DECT Phones - Miltiple handsets

coolio_2

Does anyone know if philips 413 dect phones, if i buy 2 handsets, are they pretty easy to run off the same line?

pealy

My advice would be to try and find an online manual for anything you're thinking of buying. I was under the impression that DECT phone handsets were pretty much interchangeable so that you could use any old handset on any old dect phone and add new ones if you liked. This is simply not the case, my Philips (not the model you mention) will not allow me to add any new handsets (the manual has no instructions on this), only the 2 which came with it will work. The BT base I bought is supposed to allow extra handsets to be added but the one I have from a more recent BT base will not register.

coolio_2

Thanks for that. I was just going to buy 2 philips of the same. Ill search for the manual

Browntoa

there are also DECT "G" handsets as well which won't work with older base stations working on the older DECT standard

dc

coolio wrote:

Does anyone know if philips 413 dect phones, if i buy 2 handsets, are they pretty easy to run off the same line?

Yes you only need to plug one handset base into the phone line and then follow the instructions on how to "register" another handset to that "base station". Philips later Dect phones can have up to 8 handsets registered, and if they are GAP compatible they dont have to be Philips ones, but any other make.
To register another handset you usually just have to unplug the power to the base station for a few seconds and that puts it into a search mode for around 30 secs. With the new handset in register mode, you input the base code, usually 0000, into the new handset and they should then see each other. The code is usually printed on the bottom of the base station, if not it will be in the manual.

HTHs dc