Reddit reviews Obihai OBi110 Voice Service Bridge and VoIP Telephone Adapter
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Use with SIP Service ONLY - Does Not Support Google VoiceVoIP ATA and Gateway Supports Analog Line and SIP Services; Callcentric, Sipgate, Vitelity, Voip.ms, etc.Make free calls on the OBiTALK Network - Connect to other OBi DevicesSome of the OBi110 Calling Features: Call Forward, Caller ID – Name - Number, Anonymous Caller Blocking, Message Waiting Indication - Visual and Tone BasedManage Your OBi, Connect to Your Friends' OBi Devices, Add Services, Speed Dial Up to 99 OBi Endpoints or Phone Numbers
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But some reliable cost savers that work for me.
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And of course, learn how to spend less on entertainment/phone.
Depending on what cost tier you're going for.
But I'm gonna guess a good internet connection, a tracphone, and maybe netflix should have all your bases covered.
Everything else you can just get from the internet.
(Although maybe Skype for another $3 a month... dunno how that compares to the cost of a landline phone)
Although for phone, maybe buying one of these, and paying nothing per month would be better than skype.
OBi110 + Google Voice = "Free" Landline phone, for nationwide calls.
(Although granted, maybe even this is too expensive)
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For even cheaper, a lot of libraries have free DVD rentals.
And redbox kiosks, are $1 for a one nights movie rental for new movies.
Debian, Asterisk and even the computer are unnecessary using an Obi110 ATA that plugs into your router and uses Google Voice.
http://www.amazon.com/Obihai-OBi110-Service-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI
Google Voice calls are free for 2011, but cost is unknown after that point.
TV: Usenet, Netflix, and get an antenna.
You can hook up Netflix to your TV using a Roku or Boxee Box, or a smart internet-enabled TV if you have one.
Check out TVFool to find out what channels are available for free over the air in your area. If you live within 50-100 miles of the US border as the crow flies, you should be set to receive 10-30 channels for free in high quality HD, much higher quality than you can receive over cable. Pretty much anywhere in the Golden Horseshoe receives a great selection of channels for example, except maybe Newmarket and further north.
If you do decide to go the antenna route, check out this forum where people talk about reception results in different parts of Canada, and what antennas they had to install to get those channels. Best of all, this truly is a one-time investment, and it's totally legal. No need for multiple receiver boxes or any other nonsense.
If you set up usenet by following this guide, you can connect a Boxee Box to a computer that downloads things via usenet, and hook up Boxee to your TV. Your favorite shows and movies will be set to download automatically, and you can watch them on your TV.
Internet: Teksavvy. It's as good as they say it is. They still offer unlimited download plans and their standard plans involve a very reasonable 300 GB per month usage + no contracts + great support.
Home phone: Teksavvy offers phone service and long distance as well. They are a Bell reseller (in southern Ontario at least), but it feels good to not give Bell any money directly. For long distance, I make and receive calls for free using Google Voice, but I have used Teksavvy long distance occasionally and their rates are quite reasonable. If you set up a Google Voice account, you can get an adapter like this one that hooks up to your phone.
This
Magicjack creeps me out. I use this baby for my home phone w/ my Google Voice #.
A highly rated VoIP device. Let's you use your internet connection as a phone line, and does a very good job of it apparently (I have not personally tried one because I don't need a land line at all.)
[OBI] (http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342985872&sr=8-1&keywords=obi)
you can hook one of these up with a google voice number. i dont have any experience doing it though.
Just get a VoIP adapter like the OBi110. It has native Google Voice integration.
Get one of these. You can plug any phone into it and use your Google Voice number for free. You can make and receive calls all day. I have one at home, changed my life.
If you have the internet you can always get:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045RMEPI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?t=slickdeals&ie=UTF8&tag=slickdeals&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0045RMEPI
Which is $50 and will connect a land line to google voice for free US & Canada Calls.
Ive ditched the phone cord for a prepaid cell phone that I use on the go, and for most calls I use a Obi110 and Google Voice. (4 months ongoing now)
Its lets me route all my calls from GV into the Obi for free (at least until Google decides its time to charge for it). You can use a normal landline phone with the Obi, or configure it to just use a smartphone as your "landline" phone via wifi or even plug in your existing phone system into the device and have the option of either. Obi -> Obi calls are free and you can even (with permissions) dial another Obi device and use THAT phone system to make calls from.
Anyway, I probably use my cellphone for maybe 100 minutes a month and the rest of my phone use is at home. Pretty cheap and I don't feel limited by minutes. I also don't need to have a computer running 24/7 in order to recieve calls.
Are you using a phone adapter thing, like this http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=IOIIG7CQMOV77&colid=2ZDNU5ATBRQUK or do you just use your computer for calls? I have been thinking about switching to VOIP only, and loosing the cell phone. I have also considered getting a newer smart phone, and doing VOIP over WIFI, without cell service, but I am curious about your experience.
I do this with an iPod Touch. Google Voice hooked to Google TalkaTone installed on the touch. Free calls over WiFi.
Then I have a cheap MiFi account with TruConnect ($5/month plus data charges) to make/get calls when I'm away from the house.
