On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:00:39 +1030, Tim wrote: [...] >> <http://www.grandstream.com/user_manuals/HandyTone.pdf> > > That device looks like it sits between your phone and a network > connection to the internet. If you have a modem/router you don't even > need a computer. It's a stand-alone device, a network device in itself. > > If you don't have a modem/router, then you'd need to use a computer to > share the internet connection between itself and the ATA, much the same > way as you share the internet between more than one PC. I connect to a SMC7004VWBR router/firewall wirelessly, but well enough for skype. I would be using my computer as a gateway, of sorts, with this device? [...] > That's a software phone. You use your computer for VOIP, with whatever > sound devices are plugged into it (mic, speakers, headphones, etc.). [...] The device wouldn't work with Gizmo, then? I'd need a VoIP provider, along the lines of vonage? thanks, Thufir
