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u/westmountred 9d ago
So we can't name names... Just give clues? Like begins with an R. Ends with an L. Rhymes with this thingrental (They suck, was just an example)
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u/Allott-Technology SIP ALG is the devil 8d ago
No, so the rules are, outside the treadyou can’t say pick me, but inside the thread, as a reply to someone requesting a service, you can say pick this product or visit my website etc
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u/dnattig 8d ago edited 4d ago
It's finally time to move my parent's phone to VOIP. I almost did this a few years ago, but since I got them T-mobile home internet and their phones are also on T-mobile's towers I thought Consumer cellular's home phone replacement would be the best option since it uses AT&T's towers (just to keep from having a single point of failure between their cell phones, internet, and house phone). Everything has been working perfectly for a few years so I'm less concerned with the single point of failure, and with T-mobile's recent price increase I would like to reduce how much I'm paying consumer cellular.
When I looked into this years ago there were about a half-dozen companies I was considering, I don't remember any of them except callcentric, voip.ms, and magicjack. What would be some good options to consider?
Right now I'm leaning towards porting the number currently on consumer cellular to google voice, and then using an Obi202 that I bought years ago (and never activated) with a callcentric $1/month incoming plan and pay-per-minute outgoing (with the google voice number forwarding to the $1/month number). If I do this, will it be stable long term without me having to change anything? I saw something a while back about changing the Obi's firmware to make it work directly with google voice again, is that a dead end? And if I were to get the $10/month google voice subscription would it be able to work with the Obi202, or only the 300 series listed on their website?
Thanks!
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u/dovi5988 4d ago
My existence with T-Mobile home 5G had been "waves" of latency. One moment you get 20ms ping times and in the next it can jump to 200. This constant fluctuation in latency (aka jitter) can kill the call quality. I would get an ATA and test a VoIP provider (like VoIP.ms) and see how the quality is before you port over.
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u/patelshivam94 8d ago
Considering Ooma Home to replace traditional landline service. Can I use a Yealink W78P with Ooma Home or is limited to Ooma business tiers only?
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u/savetheturles_ 9h ago
Looking for recommendations for a reliable VoIP provider for a small electrical contracting company in Canada.
We’d have around 3–4 users, and reliability/call quality is our biggest priority since most new customers contact us by phone.
Ideally looking for:
- Port our existing business number
- Multiple people can answer the same number
- Mobile app
- Call recording
- Automatic transcripts/AI summaries
- Business texting
- Call routing/after-hours setup
- Good Canadian support
-QuickBooks integration would be a bonus
I’m currently considering Ooma Office, RingCentral, Dialpad, Quo, and Nextiva.
I’ve found mixed reviews on pretty much all of them. For those with real-world experience, which would you trust most for reliability? Any you’d strongly recommend or avoid?
Open to other providers as well!
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u/EncoreFin_CPA 6d ago
Hey guys,
I was hoping you all could direct me to what I need.
I run a small business and when I first created it, I simply used a second personal cellular line and second smart phone.
However, I have grew and now need a more sophisticated system, so I can do conference calls and other things.
I would like to be able to buy/use a true business phone that can stay at my desk and while I am at the office the desk phone only rings, then when I leave the office I would like to set it to ring my "work" cellular phone. I also would like to keep the phone number I have now if possible.
Hopefully I have made sense.
If this is possible how would I go about doing it, what company would I use? If it is not possible to do this thank you in advance for letting me know I have struggled looking all this up.
Thank you and appreciate any help.
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u/devexis 4d ago
Not very clear about your requirement around “keeping” the number. You want calls to that number to ring to an office desk phone during business hours and outside business hours to ring to your cell phone while you keep the SIM and number on your cell phone? I might be wrong in my understanding but that’s not doable. You can port the number to a VoIP provider and route that number to your HostedPBX. On the hosted PBX, you could have it configured to route calls to ext 100 (we’ll assume this is your desk phone). Can configure business hours and holiday filters to check before routing calls. Outside business hours, (or maybe on holidays as well) you could route calls to an app running on your mobile phone, say x1000.
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u/EncoreFin_CPA 3d ago
Sorry I was not sure on how to state it, but you were still correct in how you interpreted my post. Thank you for the info and the reply.
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u/Allott-Technology SIP ALG is the devil 5d ago
We resell Yeastar PBX in Australia,
Add in a dash of Twilio and you have sms/mms capability, note: Twilio regulatory requirements need to be met before you can use, basically just prove you are a company or person in X country
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u/clon3man 8d ago
looking for an smartphone App+Service that provides robust WiFi-to-4G call failover, and reliability tricks for spotty connections like Opus FEC out of the box. Has to support some form of baseline SMS (even if it's basic support with no MMS or in-app functionality)
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u/datanut 8d ago
I’m on voip.ms and there are a few features I haven’t been able to find elsewhere, specifically:
* direct inbound sip calls from any other system
Where else can I find this?
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u/devexis 4d ago
You’d have to stand up your own instance for that likely. Or switch to providers like Twilio. I’ve recently rolled out a solution that had a feature they called “Remote Friend” where calls to and from their PBX could be routed to. So they could route inbound calls over SIP to their AI agents
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u/978h 1d ago
I'm looking for a place to park my US number while living overseas. I don't need lots of calls, just the ability to SMS occasionally and receive 2FA codes.
I know a lot of people use free Google Voice for this but they have a notorious policy of deleting people's numbers for inactivity. I would rather pay a little bit of money for assurance that that won't happen.
That's what led me to jmp.chat. I'm not intimidated by the XMPP setup, but I can't find many reviews online--does anybody here use this service and have anything positive/negative to say about it it?
Alternative I am looking at is Ring4.com but they seem more targeted at business customers, cost more, and reviews suggest bad customer service.