Long range DECT phone

lil_elvis2000

Hello, I have a office space in a building composed of several old terrace home. and my office is split between two parts in the building. So I'm trying to use a cordless to avoid having to pay $$$$ to BT to add an extension. The problem I'm having is the signal is not good. probably due to the thick walls.I'm looking for a phone or setup which will help this and provide a low-cost solution. I did speak to one company they wanted to install five repeaters! @ £109+vat each! I don't have that kinda cash so looking for something cheaper. The phone signal is not useable...the phone rings but not enough for voice..until I move about 10ft. closer to the base...then signal is strong. Any recommendations?

KeithP

Not sure that you will find a longer range DECT phone... I may be wrong.

But you do not have to get BT to install extension sockets. It is a diy project or get an electrician to do it for you... much cheaper than BT I would imagine.

espresso

You don't have to pay BT to fit an extension, do it yourself!

sleep2much

I would like an extra long distance dect phone too, then maybe I could connect to a neighbours phone and save a few quid, I expect they have limited distance because of this, I'd slap a few wires under the carpet and not be so keen to follow this new fad of everything needing to be wireless, we all fell for the wireless internet, then worry that everybody and his wife wants to access our computer address book.
Buy a couple of phones with the base unit, split them, and your other extension phones will work.

Little_John

To do it on the cheap you just need to move the base station closer to your position by useing a telephone extention that is the only real option. Is the process just to give you access to make call or are there other people that use the same base station? if others use it then moveing it towards you will mess their connection up so additional base stations may be the only option.

You could wire additional base stations on as the phone company sugested but there is the aditional expense. is it just a standard phone in to a BT socket or is it a proper dect phone connected to a telephone system? where everyone has a charger sat on their desk sort of thing?

I have installed base stations in the past on to panasonic phone systems stupid locations like on the roof of a warehouse in a palastic waterproof box rather than the customer wanting to spend the stupid money on an external base station.

lil_elvis2000

The phone is just for us..Moving the base station is a possibility..there is a small store room across the hall which is about 15ft closer to the other office.I would'nt mind wireing the extension myself...the room already has sockets. It would just be a matter of locating the right pair.Otherwise I may have to invest in one of these repeaters.Beats me how I'll get the wireless internet to work. Usually that has less range than these phones!

ormus

telecoms cable about 20 quid for 100m and sockets about 3 quid each.
diy time less than 4 hrs.
www.rswww.com

lil_elvis2000

Thanks, yes that is doable..though the building has phone wires all over the place...there are many tenants you see. I'm the only one with a main floor and a first floor office..though they are not right on top of each other unfortunately. That would have made running an extension very easy. :)I just need to determine which pair go to my office and tie them onto the pair that go to the other office. Any tips on that? I'm hopeing the telephone lines are centralised somewhere...hope springs eternal.