danemayer
Well-known member
We replaced our home telephone with the Verizon Home Phone Connect a few weeks ago. For $20/month, you get home phone service that replaces your old landline. It's actually a cell phone transceiver with unlimited nationwide calls. Your regular telephone device plugs into it and you have a dial tone. No need for an internet connection as with Vonage, or MagicJack or similar VOIP devices.
There are 2 jacks on the back. I have our kitchen phone plugged into one jack. It's actually a base station with wireless receiver, that also supports 3 additional phones around the house. The 2nd jack is connected to the phone jack in the kitchen. That puts dial done all through the house. Our bedroom phone is a standalone that plugs into the wall jack and gets its dial tone this way.
The best part is that it's a portable device. I brought it along with the kitchen phone on our latest trip to San Angelo, TX. We now have unlimited calls in and out while traveling, and it's our home number. I haven't tried it, but they don't exclude using it for a dial-up internet connection, so it might do that if you can't get a broadband connection.
So far it's working great and saves our cell phone's limited minutes. So my DW can talk to her mother for an hour a couple times per week without worries.
There are 2 jacks on the back. I have our kitchen phone plugged into one jack. It's actually a base station with wireless receiver, that also supports 3 additional phones around the house. The 2nd jack is connected to the phone jack in the kitchen. That puts dial done all through the house. Our bedroom phone is a standalone that plugs into the wall jack and gets its dial tone this way.
The best part is that it's a portable device. I brought it along with the kitchen phone on our latest trip to San Angelo, TX. We now have unlimited calls in and out while traveling, and it's our home number. I haven't tried it, but they don't exclude using it for a dial-up internet connection, so it might do that if you can't get a broadband connection.
So far it's working great and saves our cell phone's limited minutes. So my DW can talk to her mother for an hour a couple times per week without worries.