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[bananaman]

According to it's product page, the DPH-50U Skype™ USB Phone Adapter "Works with DIR-655".

So if you plug the DPH-50U into the DIR-655 USB port, you can disconnect your phone company, and have Skype for your whole house! With no computer involved!

How do I configure it though?

Has anyone done this yet?

[twk3]

The DPH-50 is designed for one phone, not really all the phones in the house, but if you have it installed where you line box is, i suppose you could easily connect it to all the phones.

I don't believe this works quite as nicely as you would think with the DIR-655.

I could be wrong, but you still need one computer running with skype installed, that computer would also need the shareport utility.

Once the the DPH-50 was connected to the DIR-655, you can probably see the device using the shareport utility, before you connect to it, you would also need to install the DPH-50 software on the computer.


Pretty much, the DIR-655 would be acting as a usb hub for your computer for using the DPH-50. You would still need that computer to control the skype calls.

I could be wrong, as in my own place I use a wireless skype phone on my DIR-655, and do not have the setup you are checking out.

[bananaman]

I think you are probably right twk3 and that the DIR-655 would be acting as nothing more than an extra USB port for the computer you need to manage the Skype calls.

There is zero official D-Link information about how the DPH-50 actually works with the DIR-655 though. It just says "Works with DIR-655".

The DPH-50 is currently available from D-Link for $15 each, if you buy a pair! Maybe I'll buy a couple when I get home next, so I can discover what "Works with DIR-655" really means!

[funchords]

I think you are probably right twk3 and that the DIR-655 would be acting as nothing more than an extra USB port for the computer you need to manage the Skype calls.

There is zero official D-Link information about how the DPH-50 actually works with the DIR-655 though. It just says "Works with DIR-655".

The DPH-50 is currently available from D-Link for $15 each, if you buy a pair! Maybe I'll buy a couple when I get home next, so I can discover what "Works with DIR-655" really means!

Someone ought to forward this message to D-Link Marketing so they can see what their web site suggests to customers. 

I have one of these that was whiteboxed by USR.  This won't work with the USB port in the DIR-655 in any special way.  This device requires the Skype software and a running host computer and you configure this device to work with the Skype software (it's a security authorization).  It's a little quirky but also kinda cool.  It has two telephone connections -- one to your wall and one to a phone device (e.g. a phone or a base station of a cordless phone set).  Then, using that connected phone, you can originate or answer either Skype or plain-old telephone system calls (to originate Skype calls, you dial a quick prefix).

Skype works with the DIR-655, as it does with probably any SOHO router, especially if UPNP is turned on but even if it is not.  Consider that little "Works with..." box the D-Link equivalent of, "Do you want fries with that?"