Using Obi110 as PSTN ONLY gateway to Obi100
gregyoung:
Hi -
I'm completely new to VOIP, though very comfortable with computer and computer networking technology. I've been searching for the answer to this in the FAQs and forums but nothing seems clear to me.
We live in a rural area of San Diego with a large property with several buildings and are only able to get a weak AT&T DSL line for internet, plus POTS. We do not wish to use any of our limited DSL bandwidth for phone service - NO VOIP - so I bought an Obi 110 and 100 with the intention of using the 110 as a PSTN gateway to at least one Obi100. I've got the PSTN line plugged into the 110 line in, no service providers configured on either the 110 or the 100, and the default SP1 set to PSTN. How do I configure the 110 to act as a gateway for that PSTN service to the 100? What service provider setup do I need on the 100? Any other tricks to make this work? Router port forwarding or configuration?
Thank you so much!
Greg
Rick:
What is your goal here? Trying to have incoming calls from VoIP lines but have them come in on PSTN?
Seems to me that any VoIP call has to come in over the DSL to get to the OBi.
Shale:
I think gregyoung wants to receive analog calls on the OBi110 and have them to also ring on phones hooked to one or more OBI100s. He wants to be able to dial analog calls from an OBi100 and have them go out on the PSTN from the OBi110.
Gregyoung does not want to involve a SIP provider, but he does want to use SIP directly between the OBi units that are on his LAN.
I think there was a UK user recently doing something similar, but my search for greenhouse and "green house" did not turn up the thread I thought I remembered.
Rick:
I guess I fail to see what the OBi's are accomplishing in that setup that a wireless phone system cannot accomplish, unless the goal is to go between multiple buildings that are wired together with ethernet - in which case they could be wired with phone line.
ianobi:
Shale,
I think I was involved in that UK thread - which I also can no longer find! He had cat5 cable between the house and his garden shed, so I came to the same conclusion as Rick and advised a small PBX system.
gregyoung,
If you have ethernet between the buildings, then this post by RonR gives some details of how to achieve sharing a PSTN line between different OBi devices:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=2016.msg12745#msg12745
There are other examples of master/slave type setups. It depends on exactly what is needed.
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