Xtreme Technologies Xlink BTTN Bluetooth Gateway-Black

I bought this because for nostalgia or whatever reason, I love old phones and phone equipment. I've long had an old black rotary Western Electric 500, but like most people these days, no land line to use it on. I researched different brands of 2-wire to bluetooth gizmos, but chose this one because it seemed to be the only one that supported pulse dialing, which for my needs is essential. And it works like a charm. A quick glance over the instructions, and it paired immediately with my Samsung Galaxy 4 running Android 4.3. Plug in the phone, pick up the receiver, get a dial tone. Dial the number, wait for ring. Somebody calls me, that great old physical bell rings like it was 1977. I also checked out the configuration software available from http://www.myxlink.com/xwizard.aspx, and was impressed with the number of configuration options. For example, I turned up the earpiece volume because it seemed a little low to me out of the box, and also set the ringtone to be the UK double-ring, just because I always thought that sounded cool. Other options include different dial tones, pulse dial timing (I wasn't able to dial successfully from an old pin-dial lineman's butt set, but I think tweaking these would make it work), and I think a way to get SMS messages to ring at the phone (though don't quote me on that, I didn't try it). There's many other settings I did not dig into, but this thing seems incredibly tweakable. The software worked fine in Windows 8.1 on the first try. A far as audio quality goes, my friends I've talked to say it sounds great, at least as good as my bluetooth headset, and one person said it had a classic timbre she hadn't heard in forever but immediately remembered. I haven't really tested the range, and that doesn't particularly matter to me. It will live near the chair I usually sit in, connected to a cool old phone, and if I'm nearby when I get a call on my cell that sucker will ring. That sounds pretty awesome to me. It's possible (and in theory, pretty easy) to hook this up to your house's phone wiring so that it will work with any phone you have plugged into a wall jack. I haven't tried this, because I need to keep a standard land line coming in for DSL, and it doesn't seem like it would work very well in practice. The Xlink unit needs to be fairly close to the cell phone to stay paired (it's just bluetooth, after all) so if you carry your cell phone from room to room like many people do, you'll break the link. I suppose you could set your cellphone down nearby the Xlink when you come home and then use your "land lines" as you move about the house, but that's not what I'm after at all. I've heard that cell carriers block fax signals somehow, but I'm definitely going to try this with a modem when I get the chance. Just for fun. Bottom line, I'm not sure just how well this gadget will work for wiring all phone lines in a home to a cell phone, but for my purposes (being able to use cool old phones) I couldn't be happier.

After 30 years with our land line, and same phone number, we decided to go with a cell phone. But who wants to carry your cell phone in your pocket at home, or while you are out in your yard so that you don't miss an important call? My main concern was when I took my iPhone 5 that I recently bought through T-Mobile, and no land line, what would my husband do if he needed to make an emergency call. He does not like to figure out which buttons to push with our older pay as you go LG phone from T-Mobile and that is where this device comes in. Before buying this, I did my research as usual to see what was out on the market, I called the owner of Xtreme Technologies to ask him about his device and using with my new iPhone 5. He said that he uses it with his iPhone 5 and it works great. There are two models, both will program up to three cell phones with bluetooth, the price is about $15.00 more for the one that I bought with a land line port (BTTN), in case I ever wanted to have a land line again. I received it, and it took me under an hour to set it up. I still had my land line number and hooked it up to this device so that I could check it out before calling our carrier to stop our service. I found that when my iPhone 5, or my older LG phone rang, all of the cordless phones would ring and we could pick up any phone and answer the call. Out going calls from our cordless phone was easy to make, you just had to follow the instructions to select what cell phone you wanted to call out on. After hooking this up, again I was researching another device called the Obihai 100 along with their other models so that I could set up free Google Voice over the internet. I am glad that I got the BTTN with the land line port, because now I have the OBi 100 installed with Google Voice, and it works great, bought both at Amazon. In fact, the volume, and clarity with the OBi 100, and Google Voice is much better than my old land line carrier. Now when my husband wants to make a call out, he can pick up any cordless phone, dial out the ten digit number using Google Voice and the call goes through. It takes awhile to get used to the new way to make a call after so many years with the land line, but it is worth it. Now when I take my iPhone 5 with me, he has the option of Google Voice, or the older LG pay as you go phone that I will keep as a backup. With the Obi100, I have signed up for Anveo for our E911 emergency number and address for a fee of $12.00 a year for up to five 911 calls, after that you have to sign up again and pay another $12.00 for the year, but who makes more than five 911 calls in a year. The above combination works so well that I have been telling my friends, and family along with T-Mobile representatives that want the freedom to answer calls with a corded or cordless phone when at home.

Il y a longtemps que je cherchais ce produit. Attention aux normes, il est américain : prise secteur nécessite un adaptateur. Tension du courant d'appel incompatible avec certains équipements français, nécessite un artifice pour recevoir un appel dans ce cas. Une fois cela réglé, c'est parfait sauf le prix qui est presque doublé entre la France et les USA !!!

