Network combining wired and non-wired segments

A device for coupling a wired digital data signal to a wireless data unit in a building, for use with a telephone wiring at least in part outside of the building and point-to-point connected to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and comprising one or two telephone wire pairs, the telephone wiring carrying the wired digital data, said device comprising:

• a telephone connector for connecting to the telephone wiring;
• a telephone transceiver coupled to said telephone connector and operative for full-duplex point-to-point digital data communication of the wired digital data signal using a wired digital data protocol over the telephone wiring with a mating telephone transceiver of the same type;
• a radio frequency modem operative for conducting standard-based bi-directional packet-based digital data communication of a wireless digital data signal using a wireless digital data protocol;
• a packet-based digital protocol adapter consisting of one of a bridge, a router and a gateway, coupled between said telephone transceiver and said radio-frequency modem for converting data between the wireless digital data protocol and the wired digital data protocol;
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• a single enclosure containing said telephone connector, said high pass filter, said telephone transceiver, said radio frequency modem and said protocol adapter.