Why is my home phone plugged into my router

[urolaj]

Everyone i ask about their home phone says its plugged straight into their ont but mine is iin my router. this is limiting my choice of purchasing a dual band router. and reason that slingshot would have done this?

 

[bill001g]

Because you no longer have a true phone line in your house is the short answer. Really only DSL which runs on phone lines already will allow you to use a regular phone.

All other things are converting the phone connection from the old analog to something else. Generally most things are variations of VoIP. Because some ISP are implementing solutions that dedicate special bandwidth for voice and have things like batteries to allow you to have phone during power outages you need special routers to connect to those systems.

Mostly your issue is you are looking to buy phone service from your ISP. This tends to be a poor deal they try to bury in the bundling pricing.

Your best bet is to shop one of the many VoIP services. You can buy SIP phones what will plug directly into any router or you can get small adapters that convert old analog phones to SIP. These you can use any router you like. The downside is unlike the system requiring the special routers you do not get things like a priority path for your voice traffic and you would have to find a way to provide power during outages yourself.

It really depends why you want a old style phone line. It has gotten to the point almost everyone has cellphones.