Have you ever had a lump in your throat by just looking at your extremely high house phone bill? Do you just hate it when people ask if they can use your phone? Do you get really irritated when your daughter is on the phone all afternoon and evening, just imagining what it's going to do to your budgeting plans? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then its time you changed to a voip adsl phone. If you want to learn more keep reading.

Voice over Internet Protocol or VOIP has been around for some time now, they have traditionally been software that can be installed on your computer and can be used to make calls to other phones. Today however with the use of ADSL or Asynchronous Digital subscriber line, routers these have become easier to use.

A re-invention of the telephone, VOIP has been possible only due to popularity of the Internet and computers. If your local service provider does not offer VOIP services soon, you shouldn't be surprised to find it going out of business in a few years. The only difference in a VOIP phone and a conventional house phone is the requirement of an Internet connection with an ADSL router and the fall in your phone bill. The new generation VOIP phones look exactly like a conventional house phone and plug in directly to your router, no need for the computer to be kept on, neither is it necessary to have a one.

Another form of VOIP phone is where your computer works as a dialer and you need to have a headphone and a mic to be able to talk. It is usually a software that converts your computer into a phone.

The software VOIP phones also allow computer to computer calls using which you can completely bypass any charges for the call. It only requires an INTERNET connection which is used to connect the 2 computers. An very significant requirement of a VOIP phone is a high speed Internet connection, else the voice quality is very bad and in some cases impossible to make and take calls.

Here is how a VOIP phone works. When you speak into a phone, the Voice is converted into a digital signal by the phone's software, after that the digital signals are transferred to the ADSL router, which converts the signals into data packets, these data packets are then transferred over the Internet and sent to the other phone might be digital or analogue.

If the phone on the other end is a digital phone then the data is converted to digital signals which are decoded by the phone and can be heard as voice, However if it is an analogue phone the digital signal is further converted into an analogue signal which the phone can convert to voice.

The popularity of VOIP ADSL PHONE has increased over the past few years and this has also made the technology very cheap. Compared to a few years back when VOIP phone were mostly used only in businesses, today these are available for everyone and can be bought off the shelves at many electronic stores. A great way to save money, while staying in touch with your family members and close friends without the fear of running up huge phone bills.