Wireless Phone Extension

 

This is not specifically an Internet problem, but it is one of those nice bits of technology that comes along occasionally, that is so simple you wonder why it wasn't developed years ago.


Look at the phone above, which appears to be plugged directly into the mains.

It isn't, the device that is, is one end of a small wireless link that can reach for about fifty metres. Two of these devices add an extension to a typical phone or fax line, so that you can have a fixed phone in another room or office.

The cost is just under £40 from EBuyer for a pair of devices. This cost is typically a lot less than getting an electrician in, who'll probably charge at least £75 for an extension. It's also safer than all of those trailing wires, which you can trip over.

You can also link up to three extensions to the same base station and up to three sets should work together in the same range.

So what would you use them for?

1. Providing a temporary extension in an bedroom for visitors or someone who is confined to their bed. You could use a traditional wireless phone, but few of these are friendly to the disabled or the elderly.

2. Moving the location of a fax machine in an office.

3. Typically on a building site there is power but no phone lines, except in the site office. You could use these devices to put a movable line anywhere on site with a fixed phone, that can't be taken away and lost. If it gets smashed, Argos do a phone for under a fiver!

Think!

One thing they can't do is provide a link for broadband.