As for a phone-jack style phone, someone mentioned an OBI 110 to me today. Would this work?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045RMEPI/ref=s9_simh_gw_p229_d0_g229_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0RN3FCA4727BP1THSDBF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470939031&pf_rd_i=507846
Link to Fatwallet discussion
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/1079982/?start=40
Link to Obi site and their forums
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?Elgg=rtrq1qp2a1te4jen3v2vemglr0&
Link to review
https://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/review-of-the-obihai-obi110-voip-device-part-1-use-your-phone-with-google-voice-for-free-incoming-and-outgoing-calls/
Link to setup and tweaking depending on your skill
http://voxilla.com/2011/01/24/how-to-use-google-voice-and-obi-for-all-your-calls-free-2512
Link to Amazon reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Obihai-OBi110-Service-Telephone-Adapter/product-reviews/B0045RMEPI/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Telephone: Google Voice + [OBi110 Voice Bridge](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045RMEPI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=cronkalytics-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B0045RMEPI"&gt;OBi110 Voice Service Bridge and VoIP Telephone Adapter</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=cronkalytics-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0045RMEPI&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369)
TV: Get a Roku
Obi110 hooked up to my FIOS Router and a DECT 6.0 compatible phone. Add in a Google Voice account and you get free local and long distance in the US. I also added in a $1.50/mo CallCentric account so that I could have e911 service.
An OBi110 would probably be your cheapest bet. It's now discontinued, but works perfectly well.
It looks like it's cheaper from Amazon.com even with shipping to Canada and the currency conversion.
> or is there software that will use a Data/Fax/Voice modem?
Theoretically yes although I'm told the audio quality doing it that way is terrible.
I love banging around on asterisk. If that is the goal take a look at elastix or pbxinaflash...Use the android phone as a SIP client.
Now -- if your goal is to make calls grab -- http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI
Yes it cost money -- but -- you should quickly make that up when
compared to having an old computer run 24x7.
I've been thinking of getting an Obihai ( http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI ), but I'll see what the service is like in my apt first.
Also, apparently if you go over it's 10 cents a minute, which would work out to 45 dollars for 450 minutes, and $75 (45 + 30) for 550 minutes is still less than I'm paying per month right now.
I'll look into your recommendation, thanks!
Buy this - obi110
It connects to Google Voice, and has a regular telephone port that he can connect his phone to. It's $50, and no monthly fees, assuming Google leaves gmail calls free.
More details: http://obihai.com/googlevoice.html
As an option, you may consider doing what I'm doing: Internet + Google Voice.
I have Comcast HSI only, and a nifty box, the OBi110 VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge. Those two with a free Google Voice account get you, in my experience, solid telephone service.
Since I have a home run situation in my house, the cable modem, router and OBi110 are in the same place. I've hooked existing telephone cabling into the OBi, and have regular old phones plugged in all over the house.
One downside is that you will not have accurate 911 geo location service. I'm not even sure where my 911 call would be routed if I do need to make the call.
The big upside with Google Voice is that you can route your one telephone number to your cell, home, work based on rules you set up.... plus other nice features.
I hope that helps a bit.
Also - with your 1.5 connection, you may consider buying a newer cable modem that supports DOCIS v3.0. That should help your speed a bit too, unless you have some other issues on your connection.
Google Voice might go a long way towards getting you your fantasy solution. I use it daily.
What I did was port my cell phone number (the number everybody has known me by for 15+ years) to Google Voice. I then got a new cell phone number and an Obihai VOIP thingy. Total cost was a one-time $20 to port my number, $35 for the Obi thingy, and basic cell phone service.
I configured my Google Voice account with my new cell phone number and set up my Voice account on the Obihai. When you call my 15 year old phone number, both my cell phone and any land line phones I have plugged into the Obihai ring. Whichever picks up first gets the call. Simultaneous ring! When I pick up on an Obi phone, I'm not charged any minutes and the sound quality is far superior than cell and delay much reduced.
On my android phone, I set up Google Hangouts for text and the Google Voice app for voice calls. When I make a call on my cell phone, Voice spoofs my 15 year old phone number so people I call only ever see my Voice number, not my new cell phone number. NOBODY ever sees my cell number whether I text or call. They always see my Voice number, which is the number they've always ever seen from me.
Also, if you have Voice open in a web browser, calls and text ring through there too. So if you were to set up a PC with a set of speakers, keep Google Voice open in a web browser and calls will ring through the speakers.
I have a number of phones connected to the Obihai throughout the house. I even have a few antique rotary phones connected with a pulse to DTMF converter so I can dial out.
The product you're looking for does not exist, and if it did exist, it would not work.
The Huawei router you've linked in your replies contains a built-in SIP Gateway. In order to get that feature back after you replace your router with one that doesn't have it, you need to plug something else into your new router to get this feature back.
Any SIP gateway like this Cisco device or this Obihai device will work. They'll still need to be configured to work with your SIP service provider.
There was a recent post about this by a redditor here (link to reddit post, but actual steps are on his blog which the post title linked to). However, instead of building an asterisk box, the 2nd most upvoted commenter recommended buying this instead, which would do the same thing. That looks to be cheaper and easier than a Sheeva Plug. Either way, you can use analog phones with the device, which converts the stream to VOIP, and you can use Google as your SIP provider, provided you are using your GV number.
There is a SIP client for Android which will allow you to use GV over VOIP here, with some tutorials linked at the bottom. You'll still use your minutes when out and about, but otherwise you'll be all VOIP.
Keep in mind Google has not promised free SIP access for any length of time. If I remember right, the service was either discovered or possibly leaked, but there was never any announcement or launch for it, so it could possibly disappear, at which point you would probably want to subscribe to a SIP provider.
You can buy one of these for $50 and use it with a google voice number: http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B0045RMEPI/?tag=dp-us-20
Problem for me is google voice offers no local phone numbers in my area, so I'd either have to have an oddball landline number which would be long distance for neighbors to call, or fork out the $200 for the ooma.
Also, if you get the Obi110 it lets you use Google voice with a home phone