Voip Blog
Hooking up
Thursday, October 19, 2006
I've got this !@#$% voip internet phone headset, with cruddy mic quality and hot earphones and while we're at it, let's not forget the fiddly jack connection that is nothing less than the galaxy's penultimate static generator. It sucks all the fun-and-easy right out of any voip experience, trust me.
Naturally, I'm looking at USB phones. Something that's easy to pick up and answer, because I'm going to level with you, if anyone managed to immortalize the spectacle of me trying to answer a PC voip call using my Headset, we could make a fortune on one of those funniest home video shows--ahem, coordination isn't natively part of my skill set.
That shiny, silver, Enterprise-looking doohickey up there isn't a USB phone, but for $40, it'll let me plug any one of the regular old phones currently languishing in my junk drawer right into the laptop and use it for calls. It's called the V901 converter, and it acts as a USB/PSTN switch, letting you take PC or traditional calls as needed. Now that's just cool.
