IP phone endpoint
TimDan:
Quote from: RonR on January 13, 2012, 01:51:04 pm
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 01:43:04 pm
OK, the IP phone would connect directly to a port on the router and speak SIP with the VoIP service, and it wouldn't connect at all to the Obi device (e.g. OBi110). This would add a 2nd phone that could be used concurrently with the analog one connected to the OBi110.
That's it.
Quote from: TimDan on January 13, 2012, 01:43:04 pm
I'm still puzzled, though, by your previous statement:
"Connecting an IP phone or analog phone + ATA to an OBi is a means of overcoming the limitation of the OBi only supporting one single-line telephone."
An OBi only has one PHONE Port jack on the back. You can only connect a single-line telephone to it.
What's the mystery? :)
The implied problem you posed was "How to connect a 2nd phone line to an OBi110 when a phone is already connected to the PHONE port of the OBi."
The solution you present most recently is to either "Connect an IP phone to the router" or "Connect a phone/ATA pair to the router".
But your originally stated solution (see above) was to either "Connect an IP phone to the OBi" or "Connect a phone/ATA pair to the OBi".
Maybe you meant either "Connect an IP phone to the 2nd ethernet port of an OBi202" or "Connect a phone/ATA pair to the 2nd ethernet port of an OBi202"?
TimDan
Stewart:
A SIP IP phone (or an analog phone + a SIP ATA) can be connected to your LAN, e.g. to an available port on your router. It could access SIP services (Callcentric, VoIP.ms, many others) directly and wouldn't need the OBi at all. However, you can also configure the system so the OBi acts as a VoIP bridge, making its services available to the IP phone. IP phones cannot directly access Google Voice or OBiTALK, so using the OBi to relay calls is useful. Most IP phones cannot connect directly to a landline; an OBi would allow use with landline calls.
I hope that the above is sufficiently clear. If not, please describe your proposed setup in detail.
TimDan:
Quote from: Stewart on January 14, 2012, 12:10:21 am
A SIP IP phone (or an analog phone + a SIP ATA) can be connected to your LAN, e.g. to an available port on your router. It could access SIP services (Callcentric, VoIP.ms, many others) directly and wouldn't need the OBi at all. However, you can also configure the system so the OBi acts as a VoIP bridge, making its services available to the IP phone. IP phones cannot directly access Google Voice or OBiTALK, so using the OBi to relay calls is useful. Most IP phones cannot connect directly to a landline; an OBi would allow use with landline calls.
I hope that the above is sufficiently clear. If not, please describe your proposed setup in detail.
OK, that clears it up. In regards to adding a 2nd analog phone/ATA pair, I had interpreted RonR's phrase "configured with the Obi" to mean "connected to the Obi".
Right now, I have no proposed setup, but my goal is to drastically drop my phone bill and to try out a few VoIP services to see which one - or combination of ones - will give me sufficient reliability and low cost for outgoing calls while maintaining one landline (which I've switched to Measured Rate service at your suggestion) for 911/incoming calls/FAX/immunity to local power outages. For the duration of 2012, of course, Google Voice will give the lowest monthly service cost (i.e. zero), but I want to test its service as well as a couple others (2 services at a time) in preparation for the transition of Google Voice to a paid service. I'm also holding up my purchase of an Obi device to see what functionality the OBi202 provides. (I once had 3 concurrent internet services, so this experimentation and concern about backup is typical of me.)
TimDan
BobTeatow:
Yeah, that would be nice - then I could have used one OBI device and re-used my old Sipura adapters.
But seems that part of OBIhai's business plan is to sell one OBI device per phone 8)
Indeed, I bought a second OBi device ...
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