Transform Normal Phone To Skype Phone HOWTO

May 28th, 2005 · No Comments

Normal Phone hacked to be connected to PC

A nice tutorial to convert your phone to connect it to your PC can be found here. The guy found out how to do with by the scientific method of Trial & Error:

So, the problem. You have a computer, your friend has a computer, you both have a broadband connection, and you make use of Skype or like the voice chat in MSN or something like this - And - you’re sick and tired to sit by the computer all the time when you talk. And you might even sit with one of these ridiculous headset (hmm, yes I also have one) on your head just because the echo cancellation feature isn’t that great in reality.

So, the solution. A year ago or so I tried to connect a professional headset from Plantronics to my computer just because they’re so damn good and fit perfect. Well, I did get it to work after having a couple of boxes in-between the computer and the headset, but I was still tied to the computer. Now, I’ve seen some other devices around that basically give you an handset to connect to the USB port and then you can use that. Well, you’re still tied to the computer huh? No fun. Then I read in a local magazine (Veronica magazine here in the Netherlands) about Siemens making a DECT USB adapter so that you can connect your DECT phone to the computer - and I though Wow! that’s what I need. Well, €119 for another toy that I’ll use like not that often? I don’t think so. But hey, I have an old Siemens Gigaset 3010 phone laying around that my children play with (’cause the 2 key was a bit broken), I wonder if I can use that one? So I did.