What would be a typical usage scenario for a Voice Gateway?
randomLettersandNumbers:
Quote from: wintek on March 16, 2011, 04:30:22 pm
Here is a scenario which I use:
I have an account with Voip.ms where I have three DIDs. One is my home number for family & friends; one is my wife’s pseudo business. She’s a home health nurse, and one I use for business. Voip.ms allows you to create sub-accounts with their own long on credentials and also allow you to set the outgoing Caller-ID on each account. When we call family and friends our home CID is presented. When my wife calls her patients from our home phone the call goes out her CID. This is important because when patients get her number they call her for every little thing. So instead of they getting our home number (which they have in the past) they get her CID which can be presented with a distinctive ring and /or redirected to voice mail giving instructions to call the home office or 911 if emergency. Similar situation on mine. So being able to select the outgoing gateway allows us to use the home phone for business, but not having to react to incoming business calls.
On Voip.ms sub-accounts you can also track calls & expenses of which we write-0ff every year on our income taxes.
How is this structured with voip.ms?
Main Account: Personal Phone number
1st----sub -- wife business
2nd---sub -- wintek--business
Maybe something like that. Do you have to use a IP based phone for these distinctive rings and CID changes?
This is exactly what I'm looking to do with the obitalk device. Google voice is killing me with the best effort voice network.
QBZappy:
No ip phone necessary. Regular phone attached to the OBi will do the job. Calls between sub accts are free. CID number can be unique for each acct/sub acct. Lots of other features, too numerous to mention them all. Check out their web site for more info. Two major features are missing on the regular DID number they offer. Incoming fax doesn't work on the regular DID number for me, and CID requires a very small database look up fee (USA users might need this service). CID is handled differently in Canada vs the US. The CID info is normally passed with the call. I don't pay for the database look up and I still get CID info. They sell a premium DID service which I think handles incoming faxes.
CID number and name can be spoofed using their service. Meaning that you can have any CID name and number show up on the outgoing call. Good feature to have for a DID with sub accts.
randomLettersandNumbers:
Quote from: QBZappy on August 16, 2011, 06:49:05 pm
No ip phone necessary. Regular phone attached to the OBi will do the job. Calls between sub accts are free. CID number can be unique for each acct/sub acct. Lots of other features, too numerous to mention them all.
CID number and name can be spoofed using their service. Meaning that you can have any CID name and number show up on the outgoing call. Good feature to have for a DID with sub accts.
The custom rings -- is that something your configure on the Obihai? I saw section for ringtones but I didn't see a method of how to listen to them. Just numbered 1 through whatever.
I was looking at the config page for the obi -- http://wiki.voip.ms/article/OBi110
Can you guys provide more information on how to get multiple linkes setup on the obi under the profiles. How do you access them and what are good outbound / inbound rules that should be place.
Finally, Have you guys had to add any firewall rules or QOS rules in your home router to help get the sip traffic to the obi faster versus haveing your streaming video, torrents, games or whatever getting priority traffic first?
QBZappy:
Quote from: randomLettersandNumbers on August 16, 2011, 07:14:57 pm
The custom rings -- is that something your configure on the Obihai? I saw section for ringtones but I didn't see a method of how to listen to them. Just numbered 1 through whatever.
Trial and error method. Once you have an acct setup you will have to call yourself and change the setting to a ring that you like.
Quote from: randomLettersandNumbers on August 16, 2011, 07:14:57 pm
I was looking at the config page for the obi -- http://wiki.voip.ms/article/OBi110
Can you guys provide more information on how to get multiple linkes setup on the obi under the profiles. How do you access them and what are good outbound / inbound rules that should be place.
Once you get an acct with voip.ms, the sub acct is set up on their web portal. The sub acct is a variation of the main acct name that you can choose for yourself.
Remember that the OBi has 2 slots for setting up sip accts. If you need more sub accts you may need to setup using the OBi gateway. Setting up using an OBi gateway is slightly different. I'm not certain that voip.ms can be setp that way since I do not use the gateways. RonR can probably confirm that.
Quote from: randomLettersandNumbers on August 16, 2011, 07:14:57 pm
Finally, Have you guys had to add any firewall rules or QOS rules in your home router to help get the sip traffic to the obi faster versus haveing your streaming video, torrents, games or whatever getting priority traffic first?
I have. Not all routers/router firmwares are created equal. Many on this forum have mentioned using various routers moded with Tomato firmware or DDWRT. What router and firmware do you use?
randomLettersandNumbers:
Quote from: QBZappy on August 16, 2011, 07:44:18 pm
Trial and error method. Once you have an acct setup you will have to call yourself and change the setting to a ring that you like.
Gotcha.
Quote from: QBZappy on August 16, 2011, 07:44:18 pm
Once you get an acct with voip.ms, the sub acct is set up on their web portal. The sub acct is a variation of the main acct name that you can choose for yourself.
Remember that the OBi has 2 slots for setting up sip accts. If you need more sub accts you may need to setup using the OBi gateway. Setting up using an OBi gateway is slightly different. I'm not certain that voip.ms can be setp that way since I do not use the gateways. RonR can probably confirm that.
I created an account with voip.ms. Default setup. No sub accounts yet. Haven't been able to plow through the guide. So, I want to have a personal friends&family line and my wife's business line. You said that the Obi only has 2 slots for SP1 and SP2.
If I understand this correctly then:
I create 2 subaccounts.
subaccount one: 13xxxx_home
Subaccount two: 13xxxx_business
In order to complete these subaccount setups I need to get two DID USA phone numbers in some area of my region that is reasonably close.
subaccount one: 13xxxx_home
Subaccount two: 13xxxx_business
Authentication type -- User/Password Authentication -- 13xxxx_home
Authentication type -- User/Password Authentication --13xxxx_business
Account names can be home and business.
CallerID Number? Is that the two DID numbers I would enter from the purchased DID USA numbers?
I'm in South Carolina so is picking the Atlanta server the best bet?
If I wanted to add in my cell phone as additional sub account then your saying this wouldn't work right because you have to have a 1:1 ratio with subaccounts to SP1 slots on the OBI?
I would like to have the inbound number that rings the "business" line to ring the phone connect to the obi AND ring my wife's cell phone between 9Am-5PM. Otherwise, inbound will then go to voicemail.
Home phone will just go to voice mail after X amount of rings or whatever.
I guess the password is just something made up and only a part of the voip.ms site.
Once sub accounts are setup on the voip.ms side. Did you just use the config guide that is posted for Obi on the voip.ms website and mirror similar setup for the SP2 slot for the 2nd business number?
Quote from: QBZappy on August 16, 2011, 07:44:18 pm
I have. Not all routers/router firmwares are created equal. Many on this forum have mentioned using various routers moded with Tomato firmware or DDWRT. What router and firmware do you use?
I have the DLINK -DGL4500 router. I tried some QOS rules in the "game fuel" section to prioritize Google voice and chat traffic but that seemed to not make a difference with the unreliable Google voice service. People call they can't hear me, or they cannot hear me speaking when I call. It was frustrating.
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