Dedicated VOIP handset
AndyQ:
Quote from: Ostracus on April 18, 2012, 05:02:35 pm
Hard to read the image but it looks like the page were you fill in your VOIP provider information.
Sorry about the image size, I scaled it so it would fit on the page and perhaps I overdid it!
Yes, this is the page where I fill in the VOIP provider info. But what I want to do is to use the OBi as a VOIP bridge, so it can relay to the OBi's landline (or to the VOIP services configured into the OBi).
So I guess the OBi is my IP-Phone's VOIP provider, so that gives the IP address (is it a proxy server rather than a SIP server????) and port 5060 is mentioned in the OBi setup pages. The OBi config has a "User Login" button and a "User Settings" menu item (which is what I guess I need to put in the boxes in the phone config) but I can't find how to create a user. And what is the difference between "Register Name" and "User Name"?
Stewart, earlier in the thread, says the Polycom configuration is difficult. Any information about what he had to do would be extremely useful.
Andy
AndyQ:
I notice the IP phone endpoint thread seemed to be asking the same question, but not be coming to an answer.
Am I right in thinking that the Cisco 7960 SIP phone with OBI110 thread and the Single-Stage Dialing Through Any OBi Trunk Using SIP threads may give some clues to what I need to do?
Andy
TimDan:
Quote from: AndyQ on April 14, 2012, 05:16:37 pm
... one of the unintentional things the OBI is doing is to isolate my BT master socket from the internal wiring whenever the landline is not use.
BT = British Telecom?
master socket = wall outlet?
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One option I have is to fix the internal wiring, another is to go DECT-only, ...
DECT = Digital Enhanced (or European) Cordless Telecommunications, i.e. cordless phone?
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The standalone VOIP phones I can see on Amazon are CISCO, are PoE-based, ...
PoE = Power-over-Ethernet?
Sorry, I'm a newbie, and those terms were snags for me for awhile. Just thought I'd get them
cleared up for the other newbies.
*TimDan*
TimDan:
Quote from: Stewart on April 14, 2012, 10:13:25 pm
If you connect an ADSL filter between the wall jack and the OBi Line port (or between the wall jack and an analogue phone), it will probably fix your broadband speed issue.
OK, now I get it - AndyQ has ADSL for his broadband Internet service, and he therefore can't disconnect his in-wall analog wiring from the telecom carrier's service box because it carries the ADSL signal to his ADSL modem. Considering the expense, though, of equipping the entire house with IP phones and AndyQ's desire to keep the IP aspect entirely transparent, wouldn't it be an option to just bring a dedicated phone line to the ADSL modem from the service box and to disconnect the service box from the house in-wall wiring, thereby allowing him to use all the existing analog phones just as his family has up to now?
*TimDan*
TimDan:
Quote from: AndyQ on April 18, 2012, 03:43:02 pm
Well the IP Phone has arrived, and after much reading of manuals and scratching of head I have come to the conclusion that I haven't a clue what I'm doing! I don't even know if I'm meant to be configuring the OBi to be aware of the phone, or the phone to be aware of the OBi... (I suspect a bit of both)
The phone config page has the following tab (the other tabs are just standard info). The (?) buttons are no help! If anyone has any idea where I should start then I'd be grateful for a few clues.
Thanks for the warning! I had been considering doing the Yealink thing myself with SIP service providers such as CallCentric, or VOIPO, etc,, but I figured I'd get into VoIP in stages. Since staying with existing analog phones throughout the house would require only running a dedicated line in from the carrier's service box to your ADSL modem and disconnecting your house analog phone wiring from the service box, why didn't you just do that?
*TimDan*
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