[TriLUG] recommendations for hosted telephone service

[Keith Woodie]

So when you call out does it show the Google Voice for your caller ID?

Thanks.
Keith Woodie


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Franklin Moody <fmoody at moodman.org> wrote:
> On 7/24/2012 3:26 PM, Bill Farrow wrote:
>> At home we use CallCentric.com for our SIP provider with a dial-in
>> number (DID), voicemail is sent to our email addresses as an mp3, and
>> all calls are charged by the minute. Our fixed monthly cost is $3.50
>> for the dial-in number which includes the e911 fee.  When you include
>> our incoming and outgoing calls, we pay about $10 month for the home
>> phone.
>>
>> The hardware is simple. A small $35 Linksys PAP2 or PAP2T box is
>> connected via an ethernet switch to our TWC modem, and the phone jack
>> is connected to a cordless phone base station.  That's it, no messing
>> with firewalls, computers, etc.  Very high Wife Acceptance Factor
>> (WAF).
>>
>> This has worked so well, I have helped 3 friends deploy the same setup
>> at their homes.
>>
>> Bill
>
>         Just to chime in on the hardware, I picked up a Obihai Obi110 recently
> and it seems to be doing fairly well from both a hardware and a software
> point of view.  I'm just using Google Voice at the moment as it was
> painless and quick to set up.  I plan on using Callcentric for it as
> well, but haven't gotten around to setting that up...  And have been
> fairly happy with just calling in and out over GVoice so far.
>
> (Callcentric is still in the plans and would be side by side with the
> GVoice integration (apparently). But limited time and nearly no pain so
> far means less incentive...)
>
> Frank
>
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