Two Obi110s How to Register?
yhfung:
baxtr,
May I ask you a few questions?
1) To which country you are ging to sent the OBi?
Let the name code as country B to be the country that you are going to send the OBi device.
2) Do do you want people in country B with the OBi device to make phone call?
If just the people want to contant you ONLY, then you do not need set anything and just let them have the OBi device, that is all.
3) Besides calling you via OBiTalk, are they going to make call via GV?
If yes, of course, you have to set it up correctly and test without any problem before sending it to country B.
Anyway, you have to tell us what you want to make call between two OBi devices.
YH
baxtr:
I will be sending the Obi to Ukraine. It will be traveling to western Europe. Basically, I only want to establish establish a comm. link between it and and the one I am keeping. Once this is working, I wiil look into forwarding a call to another number in the US. So, you see I am not trying to do any thing exotic.
I am completely new to the world of VoIp. When I signed up with Google Voice, I somehow rceived a number with an area code in Louisiana and I live in Los Angeles, but I guess this doesn't matter if Google Voice is free for calling in the US. As a matter of fact, I don't see where the Google number enters into the Obi picture at all.
Based upon all of your comments, I am going to add the Obi to my ObiTalk account, configure it and the router, buy a cheap telephone (thanks, QBZappy; didn't think of this.) and ship it off.
I did have some reservations about adding the second Obi to my account in the event that it was lost or stolen, but then I read somewhere that no account information is stored in the Obi.
Thanks for all of your comments,
Baxter
QBZappy:
baxtr,
One last suggestion. You may want to setup a free SIP account with sip2sip (https://mdns.sipthor.net/register_sip_account.phtml) along with a free GV account. You will be offering yourself a possible 3 voice channels between the two OBis. Might as well configure the two SIP accounts in the OBi before shipping it off.
SIP account
OBi network
GV (maybe)
GV has been reported to be blocked in certain regions. It may not work out of the box in the Ukraine without getting fancy. I hope you will let us know if you succeed.
I mentioned this before. Since you are also sending a router, you have an opportunity to set up a Dynamic DNS service inside the router. Most routers support this. You really should consider setting that up so that you can have direct access to the OBi. It will be just like having access to it next to your router at home. You will minimize the involvement of the other person fixing or modifying configurations. I spend half my time explaining what to do. It is more efficient for everyone to make the changes magically from your side. Everyone is the happier for it.
Good luck an let us know the results.
yhfung:
I do not know whether you are able to tell your friend in Ukraine to test if any voip-blocking action imposed in your friend's telco. You may apply a public voip account such as iptel such that your friend can make outbound call without any problem.
If there is a voip-blocking action found in Ukraine, then you have to VPN between Ukraine and the US.
YH
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