<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Hey guys. I need to set up a IP Phone lab in my home to test on.<br />
<br />
What is the CHEAPEST way to do this? Right now the only thing I have that is even remotely IP phone related is a cisco MC3810 with a DVMT1 module. <br />
<br />
i'm also a student, so cheaper is better! I will get stuff off of ebay I'm just not sure all what i need to get.<br />
<br />
I don't really care right now if the phones hook up to my main house line, I just want two IP phones that can call EACH OTHER for now.<br />
<br />
thanks!
</div>
</div>


Hey guys. I need to set up a IP Phone lab in my home to test on.

What is the CHEAPEST way to do this? Right now the only thing I have that is even remotely IP phone related is a cisco MC3810 with a DVMT1 module. 

i'm also a student, so cheaper is better! I will get stuff off of ebay I'm just not sure all what i need to get.

I don't really care right now if the phones hook up to my main house line, I just want two IP phones that can call EACH OTHER for now.

thanks!

Cheapest way to set up a VoIP Cisco IP Phone lab?

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

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).