I've had one working flawlessly with my Linksys router for about a year. There are equivalent models from D-Link and Linksys such as the WET54GS5, but they cost more (and seem to be less reliable).

Answer 3

A wifi voip phone would work, but they tend to be expensive and a little underwhelming, to date--it's great to be able to independently voip from a hotspot but there's still a lot that these phones don't do (compared to a wired voip phone).

A wireless bridge, however lets you receive the wireless broadband signal and then distribute it over your network, using Ethernet cables, wifi, or both. Your voip internet phone adapter would plug into the bridge and then you just plug your phone into the adapter.

Adapters are often free from your voip service provider (mine was when I signed up w/voip.com) and I'm assuming you probably already have a regular phone--so all you'll really need is the bridge.

Answer 4

yeah, run skype on your pc downstairs, and get a usb skype phone to talk on. It like a headset/microphone through USB, it just looks like a phone. http://www.von-phone.com/?gclid=CIOi1-DQtogCFRNlYQod0nQd0g