Could a second cordless phone base unit be connected via a splitter so both cordless base units would accept an incoming cell call ?
929526
I actually haven't done this, but I don't know any reason why it wouldn't work. I had landline telephone service (POTS-Plain Old Telephone Service) from the local telephone company (Verizon in my case). I brought a new cell phone and went through the process of rolling over the my landline telephone number to the new cell phone, a process that can take a few days. Once the new cell phone became active with my old number, the landline connection, naturally, went dead because there was no longer a phone number associated with that connection. I then went outside to the telephone network connection box on the side of the house and disconnected my home telephone wiring from the telephone network (an important step!), depending on your home's wiring you may also need to connect wires coming from the house to keep all the RJ-11 ports connected. I then connected the Xlink to the home telephone wiring (just plugged it into one of the RJ-11 ports in the house) and the Xlink now "charges" all the RJ-11 ports around the house (only 3 in my case). With the cell phone connected to the Xlink via Bluetooth any phone (and every phone) that would of worked with my landline service will ring when the cell phone receives an incoming call and can pick up the call. I have noticed that the phones do not start ringing until after the second ring (that is, the caller will hear a ring before your phones actually start ringing), but everything otherwise works just like I was still connected to POTS. It's just a lot less expensive in my case (I'm using prepaid cell phone service for this). Where I believe some people have problems with this is in their home telephone wiring and I would suggest you get someone to help you figure out your wiring if you don't understand basic telephone wiring.
929527
I don't know. Not sure why you would need a 2nd base unit. I use one with 5 cordless handsets and 2 cellphones.
1498006
If you have 2 separate land-lines from your phone company, you can make and receive calls on both lines from a single 2-line handset
1454545
There is an intercom between the handsets and base unit. See also Vtech's website for more info at, http://www.vtechphones.com/products/product_detail/2359
388782
Yup, I have two of these units. I use it with CallCentric as my provider. Works great.
486819
I would guess so. We ran it with a very long piece of telephone wire. I'd guess you could simply get a splitter for telephone cable and that two phones would ring.
2036825
I don't think that should be a problem. I've attached multiple devices (e.g., PC, fax, phone, etc.) to one phone line. The only catch might be that if there is a power loss or low temperature then both might be effected and will try and call out at the same time.
2275478
Sort of. You could setup a shared line appearance and they'd both ring at the same time. A lot of this depends on which VOIP system you're using, as this would be a feature of the system.
1480147
No, there are 4 ports on the back of the Base unit and each port can handle up to 4 phones using standard splitters.
101128
Yes. You can even have a call going on one handset on Cell 1, another on Cell 2, and a third on the landline. It's very versatile.
1343637
The unit must be plugged in to a telephone outlet and, since the Verizon unit has two outlets, I would presume it would work. I can't guarantee it, though, because the ringer is at my mother's house and the Verizon unit is at my house...
578771
only if you were to both have separate phone numbers and separate base units with each listed as each others 1st call but you would not be able to talk for long as pressing 5 stops the rotation and neither would have a hand set to do this. The simple answer is no.
466727
Yes. You only need to hooked up the base unit to the phone line. It works well.
1677256
Think of it as a replacement handset. If two people could be on the same line were the headset not installed through using an extension or conference calling; then yes, otherwise no. The unit has no capability to add another person to the call.
1583962
I highly doubt it. I would say that ONLY if the other DECT 6 base station has the ability to be programmed to detect other DECT 6 devices, then you may have a chance to connect (usually a phone system is designed to connect/link to like DECT devices). From Wikipedia: "The DECT standard includes a standardized interoperability profile for simple telephone capabilities, called GAP, which most manufacturers implement." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Enhanced_Cordless_Telecommunications). So, I'd say there is a chance it could work.
138702
I plugged my cordless set directly into one port and connect the other port with the original landline phone outlet of the house after unplugging the art income line to the junction box outside the house. So one number is with cordless set and the other using original landline outlets of the house
536730
The answer is you can do HALF of that. You can have up to 4 base stations on one Internet connection to one house. But if you want to have two handsets with a separate Skype account on each handset, you must have two base stations. This was exactly my question because my wife and I each have our own Skype account and we wanted to use a cordless handset without having to turn on our computers to make a Skype call. The solution is you buy two base units and two handset -- actually 2 of the VOIP841 product because each comes with one base and one handset. I can tell you after having these two VOIP841 phones for about a week that it works really well and the set up for two Skype accounts was easy. I thought I would have to configure something to get it to work. Not at all. The instructions say to connect the bases to your Internet connection and landline and power, then power up the handsets. I guess Philips designed this system for this situation because by default each handset seeks its own base. Presumably if I turned off one base and reset the orphan handset it would seek and connect itself to the remaining base, but I have not tried this. (But then both handsets would be on a single Skype account.) Each base provides its own website where you can go and change settings and check status. It is actually in the base that the Skype account info resides, not in the handset. I really recommend this phone! I have a SkypeIn number, and it is nice to take and make calls through Skype on a cordless and leave the computer turned off. I haven't tried to see how far the cordless range is, but it works anywhere I take it, inside or out. Also, we are frequently on two Skype calls at once, using each of our handsets, and we notice no degradation or impact on our calls. But then again, we have a high capacity broadband connection -- 5mb down, 650kb up. Good luck! :)
1735229
Yes, there are two and they are synchronized to the same signal so it will work from one phone.