- Uses ordinary phones for skype.
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The Zoom Phone Adapter for Skype lets you use your favorite phone(s) with Skype. You can plug a normal phone into the adapter, and then make or receive calls using that phone. You can even plug in a cordless base station for 1, 2, 4, or even more cordless phones, and then make or receive calls using any of those phones!The Zoom Phone Adapter is easy to install and use, but it''s very powerful, especially if you choose to plug the adapter into normal phone service. Powerful bridging functions allow Skype calls to be forwarded to cell/mobile phones and other conventional phone numbers. This lets you use a mobile phone to make calls using Skype and save lots of money, or to receive Skype calls, making you easier to reach. Remote phones can also dial into the adapter to make outbound Skype calls.
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice affordable phone setup for Skype,
This review is from: Phone Adapter for Skype (Personal Computers)
I have used this device for about 2 weeks now. I purchased it at a local store for about $39. The device installed very easy, the instructions were not clear on how to make calls out. You have to press ##, Country Code, area code + phone number (ie for us calls ##,01,1-xxx-xxxx). It works with my desktop phone and cordless phone, no problems at all. I have also connected my landline to it, works like a charm.
Pros: -Do not need to buy new phones to use skype -You can choose better phones to use with skype that cost less -Can use your regular phone line in addtion to skype. Cons: -Need to understand how to make calls first -PC needs to be ON for it to work
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works wonders,
By World Player (Florida, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phone Adapter for Skype (Personal Computers)
This product just works right out of the box.
You can simply hook any old phone to the little box (preferably a cordless house phone) and if anyone calls you on skype it will ring on your cordless. Also, out of the box, and assuming you have SkypeOut credit available, you can call any telephone in the world from your connected house phone. Just dial like so: Unhook to get dial tone, ##00, country code, area code, phone number, * Suppose someone calls your skype account username from their computer: it will ring on your connected house phone. That's a free call. Out of the box. If you want to make free skype to skype calls from your house phone, you have to do a little bit of work. One choice is to use an older version of skype such as 3.8 or earlier, because there was speed dial on those. Another is to download skypespeeddial so you can set your speed dials. For instance, suppose your sister's skype account is "daringfireball". You set this contact's speed dial number to be "3", for instance. You then dial on your connected house phone: Unhook to get a dial tone, ##3* That's a free call. Tip: After you have set her speed dial to 3, you can rename her contact in Skype to "daringfireball No.3" so after a while it will be very easy to remember that your sister is 3. Do not confuse renaming her contact to 3 which does nothing with actually setting her speed dial to 3. Another tip: you can assign a speed dial to "Skype Test Call". So if you are in the garage and are somehow not sure your PC and rig are working, you just dial from your connected house phone and check Skype is on the up and up! One easy way to have Skype on all your house phones is to buy one of these wireless systems where you have one base and as many as 4, 6 or 8 cordless that work as extensions of the same base. You simply hook the one base through the Zoom box and then all the cordless handsets all have Skype. Having your main PC as your Skype telephone center can be a hassle: you must leave it on at al times. After testing this system for a number of weeks and making sure I liked it, I bought a refurbished netbook (Dell mini 9) with Windows XP and an 8-GB "drive" (it is an SSD so it has no moving parts). I set it so the screen turns off when I close the lid but the computer remains on. That's the machine that's hooked to the house phones. It runs nothing except Skype. You can enable VNC so you can access this little computer from your main PC, if you wish, to update stuff or whatever, so you never have touch it again. Tip: update anything that needs to be updated on this machine and then set everything on it to never update automatically. That way silly Windows will not interrupt your Skype when you least want it.
76 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Skype No Longer Works with Adapters,
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This review is from: Phone Adapter for Skype (Personal Computers)
Skype released version 4 of its software earlier this year. The new version does not support speed dial, which is required for these adapters to work properly with a stand-alone phone. Not just this brand; all brands of adapters are now bricks.
I should clarify that if you dial out the phone number you are calling using your computer keyboard you can make calls. However there is no way to dial out a number from a stand-alone phone's handset... Which pretty much defeats the whole purpose of using an adapter and a regular cordless phone. Google "skype version 4 speed dial" to get the technical details, but the bottom line is that Skype cannot be used with a regular cordless phone for all practical purposes. Bummer.
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