Short version: A GV line registered on my OBi202 picks us with a fax tone after 2 rings ... with no fax machine (or any other fax service) connected? Not sure what is prompting this pick up? When I remove the line from my OBi202, it goes back to the standard GV voicemail greeting, picking up after about 4 rings (normal behavior). So I think something about the OBi202 is causing this fax tone "pick up"? Thoughts?
More detail:
I have several GV lines/numbers, two of which I have registered on my OBi202. One of them, once upon a time, was an AT&T POTS line, which I moved all the way over to GV. I had previously used this line with my fax machine (while a POTS line), and didn't use it much, so I found moving in to GV saved me the cost of the line, while letting me keep the number.
Anyway, I registered this GV line/account with my OBi202, and, after a while, I realized that the multi-function printer on my desk has a fax capability ... so I wondered if I could hook up this MFP to the OBi202 and send/receive faxes periodically. Tested that out, and it worked just fine with a 1-2 page fax. I didn't do more testing, and disconnected the cable between the MFP and OBi202, to prevent spammers from delivering junk faxes (as they had in the past with my old POTS fax machine). Seems good, right? I can just add the cable connection back whenever I want to reenable the fax capability, right?
Well, almost. Seems like, for some reason, all of that (maybe) tipped off my OBi202 that I may be using that GV line for faxing, and now it is trying to answer those fax calls itself, and sending them to ... I don't know where. Does anyone have any thoughts on what the OBi202 is trying to do here? I have deregistered and registered the GV line on the device several times, so the behavior is repeatable.