[Web4lib] Anyone using voip Wi-Fi phones in their libraries?

[Phillips, Carrie]

Greetings,

Our library monitors a telephone at the reference desk, and the librarian on duty carries the phone with them to other parts of our 4-floor library if he/she leaves the desk.  A Panasonic Gigarange Extreme 2.4 GHz analog telephone has worked well for us for years but is wearing out and must be replaced.  We considered but decided against a cell plan.

We have Wi-Fi access throughout the building.  Does anyone have experience with either the Belkin or Netgear Wi-Fi phones that work with Skype?  Is anyone aware of a device that will take an analog phone signal and extend it to an IP network?  Are there other solutions out there?

Thank you,

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Carrie Phillips
Musselman Library
Bluffton University
1 University Drive
Bluffton, OH  45817-2104
phillipsc at bluffton.edu<mailto:phillipsc at bluffton.edu>
419-358-3275 (office)
419-358-3384 (fax)