Actual setup for home residential AND Google Voice
MichiganTelephone:
I will just point out that if you have an OBi110 and you are not using the LINE port for anything else, it's usually possible (with the right equipment) to get "free" 911 service. You may have to watch eBay for a while to find someone selling the right equipment (you need something that allows you to connect a regular wired telephone to a cell phone):
Review of the Obihai OBi110 VoIP device, Part 3: 911 on the cheap?
There are some caveats as mentioned in the article but in most areas of the country I think you'd find that this works without any problem at all. There's also a link there to another article that explains how you can pay a very small monthly charge to have 911 service via SIP, if that's your preference.
By the way, the reason this is such a hot button issue for people is because people have different ways of evaluating security, and there is a difference in the feeling of security vs. the reality of security. Landline phone service has never been 100% reliable, and is subject to windstorms and tornadoes, trees falling on above-ground lines, and backhoes or flooding taking out underground facilities. For an interesting take on this, you might want to watch this TED Talk:
Bruce Schneier: The security mirage
ellett:
A couple of things:
1. I ported my old land line number to Google Voice. Cost $30. I'm a T-Mobile customer so I took an old mobile phone from the garage and bought a $10 prepaid SIM from T-Mobile and had them port my land line to the prepaid. Once that was done I ported the "mobile" number to my Google Voice account for $20. Once that was done I set my GV account to my OBi. Works great. If anyone wants to do this and they're T-Mobile there are a couple of things to know. First, your prepaid account number is your phone number with area code including a leading "1". Second you'll set up a 4-digit security code when you open the account and when you start the port from GV, it will fail after a couple of hours and you'll be prompted to enter your security code.
2. I've been a CallCentric customer for a while and I pay $2.99 for a dirt-cheap number and $1.50 for e911. Incoming calls are free and outgoing calls are $.02 per minute. I've been using GV so all CallCentric calls have been incoming, and now with my OBi I've swapped to using GV directly as my SP1, so still no cost. I have CallCentric as SP2 and am configuring OBi to use it as preferred outgoing e911.
I may drop the Dirt Cheap and change to an IP Freedom at no cost or may keep the Dirt Cheap to play with since it's a standard SIP number.
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