There are 2 sets of telephone numbers. The first are numbers directly associated with me. This will all end in (my-number) as the last 7 digits, and the first 3 digits will determine the role that the number will serve. With that in mind, I will focus on the house phone lines with regards to this page. If you wish to learn more about my Ideal Phone System, you can.
For the house, each family member will have access to a Grandstream WP815, and possibly a dedicated telephone number. If the family member is too immature to have their own telephone number, then their number will ring the main house line, and not their personal extension. I will use 1 SIP provider, and that SIP provider supports extensions which will be very useful in this system. There will likely be a dozen extensions to service all of the roles and duties of the house, and family.
The family members will not get the same consolidation of telephone numbers that I would have. In turn, the number is tied to the residence, and not so much the person. If a member leaves the family, they will have to leave their home phone number behind as well. This may sound like a lot of effort, but each number will cost $6/month, and will be added to the main bill. There is a residence fax line, so if someone in the family needs to send or receive a fax, they can use the one in the library. If a member of the family is too immature to have their own telephone number, then calls to that number will ring to the house’s phone line, and therefore act as a forwarder to the home line. Therefore, it is not in someone’s best interest to provide the phone number until they know that the number is for their use.
Since every phone has its own extension, one could simply dial the extension number, and ring the phone without having to remember a telephone number. For example, to ring my home phone, someone in the residence will dial 101. This will be intended to keep things simple, and hopefully easier to remember. In SIP calling does not count against the minutes of the home phone plan even though these lines have unlimited calling.
As for the house’s fax line, there will be an ink-tank printer (likely an Epson) which will support faxes as well as handling the prints, colors, and scans. There will be an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) that would plug into the fax, and from there – plug into an ethernet jack. The printer that would be used for this service will be the Epson ET-15000. There is a 250 sheet paper tray, and auto-duplex printing is supported. I will assume the fax only supports 14.4kbps faxing even though I heard of 56.6kbps fax machines.