robepps
03-12-2004, 09:14 PM
I am moving into a new house, with my home office in a separate building about 200 feet from the house. The phone lines and internet service (a T-1 line, believe it or not) terminate in a box at the house. So I am trying to figure out the easiest way to get phone and internet service to my home office.
In order to avoid having to run a long conduit with phone and network cables from house to office, I would like to put the internet router in the house close to where the lines come in, then hook up to this router an 802.11g access point with an external antenna. The computers in my office could then access the network through individual WiFi devices, or a single WiFi bridge to the house network.
My question: is there a way I can run my phone line through the network? Is there a device that plugs into a phone line and a network, providing some service like VoIP that I can then access elsewhere on the network with a VoIP phone (or a normal phone connected to some kind of network device)? Hopefully not something costing many $thousands and designed for big corporate offices?
In order to avoid having to run a long conduit with phone and network cables from house to office, I would like to put the internet router in the house close to where the lines come in, then hook up to this router an 802.11g access point with an external antenna. The computers in my office could then access the network through individual WiFi devices, or a single WiFi bridge to the house network.
My question: is there a way I can run my phone line through the network? Is there a device that plugs into a phone line and a network, providing some service like VoIP that I can then access elsewhere on the network with a VoIP phone (or a normal phone connected to some kind of network device)? Hopefully not something costing many $thousands and designed for big corporate offices?