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Phone Systems - Any Good Ones?
Q. I have cat-5e home run wiring to every room for the phone system, so I'd prefer to take advantage of this and not use the base station + cordless type setup. Plus I've heard bad stories on both the Panasonic 4000B and the Siemens Gigaset 2040 units. I'll have 4 CO lines into my home, 2 for business and 2 for home. I would need separate answering machine messages based on the line called. I could do this through the Phone Company, but then I would like an indicator on the phone to indicate a message present, instead of having to pick the phone up to hear the fast dial tone. I would like to be able to use internal intercom and paging features, and to have Caller ID on the phone. I would like the system to support both corded and cordless phones of different colors. Why do all the AT&T phones have to be Black?!? I like the AT&T 954 system, but it doesn't support Caller ID or cordless. The 964 system seems to royally suck even though it adds caller ID and an answering machine to the 954.
A. Take a look at the Panasonic KX-TA624 I think it's great and have installed quite a few for SOHO's. It will take up to six outside lines and up to 24 inside phones or devices. It is a small PBX type system with intercom, speed dial, door answer boxes, etc. The proprietary phones like the KX-T7431 have display and all the buttons for easy use but the system lets you plug in regular phones, fax machines, answer machines, plain white cordless phones, etc. They dial 9 or a code to get outside line. Make your business sound professional with music on hold. If you buy the Panasonic voice mail system you will get all that you asked for and more. Be careful in choosing a phone company voice mail. Some phone areas charge for every local call so you run up a bill retrieving your messages. Find out for sure. And then you might have the line busy while retrieving so the next call goes to voice mail and you cycle again. I know very little abt phone systems... but find this thread interesting. What abt these new phone systems that send voice data over IP standards? IOW... do they "digitize" your voice and can send it over a small home network? You may find that our TalkSwitch 48-LS will solve many of your issues described in your post, however it is a bit more expensive than you may like. Our PBX is designed for the SOHO (small office home office) starting at $1395 for a 4 line in, 8 local extensions and 8 remote extensions and can be wired into your cat-5e. The advantage of our PBX is that it will work with any regular analog or cordless phones you presently have, has voicemail, and very powerful call handling capabilities. You can easily have two different auto attendants answering the phones, one for business calls and the other for family calls, it can also detect and route incoming faxes. There are no hidden or additional costs for standard PBX functionality such as voicemail, caller id, message indicator, etc.
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