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Depends on the system. &nbsp;Most home systems use a box like this:<br />
<a href="http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/180/186/" rel="ugc">http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/180/186/</a><br />
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The above is what I have with Vonage. &nbsp;You connect it to your router, then you plug in any NORMAL phone into the box. &nbsp; Works great - been using mine for almost 3 years.
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Depends on the system.  Most home systems use a box like this:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/180/186/ [http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/as/180/186/]

The above is what I have with Vonage.  You connect it to your router, then you plug in any NORMAL phone into the box.   Works great - been using mine for almost 3 years.

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Checking out VoIP modems yesterday, and it said &quot;plug in your phone to the back of the modem&quot;.....I was under the impression that you had a specail VoIP phone as well, that you can't just plug your regular old phone into it, correct? &nbsp;
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Checking out VoIP modems yesterday, and it said "plug in your phone to the back of the modem".....I was under the impression that you had a specail VoIP phone as well, that you can't just plug your regular old phone into it, correct?  

Newbie VoIP question

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, broadband telephony, and broadband phone service. The term specifically refers to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the public Internet, rather than via the public switched telephone network (PSTN).  Examples of the VoIP protocols are H.323, Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.248 (also known as Media Gateway Control (Megaco)), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP), Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP), Session Description Protocol (SDP), and Inter-Asterisk eXchange (IAX).