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 | Title : GE 96595 InstaJack for Phones
Author : General Electric
Release Date : 20010724
Binding : Electronics
Regular Price : $74.99
Amazon.com Price : $56.99
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Editorial Reviews :
Instantly add an additional phone jack to any room in your house, saving expensive phone line hookup fees. Use with telephones and answering machines. No wiring, drilling, or tools required; just plug it in. Create unlimited extensions in home, bedrooms, kitchen, home office, and elsewhere. (Use model TL96596 for extension unit.) Model 96595 offers built-in surge suppression and contains the base unit, an extension unit, and a 6-foot cord.
Buyer Reviews :
I bought this product because I needed a phone in my family room, which is really an enclosed patio without electrical wiring in the walls. I actually first bought the Radio Shack branded product, which I returned becuase it picked up too much static and stopped working after a couple of hours. After getting the GE product, I looked at the back panel and found out that it, the Radio Shack and the RCA product are all identical except for branding.
Both the Radio Shack and GE products worked perfectly when first hooked up. The Radio Shack product did not come with a manual, so after I returned it and got the GE product I read the manual and learned that they cannot be used with an extension cord. I hooked up the GE product directly to an outlet with high hopes one night.
The next morning, the static made the extension line useless. By the afternoon, I could not get a dial tone off either the base unit or the extension. Worse than that, every other phone in my house, not even attached to the product, lost their dial tone! Unplugging and resetting the units only solved the problems for all phones for a day or less. I experimented, and found that the problem was that I ran my phone line in and out of my computer. Luckily, I have a cable modem and only used my dial up as an emergency backup, so I was able to disconnect the phone line from the computer.
Although the product now works fine, I cannot give it the full 5 stars because (1) the product is fussy and the manual does not provide all fixes, and (2) I doubt the product will work when I switch to DSL and need to connect my phone line to the DSL modem. For that reason, I will actually return the product this week. I would hate to spend [the money]now, only to trash the system when I switch to DSL.
(by An electronics fan)
Features/Technical Specs :
* Add an additional phone jack without wiring
* Use with corded/cordless phones, fax, Web TV, Satellite
* Create unlimited extensions in home with Extension Unit
* Built-in Surge suppression
* Installs in just minutes
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