I got rid of the landline years ago and this just brought it right back in for free. Well technically just using my phone over Bluetooth, but same thing. Make landline phones great again! Easy to install and setup. Now I can use the landline phones. Caller ID shows based on how it is set on the Cellphone/Smartphone for incoming calls. For example if John Smith is the name of 000-555-1212 John Smith will show on the first line. 000-555-1212 will show on the digits line. Calls that come in that are not in the Contacts of your phone will show XLINK as the name with the number depending on the phone. Hiya (If used) may forward this information over Bluetooth to the gateway which will send it over as Caller ID. Depends on the phone. I chose to disable XLINK as the name in the software for the device and found a calling from a number not in contacts said: Unknown Name 000.555.1212 You can disable the default XLINK name if desired in the software. You can also configure it to your liking with different ring patterns based on the Bluetooth phone connected on any of the 3 spots. I at first liked it but I can't see it being necessary. Private Callers won't display any information. All mine said was incoming call. But I turned off that option in the settings on my phone so it declines them automatically because if it was really important you'd show your number. It's nice to control calls from the phone. I have AT&T call protect installed on my phone's and unlike landline service, they don't ring for "Your cars extended warranty" because that crap is blocked on the phone before any of them ring. This works flawlessly with my Samsung A50 Pickup and dial-away. It just works. Heck even my grandmother could use her old legacy phone and she wouldn't know the difference. I wouldn't have doubts the model 500 phones would work.

Simple and Effective. Works well with my three Samsung phones. It doesn't have the greatest range, a little better than the range indicated on the box (3 meters) so I can't knock it. I found it will work in a 20 foot range fairly well. Hardly a deal breaker as I put the charger next to the device so a non-issue for me. I like the buttons on top as you can turn off the bluetooth if you want to use a bluetooth headset at home for example. Call quality is pretty good and all calls go the answering machine - I guess this is both good and bad. All in, considering how basic and simple set up is (can you press and hold the button on top?) and call quality, it gets two thumbs up.

I almost returned this unit the first week I was having so many little technical issues with it. But once I figured out the right settings and that some of the problems were being caused by my phone, the device worked amazingly well! Tech support is limited, but they did make an effort to help me out with one issue. Once i had this working i was quite pleased - when my cell phone rang, all the phones in my house would ring and i could answer it without running down to my home office. After a few months though, I notice the unit was interfering with the voicemail indicator on my landline and it would not show that I had a message. I'd have to listen for a stutter tone. As of the writing of this review, it is still not resolved, but this may not be a big issue for some.

English: I got one in March 2015 and it was working so great that I finally dropped my landline in April 2015. I was using 1 cell with it. But in July 2015, I moved from a house(living downstairs with a poor cell signal but was it working since the cell was not moving) to a new apartment(second floor with better cell signal). The Xlink BTTN gave me all sorts of problems (dropped calls, weird feedback sound, hearing people only....). Thinking it was the Xlink, I got a Panasonic full system(4 handset) that does the same as the Xlink but at 3 times the price. This did not work either on the first hour. I had to return it too. I even tried turning off my Wi-Fi, another cell from a friend, moved in each room, change powerbar (good ones), update firmware... .. I did try everything I could control and think of. I even contact the support(great) At the old place, I had about the same Wi-FI rooter around. Our conclusion is that while the Xlink and other similar device are great to have, you may have too many interference in your building to be able to use them. I got landline...again. 3/5 because were you live will determine if it works or not. Otherwise 4/5 when it was working. But try things. Français: J'en ai eu un en Mars 2015 et cela fonctionnait si bien que j'ai finalement laissé tomber mon téléphone fixe en Avril 2015. Je me servais d'un cell avec le Xlink. Mais en Juillet 2015, je suis passé d'une maison (sous-sol avec un signal cellulaire médiocre mais fonctionnait car le cell ne se bougait pas) dans un nouvel appartement (deuxième étage avec un meilleur signal de cellulaire). Le XLink BTTN m'a donné toutes sortes de problèmes (appels coupé, son de feedback bizarre, entendre les gens seulement ....). Pensant que c'était le XLink, je me suis procuré un système complet Panasonic (4 combiné) qui fait le même chose que le XLink mais à 3 fois le prix. Cela n'a pas fonctionné non plus à sa première heure. Je suis aller le retourner aussi. J'ai même essayé d'éteindre mon Wi-Fi, une autre cellulaire d'un ami, le déménagé dans chaque prièce, changer le powerBar (des bons), mise à jour firmware ... .. j'ai essayé ce que je pouvais contrôler et pensé. J'ai même contacter le support (bon), A l'ancien lieu, je devais avoir environ le même nombres de routers Wi-FI autour. Notre conclusion est que, bien que XLink et un autre dispositif similaire sont super d'avoir, vous pouvez avoir un trop grand nombre interférence dans votre bâtiment pour être en mesure de les utiliser. Je suis avec une ligne terrestre ... à nouveau. 3/5 étaient parce que où vous vivez permettra de déterminer si cela fonctionnera ou pas. Sinon 4/5 quand il fonctionne. Mais essayer des choses.