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I have a problem that I need some help with. We have 2 land lines in our house, one for the house, one for the office. Unfortunately, the land lines came into the house near where I had my old office which has since been converted into a kid's playroom. My new (and much smaller I might add) office is now located at the other end of the house. I have a digital phone base plugged into the wall in the kid's playroom and I have one of the portable phones for it on my desk in the office. However, I also have a fax machine that I need to operate in the office as well from time to time. I need a way to get a phone line to it. Here are the options I considered:
1) physically run a phone line all the way around the house exterior and punch in through a wall - while this could be done, it would require a LOT of phone line, take a fair amount of time and leave an unsightly line tacked to the outside of the house, not really my first choice.
2) Get a phone line extender that runs through the house electrical - this is what I am using now, it is a jack that plugs into a wall socket in the kids playroom then you put the other jack into the office wall outlet and have a phone line connected into it. Sometimes this works great, other times depending upon what electrical appliances are running in the house, it sucks and I can't get a fax to go through because there is too much intereference on the line.
What I would like to fine is something that I can plug into the phone line in the kid's playroom that transmits a wireless signal to some sort of phone base in the office that I can then plug the fax machine directly into. If the handset of my current office phone had a jack in its base that would be a workable solution, but it doesn't.
I hope this makes sense, and I hope someone has actually developed a product that someone can point me to in order to solve this dilemma.
I've never seen anything like what you describe......but there are alternatives to running the wire around the outside of the house.
You can get up into the ceiling and run the wire that way. OR, if your house is built on a raised foundation, you can run it through the crawl space. Especially in older houses the crawl space tends to get grungy, so I'd opt for the ceiling......unless it's a two-story house and the rooms in question are on the first floor.
I'd go call an electrician and have him come do the dirty work!
The house has a finished basement (below the office so can't run wires that way) and the office is on the 1st floor of a 2 story so there is a bedroom above, can't run wires that way either.
The fax machine is one of those all-in-one printer/scanner/fax jobs from HP which has bluetooth and 802.11. I was hoping it would let me pair with my cell phone to send faxes that way, but it doesn't support that, or that I could use some sort of internet fax gateway via the 802.11 to say scan it here on the fax portion but instead of dialing the phone connect to some ip gateway and deliver the fax that way instead, but again I didn't see any way to do that either.
I use E-Fax... faxes come to my emails; i scan in to my pc if I need to send something out, or use a print to pdf feature if I need to send something out that's already on the computer. But I have no home phone line, only cell, so I have no other choice.
Well the solution that pops into my head now is VoIP. You can get Cisco IP phones (or some other brand, but I trust Cisco) and basically, the phones will work on the network, so it can be wired/wireless, etc... the possibilities are endless!
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Our main phone line is actually VOIP, all the jacks in the house for it are connected to the cablemodem/Voip router in the basement, there is still the issue of getting a jack for the fax machine to plug into in the office room.
I have considered efax but that requires me to scan the item on the scanner, send it to my PC (it is attached to my wife's pc not mine) and then have me send it out via efax and if I want anything more than some basic features I have to pay for the efax service which wouldn't be worth it with the number of faxes I send and receive on an annual basis. If I had a way to wireless transmit the phone line signal from the play room to the office that would be ideal, I could put the phone base in the office as opposed to the kid's playroom which would give me the phone machine built into it the messages up in the office. I can retrieve them via the handset so I don't have to walk downstairs to retrieve them but still it would be nice to have the base in the office if possible.
It uses 2.4ghz wireless to create phone jacks. They specifically say its superior to powerline methods because it is not affected by noise on the power line, can transmit upto 50kbps, etc.
Our main phone line is actually VOIP, all the jacks in the house for it are connected to the cablemodem/Voip router in the basement, there is still the issue of getting a jack for the fax machine to plug into in the office room.
well if Suneet's solution doesnt work, why not just get a wireless router or one of those faxes that can be connected to a network, I know Xerox makes those but not sure of the model
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Have you looked at something like this: Wireless Phone Jack, or is this similar to what you are already using?
EDIT: Oops, I see SUNEET already suggested the same thing - I should have refreshed before posting my suggestion.
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I use similar products to thsoe suggested by Suneet, never had any problems, they work well. If I'm understanding correctly it should be perfect for your needs.
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