Setup Obi110 with OOMA
RonR:
Quote from: makitso on March 25, 2012, 07:04:28 am
BTW, could this change [ ([2-9]11S0|[2-9]xxxxxxxxx) ] have been made through the Obi portal instead? I assume that would be a preferred method?
Yes, but I find it much quicker and simpler to configure the OBi directly. The OBiTALK Web Portal would not provide any advantage in this case and would have been a more involved process.
makitso:
OK, many thanks. I started with Vonage in 2006, switched to Ooma in 2012. OBi is lightyears ahead of those technologies. :)
MichiganTelephone:
Don't be easily talked out of using the OBiTALK portal by someone else, just because they prefer not to use it. There are many advantages to using the OBiTALK portal, especially if you ever find that you need to make a configuration change to your OBi device while you are not at home (or wherever your device is physically located). Also, in my opinion it's a lot easier to set up Service Provider settings for supported VoIP providers using the portal, since it might catch some of the additional settings you wouldn't know about unless you scoured this forum looking for threads on that specific provider. I'm not suggesting that someone should not configure their device manually if that's what they really want to do, and know what they are giving up by not using the portal, but I do think that one should not do it just because someone else on a forum prefers to do it that way on their devices.
makitso:
OK, I have about 1 month experience with my Ooma/Obi configuration -- Ooma phone port connected to line port on the Obi, all phones in the home connected to the Ooma. Google voice set to ring both Ooma number and cell number. I use the **1 Obi google voice number for outbound 877 conference calls.
- Had about 3 dropped calls this month.
- Voice clarity and delay are noticeably better on the Obi number than the Ooma number.
- Inbound google voice calls would ring Ooma and cell. But when the Ooma line picked up could not hear caller. Reset Obi and this problem went away.
- Inbound calls placed to the google voice # do not come through when I am on the Obi number -- just rings.
My expectations were to be able to have a second line for outbound calls. But when on an Obi call (**1) my wife use the Oooma number. But, when she picks up the phone she can near me. I am sure my configuration is not right.
So, I probably need to separate the Ooma and Obi into two separate systems, both connected to the router and then have my office phone with two separate physical lines,one to the Obi and one to OOma.
Am I missing something?
PS: MichiganTelephone - I don't switch solution easily. One of the guys in our computer club was trying it Obi about 3 months ago. Since I had Ooma and it was working well, I passed it buy. But, when my OOma box failed after 20 months and then I was faced with a $180 hardware purchase I looked again. However, wife wanted her existing line (non-transferrable) so I got the Obi for a second line for my office.
jimates:
Although the Obi supports several different configurations for many providers, it only supports one call session at a time from the phone port.
If you split the line from the Ooma to the Obi you could then use the Obi phone port for a call on one of the Obi's SP services, and at the same time use the Ooma from one of the phones connected to it ahead of the Obi.
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