Quote from: MurrayB on January 13, 2013, 03:12:56 PM
I have obi 110 in two locations with two GV numbers and a PSTN on each. They are both setup to fork all incoming calls to the other Obi110 via the ObiTalk Network causing each Obi 110 to ring. My guess is that forking is what you are calling "simulring". You could setup your Obi such that all incoming calls ring your house phones and your cell phone.
Thank you very much for the reply and information Murray.
Yeah, I'm not up to speed on the correct terminology yet. Vonage called it "simulring" when they had it ring two different numbers for an incoming call. I'm also not quite sure if I'm misusing the terms "PSTN" and "landline". I was using those terms to refer to a line I can plug into the regular old telephone on my desk. I'm thinking, though, that maybe those are supposed to refer to an AT&T or similar telephone line. I don't have any of those. Maybe I should have said a VOiP line instead. Sorry about that if I messed that up.
In any event, from what you said, it sounds like I could get an OBi 202 with two VOiP ports, and have Sprint cell/Google Voice #1 ring phone port #1, and Google Voice #2 ring phone port #2 and also "fork" so that it will also ring Google Voice #1.
If so, that would be a viable option for me, and I think I should be able to hook port #1 into a phone jack in the house to make all of the phones live and able to answer a call to either line.
I wonder, though, if there is another possibility as well. Could Sprint/Google Voice #1 and Google Voice #2 both share port #1 on the OBi and also have Google Voice #2 fork so that it will ring the cell phone on Sprint/Google Voice #1?
If so, that would be even better in a couple of ways. It would only ring line #1 rather than both lines if someone called Google Voice #2. It would also open up a phone port so that I could set up a "landline" for the rest of the family.