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Whistle Stopper - D-Link DPH-50U Skype USB Phone Adapter
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $16.95
Your Save: $ 13.04 ( 43% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: D-Link
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: D-Link
EAN: 0790069289743
Feature: Use your regular phone to make Skype Internet Telephone Service calls
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: D-Link
Manufacturer: D-Link
Model: DPH-50U
Modem Description: None
Publisher: D-Link
Special Features: nv:Communications Type^VoIP
Studio: D-Link
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Features
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Use your regular phone to make Skype Internet Telephone Service calls
Receive and make both regular telephone and Skype Internet Telephone calls on the same phone
In-call switching, conference calling, call forwarding, and toll bypassing
Includes two RJ-11 ports and a USB port to connect your regular phone line, phone and computer
Gives you the best of both worlds--the features of your existing phone and the low cost advantages of Skype
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent cost saving, practical gadget!
Comment: I work in international sales and I bought it for my country distributors in different countries. It really allow me to be in touch as we're in the same town, we call each other any time and even the quality of the calls, sometimes are better than regular phone calls. We also get rid of the mic and earphones so the environment around the PC looks cleaner.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dial from house phone HELP?
Comment:
Dialing From house phone ? Help me! I can Dial From Skype Software & talk on any phone. But Dial SKype from a House phone has been a challenge Can any body help me. I dont wanna Dial From Skype Dial pad. I wanna take my phone to bed & Dial from House phone Key pad. Email me please( elliot 2698 @ yahoo . com ) Love it . some still me email me tips
Customer Rating:
Summary: Grate value: works very well
Comment: Works very well once you figure out what you need to do.
If you are using Vista, be sure to download new drivers.
The instructions are pretty vague, but manageable. But it goes like this:
1. Download the drivers from Dlink
2. Install the drivers
3. Plug in the phone adapter
4. Finish the installation
5. Open up Skype and tell it to use VOIP for both the MIC and the Speaker.
(If you don't do this, you will not hear anything from the phone, you will just hear it through the computer.)
The Dlink Adapter software takes care of the "+" sign you need to add when dialing a number in skype. Then you just pickup the phone and dial the normal 001-555-222-1234 or what ever number you want from the phone.
If you dive a little further in skype you can assign speed dials to your contacts, this allows you to call your skype contacts that do not have skype phone number.
Overall it the phone adapter works very, very well. I can tell no real difference between the quality of Skype using a headset or using a phone. Of course, it pays to use a good quality phone, not your grandma's hand me down cordless with a telescopic antenna.
Reviewer Background Information:
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Education: Masters Degree
Other: 10 years experience in computer industry, 3 months using skype.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty darn good (XP, never used the drivers on CD..)
Comment: It works well and does the job. It makes a little switching click when a call arrives which I don't mind. I think it introduces a little bit of sound degradation, but it wasn't enough for me to bother to unplug the phone and compare.
I use it for international land-line calls (skypeout) and the quality is still far superior to what I was getting from comcast hands down.
I only use it on windows xp (so I can't speak for vista), and as a matter of principle, I never bother with device drivers that come on a supplied cd-rom media because almost always there is a newer version on-line. I downloaded the drivers from d-link website (indeed it was a newer version) and installation went without a hitch.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easily a 5 star product (if you do it right)
Comment: First of all read Affordabletech's review. It has everything to get you going. I will summarize:
1. Throw away the CD that came with the product.
2. Get the latest Vista driver (even if you have XP) from the dlink website.
3. Unzip it to some folder. Double click on Setup.exe
4. Some driver-installation windows will pop-up, point them to the location where you unzipped the zip file.
5. Now connect your dlink hardware to the computer.
It works flawlessly. (I tried it with XP-SP2). I cannot praise it enough.
Another tip: To call a US phone, dial 001-area-code-phone-number followed by #. (Configure the dlink software to use # as a transmit character, it defaults to * on mine). OR you could leave the default and press * on the handset to transmit the number to dial. And make sure Skype is configured to use this new device for incoming/outgoing sounds and also the ringing tone.
I subscribed to skype's unlimited US&Canada calling and also got myself a skype-in number and I am in VOIP heaven. Bye bye land phone-lines.
For the price (10 bux AR), it's really a 7-8 star product.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The DPH-50U Skype USB Phone Adapter combines all the great features of your existing telephone, with the low-cost advantages of the Skype Internet Telephone Service. Using your existing telephone enables you to use your telephone's built-in features such as speed dial, redial, mute and caller ID2. Using a cordless phone even unties you from your computer while making Skype calls. Best of all, there is no additional equipment to buy to start using the DPH-50U. Includes two RJ-11 ports and a USB port to conveniently connect your regular phone line, telephone and computer
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