I want to put one of the phones in my husband's shop. We have 4 in house. What is longest distance that shop phone would link to house phones?
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The cell phone (connecting via blue tooth) needs to be fairly close to the base--10 feet or less. I have had the hand set out in the yard about 30 - 40 feet from the base and it worked ok--but that is only 1 wall (the house) - I am not sure how a second wall (the shop) would affect reception. Not really a definitive answer but about the best I can do.
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I will also add that the intercom capability of the phones has been fantastic though my wife prefers that I just call from another line. Great ring tone selection and honestly NO problems with system whether batteries or otherwise in the past 2 years I have owned my 3 phone system. I reviewed dozens of systems before making this purchase on the Internet and locally.
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i have used vtech out in the street some 80+ feet from the base; it will depend type material the walls of the house & garage are made of
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I would suggest trying one to see if it works. The issue is of distance and what the walls of the shop are. If they are metal, you will probably have some problems. Best answer is to try it and see.
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As Joseph said, the best you could do is while being on the phone, start walking towards the shop to see if the call quality degrades.
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We also have 4 phones. We have used our HANDSET 3 about 50' from the Base Unit. There was only 1 wall between the base and handset. Unsure what a 2nd wall would do for reception. When the cell was connected by bluetooth, the cell was about 5' from base unit. Very pleased with units.
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It will easily reach 200 ft. I have a house that has steel siding. I take the phone outside on my 5 acre lot. I make and take phone calls outside all the time. It is a great phone. Anyone with a Bluetooth cell phone should have one. I get very poor cell reception in my house. So I set my cell in the best place for reception which is about 14 direct ft. away with 3 walls in between it and the V-tech. It works well. I had 2 land phone lines when I got this V-Tech. I dropped 1 line when I got this phone. Using my cell, it literally works as well as the as any 2 line phone.
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The phone is hard wired connection, Ethernet cord. Just use a powerline adapter and you can place this phone anywhere in the house where there is a power outlet. You don't need a wireless adapter or a phone jack. So if there is a power outlet next to your bed, or in the kitchen, you can put this phone there. Powerline adapters use the electricity in your house for your "Ethernet" connection.
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No, the phones operate on only a shared phone line, and unless the two homes have the same phone line, I do no see this working.
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No, you can only conference someone else in your house to the person you dialed on the phone. I still love the set of phones. The last set I bought lasted 10 years.
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hi, an update on my previous note...I used the locator/intercom feature with my husband. He answered his phone in the basement and it came through the intercom. Thanks for making me aware of this feature!
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We don't have this one any longer because of a lightning zap, however, we regularly took it out to the chicken coops with us, which are from 75-90' from the house as well as down the 200' driveway. It didn't begin cutting out until we left the driveway on the way to the mailbox. You do not need a phone jack for the second phone, if I recall.
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Same problem. Except that I figured out how to connect to another BT phone but not to other devices that you can't tell your "code" to. Can someone explain to me how I'm supposed to connect to an automatic kiosk, like the Kodak digital printing machines at the mall? There's no place to enter your made up "code" into the kiosk so this phone won't conenct. !!?? My father's Samsung flip phone works fine. !!?? It doesn't ask for any damn code. Any ideas? Can you turn off the "code" requriement for BT connections?Help!
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You can buy an additional handset at Amazon, they work fine. Distance from main may be over 150 feet. The base is good for two handset and two different numbers.However you can use only one handset at the same time, they also work like an intercom
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My guess would be your own cellphone. This really works awesome at home, I guess you can take this phone wherever you go and connect it to the Wifi too
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Hi. I hesitate to answer this because I am not sure of the exact range of these devices. However, I can tell you that it is being used for communication purposes from the "main house" to what most people would consider an In-laws quarters way on the other side. For the price and the quality of the device, the worst thing that could happen is that you would have to send it back. Probably worth the try! Hope this helps.
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We live in an earthborne house (3 sides underground) we had 1 bar to noo service everwhere in our house. We got the Wilson electronic device and now have 3 to 4 bars everywhere in the house, even the back rooms. To us, its well worth the money. We have the outside device pointed toward the nearest cell phone tower (doesnt have to be your carrier's tower, then locate the inside receiver in a central location within the house.
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I would go on the Net 10 site and type in your zip code. It will show you the phones that will work in your zip code area. I bought 200 minutes regularly with it.
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I've got three in a two story house all in different rooms maybe 30 feet apart - I think the distance doesn't matter so much as long as it's connected to the same house wiring, as it communicates through the house wiring.
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Yes, a phone "base" does need to be in the immediate proximity of the router. My cousin recommended the 'magicjack go" to me and he has the main base (plugged into the router through the magicjack) and 3 extension phones (paired to the base) in various rooms of his home and it works just fine for him. I hope this helps answer your question.
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The way mine is hooked up is simple. The Bluetooth box connects to the base of your handset system. The Bluetooth box searches for and locates your smartphone. Thereafter, whenever your smartphone comes within range of the phone--about 70 feet--the blue light on the box stops blinking and goes solid blue, indicating that your handset system is now actively linked to your smartphone. When your smartphone rings, so do all of your handsets in every room of your home (in my case, five handsets). If the smartphone has the caller on it's Contacts list, you'll hear that name announced on all your handsets, as in "John Smith." Otherwise, what you hear announced is the odd word "Klink," which is your handset system doing its best to say the word "XLINK." So to the best of my understanding, all you need to do is make your the Bluetooth box is plugged into your handset system's base, and from there on everything should work fine. Mine is simply great tech. Let me know if this didn't respond to your question, corded phones being so rare these days.
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any. there's even a way to forward to your cell if the 'home' line is unanswerable. you can ring a second line simultaneously, even if it's off premise. the customer service at phone power should be able to answer any of your questions in great detail.
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I can go out to our shop which is approx 50 feet from our house and it still works. This is with the phone base at the other end of the house from the shop too. It starts beeping at you when you go to far which is nice that it doesn't just cut out. I don't see a headset jack on it though.