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Home telephone system ?
Q. Does anyone know anything about creating a telephone system? I want to connect all my telephone points up to one point then get transferred on. I want probably about 2 or more telephone line which can be used on any telephone. Also a internal telephone so I can transfer calls from one room to another. I am looking at connecting all the telephone points to a telephone connection box. I am assuming that I do need a kind of switch or something.
A. A multi-handset DECT cordless will provide intercom / external call hold and transfer, but multi-line ones are hard to find. There are small PBX (private branch exchanges) suitable for domestic use including the Panasonic KXTA 206 and 624. The 206 handles 2 external lines and 6 extensions and does not require a proprietary keyphone for programming. The 624 is equipped for 3 lines 8 extensions, with expansion cards to add 3+8 or 0+8 to take the max system to 6 lines 24 extensions. The 642 does require one proprietary keyphone for programming. Wiring is fairly straightforward - a 'home run' of cable from each extn point back to the PBX. If you have broadband you use a filter on the external line going into the PBX. Most DECT handsets will talk to more than one base station but only one at a time, you can't accept incoming calls on any line. The old Rabbit system is much missed here, that used to do it, the build quality of the handsets was the only letdown, which is why I'm not still using them. Firstly, do you want a wired or wireless (dect) system. If dect only would be ok then there are products availiable for this. Personally i'm using a Solwise S-308 wired system (with some dect units, 2 real lines and one call sign number) and it works brilliantly, only thing is its discontinued. Best bet is probably looking at whats availible second hand, the panasonic systems are meant to be quite good and fairly readily availiable, there are others however. As for doing it as long as you are competant at wiring a phone socket then yes its perfectly simple. Here I have used my ethernet points and got some inline PBX masters which works well and makes it more versatile (its sensible to lay cat5e these days anyway). Some people do seem to think this overkill (i.e. my friends) but it does save shouting and makes alot of sense for not much outlay if you have more than one line, in terms of convinience its a brilliant system to have with the bonus of being able to impose a blanket ban on 09x and 118 services without paying bt for the privilidge (you can obviously extend this to mobiles, international etc from all or some extentions etc; pretty standard although will vary depending on system). One day bt might wake up to the fact that their ultimate 106 is a perfectly good product, if they made a bigger 206 \ 208, 312 ect system that can actually cope with more lines.
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