I have a small farm just south of Johannesburg. I need internet plus voice line. The cell phone reception is dead unless you have and old phone with ext aerial plug which the goes into a Yargi which is 10m in the air and you get two bars. I got Telkom to install two telephone lines 2 km long and when the service was ready it was party lines no fax and always out of order (10 weeks). I then found a device on the internet made in RSA called a Faxim which takes the sim card and has phone line outlet (desktop) and serial plug for the modem. This works well but the cell phone signal is strong somedays and very weak others so you lose calls. When you are on the internet the phone is unavailable. Please is there not another product on the market that can perhaps take two sim cards or satelite phone please any ideas would be welcomed. I was looking for a pabx that worked on gsm network that would be the answer. I would love adsl but at the moment gprs is all I got. (faxim is only gprs and does not show what happens to sms)
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[OUPA]MrNutz
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telkom spacestream office maybe? it is $$$ but it works
express wont work
express wont work
Rocket-Boy
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You can use a Yagi on any cellphone, there are generic adapters that will allow it to be clipped on to the handset. Why not get a second Yagi and try with that? remember a Yagi is a directional antenna and so needs to be pointed to the strongest signal point.
I would recommend pointing and testing signal in 2 min incriments as it takes a while for signal to become stable.
That would be alot easier than trying to get a cellular PABX.
What would have been easier than the faxing solution you have would be a premicell or equivalent unit which is designed fo ruse with external antennae and hs a voice and analogue fax option aswell as two yagi connector points.
I would recommend pointing and testing signal in 2 min incriments as it takes a while for signal to become stable.
That would be alot easier than trying to get a cellular PABX.
What would have been easier than the faxing solution you have would be a premicell or equivalent unit which is designed fo ruse with external antennae and hs a voice and analogue fax option aswell as two yagi connector points.
kevinswan007
Expert Member
just move! 
+1 agree , best solution ... as long as you have line of sight from their transmitter ... NO TREES in the way !
Some VOIP providers will have a range of numbers available .. eg. 011.. , 021.. , 031.. etc. Does not have to be 08.. number.