Obihai OBi202 2-Port VoIP Phone Adapter with Google Voice

I bought the OBI202 VOIP $80 box and got a free Google voice number and setup the OBI web interface and Google voice interface in about 20 minutes and started FREE local and long distance calling in and out. Google voice allows you to get a free local area code phone number in your area, but you can port over your existing land line # to Google Voice for $20, See details below. Ive used this system for about one month to date. I spent about 30 minutes prior to this setup reading all the documentation on the OBi web site. The physical OBI box setup consists of plugging in the 12VDC powers supply into the OBi box and into a wall outlet, connecting a supplied 4' Ethernet cable from your OBI box to your router, and connecting an RJ11 phone cable from the OBI box to an existing house phone line, after disconnecting from any phone company analog line outside your house. Plug in BlueTooth adapter into OBI box. You need a high speed internet hard wired line from your router to use the OBi box. There is a OBI wifi adapter $20 to connect to your router via wi-fi, but hard wired router connection is recommended for better quality. I have had Comcast VOIP service for two years and this will replace the Comcast voice account and save about $40/mo plus an additional $10/mo when I return the combo internet/voice modem and by a new internet only modem $80 and cancel Comcast VOIP service. I forwarded my home phone # thru Comcast voice forward to the temporary Google Voice phone number they assign to test this OBI box for one month, almost done testing and have had no dropped call, very clear sound quality. With the bluetooth OBI adapter $20 you can also pair your cell phone to he OBI box and use your cell phone to call out and in as a second phone line from a wired house phone. In my case I have a base wireless phone in the kitchen plugged into the phone line and 4 wireless remotes wired thru the old ATT house hard wired phone lines back to the OBI box RJ11 phone output jack and the OBI box internet input jack is hard wired with a 4' CAT 6 cable to my router port RJ45 Ethernet port in the living room. The OBI box back feeds an analog phone signal to the original ATT phone lines in the house which used to be connected via the original ATT analog phone system up to about 2 years ago when I switched to Comcast VOIP. My 2 year Comcast contract is up and they raised the price so OBI is the replacement. These hard wired phone lines in turn connect to my rotary phones and my wireless phones. I Also have several very old hard wired rotary phones I wanted to keep active, over 75 years old, with pulse dialing that would not work with the OBI box tone system, but I bought a DIALGIZMO interface box (From Australia) http://www.dialgizmo.c o m for $40 which plugs into a standard RJ11 jack hard wired line and the old rotary phone plugs into the interface DIALGIZMO small box 2"x3" which converts pulses to tones, and the old rotary phones work correctly with the OBI box. The Dialgizmo box also allows up to 6 phone numbers to be stored and recalled from the old rotary phone, slick trick. The best thing about the whole OBI system is the FREE local and long distance calls, no annual fees and no taxes, like Comcast or the other VoIP boxes which all have annual or monthly fees. Savings should be over $500/yr for an $80 investment in the OBI. Google voice also has low long distance rates. The setup software on the OBI website takes a while to go thru, but the OBI setup wizard is good and clear instructions. Google Voice number also allows voice mail to show up on their web interface, and if you allow, Google Voice will convert voice mail to text if you don't answer the phones so you can retrieve voice mail from any browser. Obi web site goes thru detailed instructions in how to obtain and setup a Google Voice account. You can also have the OBI box also ring your cell phone as well as your hard wired phones in the house or remotely. Reading the OBI FAQ's on their web site shows people with lots of issues on the OBI systems, but mine has been flawless. One more great feature is the OBI IOS or Android app you can download to a phone or an IPAD that has only wifi connection, no cell service, that will allow a phone or Ipad app to dial the OBI box thru the internet and then an auto attendant asks if you want to dial another number, you put in your local or long distance number and it dials out and connects. So your IPAD uses the OBI box as a re-dialer for free phone calls from anywhere in the world you have wifi access, with no need for a cell phone service. This system using the OBI box and Google voice is probably more complex to setup than other VOIP phone systems like Magic Jack, Vonage, Ooma, etc, but once you buy the $80 box, and the blue tooth adapter for $20 there is zero cost for calls or taxes or fees. The next step in the total phone # conversion will be to port my Comcast very old phone # used for over 30 years to a T mobile cheap cell phone which cost $1.50 for a GSM sim card and $20 for a cheap BLU brand unlocked GSM phone to port my Comcast land line to the temporary cell phone. (Google Voice only ports over mobile phone numbers) After my old land line number is ported to the temporary T mobile cell, then you pay Google Voice account a one time $20 fee to port the number to the Google voice number which in turn is the final number used for calling my OBI box for the permanent Google voice number so I keep my historic home land line number. There are a lot of pieces in this Free VOIP conversion but it all works and the savings pay back the total costs in about 2-3 months for all my investments ~ $140 for the box, blue tooth adapter and the Dialgizmo rotary phone adapter. If you have the time to read all the instructions and do these steps its worth the cost.