Editorial Review:Product Description: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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Grate value: works very well
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.
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Pretty darn good (XP, never used the drivers on CD..)
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.
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Easily a 5 star product (if you do it right)
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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Not ready for prime time
I'm running Vista, and that was problem #1. The drivers that ship with it don't work on Vista. Calling D-Link customer service is an exercise in anger management. Unbelievably complex menus to get to a technician. And they require you to give name, phone, email, address, before they will even begin to talk with you.
The product still won't work after downloading updated drivers. It's trying to engage, but it won't.
An hour is too long to spend trying to set up a simple product like this. (That's what I get for being cheap!) Spend $10 or $20 more and get one that will work out of the box. That's what I'm going to go do now - buy a better one that gets better reviews.
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No problems running on Vista here
I was very much on the fence about buying this product because of some of the reviews. But for $9.99 after rebate, I figured it was worth a try.
I use Skype primarily for communicating with my out of state employer. I had a Logitech speakerphone that I used with Skype, but I really wanted to be able to use my wireless phones in the house so I didn't have to be at the computer during our entire conversations, and I didn't want to spend more than $40 for a solution at the moment.
I didn't have any problems installing the drivers on Vista Ultimate (just download the latest drivers from the website and follow the instructions). I'm also NOT having any issues with the program crashing or hogging memory like others reported.
I use a VoIP provider (similar to Vonage) as my primary phone service because it's always been better than my Skype service, and I was happy that this device works with it just like it's a regular phone service. This device has no problems so far with my VoIP service or the Skype service. This product was a great deal!
