obi110 + Naf - Did not work is it broken?
Girlfriend noticed that phone was broken a few days ago and then I read where OBI abandoned Obi110 owners and no longer support the device Searched and found a link to naf firmware that was supposed to...
View ArticleComing Soon - OBi 202/200 - End of Life (EOL)
OBi 202 was released on March 2012. Hence OBi 202 is 6 years is 6 Years OLD Therefore by OBi Standards a 6 year old device definitely qualifies to be marked EOL But when will OBi announce 200/202 as...
View Article[Other] Google Voice questions
Before anything else, I use corded phones only (currently via magic jack), and use Win-XP. But since with MJ - Caller ID is a no-show, I'm considering GV. so...I've bought an OBI200 approx. 2 weeks ago...
View ArticleWas DSLR web site down this morning?
Good day. From shortly after five this morning until about ten minutes ago, I could not open this web page. Firefox gave a "Server not found" error. "host" came up with a "(NXDOMAIN)" error. Did anyone...
View ArticleCircleNet XMPP bailout Plan
Hello DSLReports group, I thought this was a big enough deal and useful enough to the community as a whole to open a new thread and didn't want to hijack the existing one on XMPP with my offer. First...
View Article[General] g722 wideband on analog phones
Tried g722 today for the first time and I am impressed with it. (Until today I've been mostly using alaw. The difference in quality is astounding.)...
View Article[General] need suggestions for forwarding service
I have a (mostly) legacy toll free number that rarely gets any use but I keep around just in case. The most usage I have had in a year was 56 minutes in a month. These were incoming minutes only. I am...
View Article[Unlock] New Grandstream ATA used by Vonage [Unlocked]
Looks like Vonage uses a new Grandstream ATA for their service, model HT802. It's Grandstream newest generation of ATAs, with 2 ports. Currently available at Walmart and BestBuy for $10. If unlockable,...
View ArticleNumbergroup closed my account
Numbergroup has closed my "grandfathered" free account which I have had since July 2010. They did this without warning sometime during the last 48 hours or so supposedly because of infrequent use...
View Article[Anveo] Specifying the email/sms for e911 alerts on Anveo's portal
I think I must be losing my mind... Not sure if there's been a change to their site, or simply that I'm running low on marbles. I can't find the place on Anveo's customer portal where we can specify...
View ArticleFBI suggets rebooting routers. How safe are we?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/27/technology/router-fbi-reboot-malware.html Many of us have Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear and TP-Link routers mentioned in the article. Cisco Talos listed the definitively...
View ArticleVoip and Lightning
Everybody knows that speaking on a copper wire phone during a lightning storm can be hazardous to health. Does the same rule apply to speaking on a voip phone during a lightning storm?
View ArticleNew CircleNet $8 and $15 BYOD plans
Hello DSLReports, We're announcing some changes to our recent BYOD plans the changes are in response to requests we've gotten from users here and on the Obitalk forums. We're relaxing the rule that you...
View Article[Asterisk] Notes on getting MWI to work between two asterisk servers
I spent a lot of time getting the message waiting indicator on my Polycom IP phone working with asterisk, so I thought I'd post my notes, in case it helps anybody else trying to do this in the future....
View Article[General] Non-metered DID provider that does not charge porting fee?
Does anyone know of a (wholesale) DID provider that does not meter and has no porting fees?
View Article[General] Where's the 15 minute timeout?
We’ve had a Greek DID from Anveo for about 4 years. In the last few months my wife has noticed that inbound calls hangup after 14min 54sec. I’ve tried to find some factor I can change to eliminate the...
View ArticleFixing CNAM
I have a phone number that for some reason shows up as a business to many folks I call. In my limited understanding of how this all works, I believe that CNAM is provided by a couple different...
View ArticleObihai OBi200 VoIP Telephone Adapter with Google Voice & SIP $35
i know there are some who won't ever buy a Obi device again with their forced update issues and EOL tactics but for those who have their reasons to continue buying Obi devices before June 18th, Newegg...
View Article[PBX] FreePBX for the Raspberry Pi
The included script (install) and archive (install.tar.gz) will build FreePBX 2.11, 12, 13, or 14 plus Asterisk 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 on a Raspberry Pi. iptables, dnsmasq, exim4, and pygooglevoice are...
View ArticleGoogle Voice XMPP support will go away in June
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=13824.0 Will naf be able to fix the OBi100?
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