Wireless Phone Connection to Laptop

[FATBOYPEE]

Anyone got any ideas where I can buy a wireless phone connector for a landline that can plug into a normal modem port of my laptop ?? ie I want cable-less connection to my landline from my laptop without setting up a home network ?

Any ideas ?? URLS ??

Thanks

Peeman.

[Yash_Kumar]

Originally posted by FATBOYPEE
Anyone got any ideas where I can buy a wireless phone connector for a landline that can plug into a normal modem port of my laptop ?? ie I want cable-less connection to my landline from my laptop without setting up a home network ?

Any ideas ?? URLS ??

Thanks

Peeman.

I doubt there is such a product... telephone signals cant be transmitted as it is... u would need to have a decoder and encoder... and them transmit it as any sort of signals to your PC... something like that ought to be expensive if its out there

[Yash_Kumar]

why dont u just buy a longer phone line.... it would be way more cheaper...

[FATBOYPEE]

I'm a lazy fatboy, I just wanna be'portable' , lounge on my sofa while surfing the web....then move if I want to ?

I'd've thought there would be a product out there as all a Modem is, is a phone receiving data, really ? You can get cordless phones from a base station transmitter ? (DECT phones).......

Thanks anyway.

Peeman.

[Yash_Kumar]

Originally posted by FATBOYPEE
I'm a lazy fatboy, I just wanna be'portable' , lounge on my sofa while surfing the web....then move if I want to ?

I'd've thought there would be a product out there as all a Modem is, is a phone receiving data, really ? You can get cordless phones from a base station transmitter ? (DECT phones).......

Thanks anyway.

Peeman.

You dont understand the concept... trasmitting a phone line is different. A cordless transmittor only transmits sound to the receiver.... and the receiver sends sound back.... this wouldn't work if u are going to use it to connect to the internet... if u wanna know why... i could explain that to u later.....

A cell phone works in much the same way... they have their own wireless protocol which is the standard in the wireless industry... however Japan has broken that by introducing Video phones that utitlize high speed wireless networks.... so normal cell phones couldn't work on that

Think of a cordless more as a 2 way walkie talkie.. because that is basically what it is... I seriously doubt u can transmit data via cordless... however u can do it through your cell phone as I it supports the conventional data communication method (called analog dialing)... so u could use your cell phone... there are many connectors out there... buy yourself one and connect via your cell phone... dont blame me if I see you on the street in a few months.... (u will loose weight too and will find out why its good to work)

[FATBOYPEE]

My terminology may be a bit vague but I am fully aware of the difference between voice & data communications the analogue telephone line is obviously capable to transmitting data, that data is interfaced via a modem converted into digital.

(DECT, Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telephony) technology provides the capability of interfacing of an analogue telephone line to encode the incoming signals into a digital state (or semi-digital) & relaying to various cordless devices, thus extending the possibilities of cordless technologies as well as improving the quality of the communication, this I knew already, i just didn't know if a product was available that could be plugged into a common modem port in the back of my Laptop.

There ARE products out there as I've found them yesterday after posting here...
(DECT )

FATMAN.

[Yash_Kumar]

Originally posted by FATBOYPEE
My terminology may be a bit vague but I am fully aware of the difference between voice & data communications the analogue telephone line is obviously capable to transmitting data, that data is interfaced via a modem converted into digital.

(DECT, Digitally Enhanced Cordless Telephony) technology provides the capability of interfacing of an analogue telephone line to encode the incoming signals into a digital state (or semi-digital) & relaying to various cordless devices, thus extending the possibilities of cordless technologies as well as improving the quality of the communication, this I knew already, i just didn't know if a product was available that could be plugged into a common modem port in the back of my Laptop.

There ARE products out there as I've found them yesterday after posting here...
(DECT )
FATMAN.

Well, to my knowledge, the cordless I use isn't capable of data trasmission and is just like a normal walkie talkie. In fact all common cordless phones (that are priced reasonably) are based on the my walkie talkie concept. They are only capable of voice transmission

However let me remind u that I didn't say its impossible. u would need a decoder and encoder... telephone signals cant be transmitted as such and thats why u would need one. I believe that is what DECT is all about. But I am pretty sure it would be priced pretty high... whats it selling for?

[Yash_Kumar]

One common misconception people have is that when connecting via dialup, u are connecting to the ISP and communicating with it via sound. That is totally incorrect. Data is transmitted over telephone lines via electrical signals... these electrical signals give off weird hisses and all if u ever picked up the receiver.. So what a cordless would be doing would be transmitting the sounds of the hisses and not the electrical signals....

[plenderj]

Its simple.
Just put a wireless LAN card in the laptop and in the PC.
Put a modem into the pc, and hook it up to the phone line.
Install some freeware proxy server on the pc and hey presto, wireless internet access through a phone line

Alternatively you could use a POTS router, stick a wireless jobby in one of its ethernet ports, and in tcp/ip properties put its IP address as your gateway.

[Yash_Kumar]

Originally posted by plenderj
Its simple.
Just put a wireless LAN card in the laptop and in the PC.
Put a modem into the pc, and hook it up to the phone line.
Install some freeware proxy server on the pc and hey presto, wireless internet access through a phone line

Thats exactly what I do at both home and office... Have a computer connected at home to DSL.... and using the wireless network... sit on the couch in the living room and do work... same way when i am at work. The company has its own wireless network and I automatically am able to connect as soon as I am within range.... that is truly one of Windows XP's neat features.... It automatically detects wireless networks and attempts to login....

[plenderj]

Thats not an XP feature.
Its a WindowsME+2000 feature that wasn't removed in XP.

And the auto-login stuff, that's just using DHCP

[Yash_Kumar]

Originally posted by plenderj
Thats not an XP feature.
Its a WindowsME+2000 feature that wasn't removed in XP.

And the auto-login stuff, that's just using DHCP

lol, I never said it was introduced with XP..

[plenderj]

*mutter*mutter*grumble*

[Gaffer]

I am a complete dildo when it comes to networks, so I offer this nugget of brilliance

Isn't this situation what Bluetooth was designed for?

[Gaffer]

...and less of the spastic noises thankyouverymuch....

[plenderj]

Yeah thats sorta what bluetooth's designed for

[Yash_Kumar]

gaffer, whenever I look at your avatar, i wonder what is it

[Gaffer]

Cool /puts Wireless Networking Expert on CV

Only know it as I'm looking into Bluetooth-enabled Sony Clie with Ericsson 68i Bluetooth phone combo

Yash_Kumar - have a guess....

[Yash_Kumar]

Originally posted by Gaffer

Yash_Kumar - have a guess....

how long away are u?