Obi202 with RingTo and Google Voice - How to set GV Voicemail Indicator?
SteveInWA:
I just helped my retired buddy flee Comcast and set up an OBi. His wife is British, and she calls her Mum in the UK every weekend for an hour, so this is saving them big bucks over the outrageous fees from Comcast. They don't mind the extra steps needed to use GV voicemail (have GV send a VM notification text message to your mobile phone, or send an email to you with the VM).
If that's a bother for you, and you want inbound Caller ID name, then the simplest thing to do is to shop and compare the features and prices between some independent VoIP Internet Telephone Service Providers (ITSPs), pick the one you like, and then use the OBiTALK portal to set it up. It's easy.
There are lots of ITSPs from which to choose, ranging from dirt cheap with crappy customer support and sporadic outages, to quite costly, with lots of hand-holding customer care. Most of us here on the forum are happy with, in alphabetic order, Callcentric, PhonePower, or voip.ms. These three are at the "sweet spot" of value and quality.
Looking at their pricing, keep in mind that some ITSPs price inbound calling and outbound calling separately (a la carte), for maximum flexibility. Look at your historical calling patterns (number of outbound or inbound calling minute usage per month), then pick the plans that meet your needs. You can always change plans later if needed. These ITSPs support inbound caller ID name, E-911 service, and you can either use their voicemail system or not, as you wish.
BGood:
Excellent suggestions. Thanks, SteveInWA.
I am going through my inventory of legacy telephony devices from the basement to populate the in-house phones. These include 2.6ghz cordless systems from Cygnion and Panasonic and various hardwired phones as well. Right now my house looks like a phone museum, or the telephony equivalent of a used car lot.
I may just toss out all the old hardware and buy some newer 5.8ghz cordless phones to minimize the number of hardwired phones to ease the load on the Obi.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: BGood on December 14, 2015, 07:00:16 am
Excellent suggestions. Thanks, SteveInWA.
I am going through my inventory of legacy telephony devices from the basement to populate the in-house phones. These include 2.6ghz cordless systems from Cygnion and Panasonic and various hardwired phones as well. Right now my house looks like a phone museum, or the telephony equivalent of a used car lot.
I may just toss out all the old hardware and buy some newer 5.8ghz cordless phones to minimize the number of hardwired phones to ease the load on the Obi.
You know, there's treatment available for compulsive hoarder syndrome :P :P :P
2.4GHz phones have been obsolete for a good 15 years, and 5.8GHz for probably 10 years.
Seriously, take out the ancient NiCD toxic waste battery packs and recycle them, throw the rest of the stuff in the trash, and treat yourself to a nice new DECT 6.0 (1.9GHz) cordless phone system from Panasonic. They're much more secure, use a radio band exclusively reserved for cordless telephony, have long range, use easily-replaceable AAA NiMH batteries, and are available with as many handsets as you need. Save a few bucks and buy a model without a built-in answering machine.
For example: http://shop.panasonic.com/home-and-office/cordless-corded-telephones/cordless-telephones?srule=featured
BGood:
Quote from: SteveInWA on December 14, 2015, 07:28:37 am
You know, there's treatment available for compulsive hoarder syndrome. 2.4GHz phones have been obsolete for a good 15 years, and 5.8GHz for probably 10 years.
I resemble that remark! :)
No I did not know, and thanks for the heads-up. :)
I do like recycling, but hate throwing out things that work (like my Commodore 64 and Kaypro 10).
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