Sam,
Just wanted to say thanks. I put the service through its paces today, and didn't encounter a single glitch. I've been a loyal GV user for years, mostly to get simultaneous ring on my cell phones. I work from home one day each week, and bought my OBI 100 a couple of years ago so I could use GV and a cordless phone instead of tying up my home phone or using my cell...
I signed up about a week ago, and everything worked but had only really made a few test calls before today. I use CircleNet for outgoing, and Callcentric for incoming DID (especially since I am in NY, so the local DID is free, even though I only use it as a GV forwarding number so incoming works on my OBI).
I made about 300 minutes of outgoing calls, which were comprised of 4 toll free conference calls (about 180 minutes in total), plus a few regular domestic dial long distance calls (about 120 minutes). The call quality on all of the calls was very good, as good as I usually get on my cordless phone. There were no odd sounds, no muffled voices, nothing...
My cost for the day was about $0.30 -- the only strange thing to me is the disparity in rates -- some calls are about one-sixth of a cent per minute, when others are one-third of a cent per minute. I know it really depends on the routing, but the costs are really low for good quality. I just hope you got paid something for my toll-free calls too...
After my CircleNet account was activated, I changed the CallerID to my GV number. Then on the OBI, I just cleared the OBI dashboard, reset and rebooted the OBI (so it would be completely clean) and then used the Dashboard to set up both CallCentric (on SP1) and CircleNet (as generic on SP2), and made sure to check the box on CircleNet that it's the default outgoing service. No other settings were necessary -- everything just works!
I don't really use GV for voicemail access from my VOIP, but I know I can't dial my own GV number for access to that yet -- I'll need a sub-account if I want to do that (covered in another post in this forum). For now, I am happy just using my cell to get my GV voicemails since I really use this as a second line.