Hi guys,

I've been thinking of making the big jump from Telecom landline/Xtra ADSL to naked DSL with a ported VoIP number. I'm currently using one of Xtra's Thomson TG585 wireless routers that they gave out free a few years back.

From what I've been sifting over in this forum I understand that it is possible to combine any naked DSL provider (I was thinking of NZNET) with any VoIP provider (2talk's 10$ line sounds perfect) however this requires certain hardware, either a(n):

1 ATA which connects between any router and the ph jack and allows normal phones to be connected  to it?

2 New router with an ATA effectively 'built in'

3 Special phone that connects somehow to the router? ethernet?

Am I understanding these methods correctly?

I also have a DSL splitter installed on one of the 3 ph jacks I have - I'm guessing naked DSL would render the other "phone only" jacks useless? What options would allow the 2 phones in the other rooms to transfer to voip (wireless)?

If you could recommend some user-friendly VoIP hardware, link me to some info and/or let me know if I'm just plain wrong about any of this I'd really appreciate the feedback