Love the idea of VOIP but not the awful handsets or sitting at my pc to contol things 

Just linked up one of these to my Beocom PSTN (older style with 3 Beocom 2 and 3 Beocom 6000 attached)

http://www.voipvoice.com/UConnect-2.html

Now I can make and receive normal PSTN calls as well as Skype calls from any Beocom handset, and the skype is voice activated

You also pick them up for approx £10

Only downside is the callerid for skype doesn't seem to work but you do get a computer voice on the beocom handset telling you who is calling and giving you the option to accept, so I can live with that

Hi there,

that sounds very interesting and i would appreciate if you could explain me exactly how you have connected the cables.

do you connect the same pstn to both main line and pc?

do you use a seccond pstn for skype ( pc ) ?

Can you share your connection; pictures and explenations on how connected?

I assume you can connect a Beocom 6000 directly/only into the adapter. Possible to pick-up for 10GBP? price on homepage is ~$60; cable looks propriteray.

Klas
Wanting to catch-up with the marching leader

If I have read it correctly this is some kind of adapter that plugs a PSTN phone into a PC.

 What I would be really uinterested in is a box that lets me plug in a normal phone in and make VOIP calls without needing to go via the PC. Do such things exist?

 Simon

The best decription of how to conenct can be found here

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=1185

Basically the device plugs into the USB port on the PC. Then the Beoline Base plugs into the device and a cable goes from there to the phone line 

This is also the cheapest site I can find

Its a skype only solution I believe you can get routers to work with other viop providers (Vonage) - ie no pc needed or viop phones for skype that don't need the pc, but I haven't seen a no pc skype solution for ordinary phones as yet

If one appears I'm defiinately buying it