Philips Wireless Phone Jack System - Turn any AC outlet into a Phone Jack

I have been searching for something to allow me to put a multifunction fax machine in a room without a phone jack. Let me tell you, I didn't want to run wires, or spend a lot of money on this. I found some reviews of other products here on Amazon that recommended the Philips wireless phone jack system. I'm SO happy with this purchase! It worked immediately, and with very little setup. You just plug the base into an outlet near a working phone jack. Connect the base to the phone jack, then place the receiver in an outlet in the room you want the phone or fax. Then you just run the phone cable from the fax to the receiver. And presto! Both the base and the receiver have an indicator light on them (green for "online", red for "line down"). My only complaint is that they are bulky. But I don't care as long as I don't have to pay the phone company to run cables and install a new jack. Thank you Philips!

Quick and easy to set up; just plug one unit in near an existing telephone outlet, and plug in the phone line into the "line" jack, and the phone into the other jack. I got this wireless phone jack so I could hook up a phone line to my Dish Network TV set box, to allow it to display Caller ID on my TV. Works great, but sometimes the Caller ID shows up on the TV when we aren't getting a phone call! It usually displays unknown number, and some random characters for the name. Must be some interference.

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These units relay the signals via the A/C wiring that it is plugged into and not via radio-frequency signals (like e.g. cordless phones do). The pro of that approach is that in principle it can reach throughout the house (or building) with little reduction in signal strength. However, it also means that noise on the A/C wires comes through the extended phone line, and in my case that noise is impairing conversation. I'm not sure what is causing the bulk of the line noise, but the manual mentions dimmers, fluorescent lights, and surge protection devices as possible culprits and all of those are present in my house (and I think that's pretty common). I've tried a few different locations, but alas it didn't help. Even plugging the base and extension units in adjacent outlets sharing the same A/C box doesn't fix things.

So I suspect that for many this solution (and others like it) may not work.

In addition to these problems, my units were not matched out of the box (as they are expected to be). I had to follow the re-programming procedure explained in the trouble-shooting section, and even that didn't go entirely smoothly.

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Basically, I bought this item because I wanted to connect a fax machine in a place in our home where no Jack was present. I read about the interference when making voice calls in other reviews, but hoped this would not mess with fax transmissions. Truly, the noise on the line is incredible and I think it would be impossible for me to make voice calls using this phone jack; however, every fax transmission and reception has been flawless. Therefore, I would certainly recommend this for a fax machine or data machine and would give it 5 stars for this purpose alone. But I don't want to mislead those who are looking to use it with phones for voice calls (for this purpose I would give it 1 star) because I would imagine that it would be totally unusable for voice calls based on the interference I can hear when the fax is dialing to send facsimiles. Therefore, I have given it 3 stars overall!

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It performs as advertised. I needed phone line in my office so my wife can use her TTY phone from her desk with the nearest phone jack over 50 feet away in another room. After reading reviews for other similar devices I found it very confusing as to whether it was voice only, data only, or it supported both. My wife's phone passes both voice and data.

Because the descrition for the Phillips jack said it supported both voice and dial up internet, I went with it. I am happy to report that the relay phone does indeed work as well as caller ID.