Internal Phone Line?

Question

Well you know the phone lines they have in hotels were if you pick up the phone i your room and dial a certain number you would get through to other rooms in the same building, and i was just wondering if i could do the same in my house, iv got three phone sockets two with phones and one with a wireless box for the internet, could you set up a interal line so i could call from my bedroom (were the wirelss box is) to downstairs to tell the people downstairs something (lik roomservice in hotels,

Thanks

George

Answer 1

I believe the easiest and cheapest way to accomplish this is by purchasing a cordless phone system with several handsets and an intercom function. You only need to plug the base unit into the phone socket, the additional handsets has a charger that plugs into a standard electrical outlet.

Designate a number to each of the handsets, and you can call as well as transfer calls between them. You can have an "extention" in as many rooms as as the number of handsets supported by your base station. I bought a phone that got good scores from the Consumer Report  magazine;  the Panasonic KX-TGA101S, supporting 6 handsets. This phone has a digital answering machine that supports several mailboxes. (To leave a message for "X"; dial 1.  A message for "Y"; dial 2, and so on. Great if your phone is used for both business and personal calls)

Pushing the "Intercom/Transfer" button prompts you to dial the number for the handset you'd like to call or transfer a call to. I have designated different ring-tones and attached an In-House phone list to each handset for ease of use. The distance between your rooms/size of your house, will put some limit to the use of this system. It works well between my house and guest cottage,a distance of about 50' or more, unless your house or the rooms you plan to use this for is larger or farther apart, it should work nicely.

Purchase the phone from a retailer that'll allow you to return or exchange it and you should have no problem.

Hope this help some, and good luck.

Answer 2

Yes you can, there are a couple of ways, one stated is to get a cordless phone that has an internal button on it and this will do what you require. Go to the BT Shop website and there are a number of phones there that can do this.

The other way is to get a system installed, the best and least complicated is a BT system called a Renown. Try ebay for this. Its a 1 + 4, one line, four extensions, this takes very little expertise to install and you can plug in any phone into it as long as it has DTMF tones and a recall button.

Answer 3

To do this you would need to buy a phone system (that contains telephone switch), and then each telephone socked and the main phone line coming in will each have to do that. (Usually phone sockets wire go from to the next (In Series) and this would be changed)

This phone systems like in hotels and offices are not that cheap, but you could try eBay (maby).

A set for phones (usually wireless) have an intercom feature (I think usually come in packs of 2 but you buy more handsets and bases)

I DON'T KNOW If this would work but to use a Internet phone system (i don't know if you can have more than 1 number from broadband line) but these are free to ring other (Internet phone) but each phone would probably have to be connect to a PC.

Answer 4

If you have a twin or triple handset you can make internal calls. They work like an intercom system.

We have the BT Synergy 4100 twin set and we use the internal call feature a lot!

All you need to do is press the INT button and then the number of the handset you wish to call. Then OK.

e.g. INT > 2 > OK