Best voip telephone adapters according to redditors
We found 64 Reddit comments discussing the best voip telephone adapters. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 64 Reddit comments discussing the best voip telephone adapters. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
google voice and this:
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373483688&sr=1-1
Been using it as a landline for years.
GV has been my only number (other than my cell number, but nobody uses that one) for a year now. No regrets, it works great. Get an Obi-100 and you'll basically have a home phone too.
In order to use google voice to bypass the cost associated with traditional sms messaging on ting I use the following setup. My phone number is actually on google voice not on my ting account. Using the google voice app I'm able to send and receive calls and text messages using my google voice. People don't even know that my number is on google voice and not on ting. All text message are sent over the data connection or wifi. Although there are data charges the amount of data used for messaging is quite small. Since data is used to send messages you would lose the ability to send messages while roaming. Another advantage to this setup is that messages can go over wifi. This is useful if you (like me) are sometimes in a college basement and can't get a signal but you still have access to wifi.
Limitations:
-this only works with android phones
-you will lose the ability to message non traditional numbers (ex 464411)
-you can't send or receive MMS messages
Setup:
When you set up ting you should move your number to google voice not to ting. This cost $20 one time. If your not attached to your number google voice will assign you a new number for free.
Log into your google voice account and add a forwarding phone that is the number that is the number assigned to your ting phone. This is not your google voice number but the number listed in your ting account. When you do this it will place a test call to your ting phone for verification purposes. I would also recommend turning off call screening and enabling the spam filter.
Next download the google voice app and start the setup process. It's important to skip "sprint google voice integration" because your using ting and not sprint. However google voice can't tell that your a ting customer and not a sprint customer so it still prompts you. You should select the following options while setting up the app.
-use google voice to make all calls
-skip voice mail forwarding setup (this is not necessary since your call are already going through google voice)
Next you should log into your ting account and select the line that your are setting up google voice for. Select the following options.
-disable the ability to send and receive text messages
-disable voicemail
Another cool thing you can do now that you have your number on google voice is send and receive text messages in a web browser on your computer by going to voice.google.com If you make a lot of calls at home and have a reliable internet connection you can purchase an obitalk voip adapter. http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376716249&sr=1-1&keywords=obi100
This allows you to make unlimited calls with your google voice numbers while at home using a traditional phone.
Telephones can have decent microphones. The telephone sound is the removal of frequencies above say 4 kHz and below say 800 Hz.
You can likely wire an RJ9/RJ22 jack to a 1/4" TS plug or use something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-cable-3-5mm-Headset-Phones/dp/B015G2DPEO/
and convert the 1/8" jack to a 1/4" TS plug.
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If you want simple, fully featured in a VM: http://incrediblepbx.com/
For analog phones (FXS ports) I use Handytone, [(link)] (http://www.amazon.com/Grandstream-GS-HT702-Handytone-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B007PEIHKE)
This is the cheapest way IMO to get started learning FreePBX/Asterisks.
You might be making a single number port more complex than it needs to be.
One of these:
http://amzn.com/B004LO098O (which is the size of a deck of cards)
a telephone and some web set up and you are done.
Assuming you are in the US and calling the US. If you must make the calls on your iPhone (and don't want a home phone at all) options include:
• A Skype Number and unlimited Skype calling. ~$5-6/month.
• The Talkatone app lets you make and receive Google Voice calls over wifi. I have used the android version, it mostly works as advertised. One time cost/free with ads.
If you are okay with having an actual home phone/willing to buy a handset for that you should check out the Obi. Uses google voice for calling. This is my preferred solution, though it does depend on google keeping free calling via gmail around for the free calling. Should that be discontinued you could just sign up with a SIP provider. http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377883447&sr=8-1&keywords=obi
Of note, none of these include emergency calling for free, with the Obi you can sign up for an emergency calling subscription too, but it'll cost you a couple bucks a month.
Do this, I did and it was a good idea.
Port your number to GV or get a new one.
Buy this: Obihai OBi100
And set it up to use your GVoice account. You can continue to use your phones as you are accustomed to, and GVoice will serve as your Voicemail/Answering machine. You can get the messages on your smartphone, Gvoice website, or call for them from the phone.
The Obihai is supposed to have a really high REN rating (5) so you could conceivably hook it directly to your house wiring and run all your phones with it.
I bought one of these a few months ago and then dug up my old cordless phone and now it's like I am living in the 90s again. Awesome.
This is the right answer. OBi is even cheaper for upfront costs.
It uses your internet connection for VoIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol. You can even set up a Google Voice account to use with it, so you can give clients/whoever else one number, your Google Voice number. Then you can setup (and dynamically change) rules for forwarding calls to your house phone, cell phone(s), work phone if applicable, etc. You can vary it by number (friends/family always ring your cell, other numbers by default ring home phone), time of day, day of week, it's incredibly flexible.
$420 - 1 year 30/5 cable Internet
$80 - Cable modem
$90 - 1 year Netflix gift certificate to myself
$100 - 1 year Hulu gift certificate to myself
$70 - Over the air antenna
$180 - Prepaid CallCentric
$46 - Cisco ATA for CallCentric
$986 for one year of high speed Internet, 1 year of Netflix, 1 year of Hulu, all the over the air HD broadcast stations, near unlimited telephone calls, and all the equipment needed to make it run. No monthly payments or bills for one year. Accessible from my smart phone, smart TV, and computer.
I have been using Google Voice with obihai OBi100 for couple of years now. Haven't had a single issue. You can port your number to google voice.
I haven't found a windows phone app that works with google voice yet. I use google voice with an obi100 device and a cordless phone for making & receiving free calls.
Not really able to help on your question, but why not go with something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SPA112-Port-Phone-Adapter/dp/B00684PN54
with a sip carrier or:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BUV7C9A
if you really want google voice. Not sure that the second one is still supported.
You can use a ATA box to convert the fax phone signal to VoIP.
This will allow you to connect to a SIP network via static IP or by registration.
I've used ATA boxes to test fax over SIP with my companies software and it worked fine. I've not used the cisco boxes linked above and can't remember the model I used. It supports G711/T.38 either way so should be fine.
It is sold here. There is no monthly fee. You use a regular cordless phone and ethernet jack at home to make free calls over Google Voice.
So you need something like this : Cisco SPA112.
The rest of your plan seems to be really good. It will be a much better network than what it is now.
Just touching on telephones, we’ve been using https://www.callcentric.com/ for years for residential phone and they have some practically free plans. They used to even have free numbers if you’re not fussy about area code but I think they discontinued that.
To get dial tone I’d just KISS and use something like this.
Edit: forgot this: Grandstream GS-HT802 2 Port Analog Telephone Adapter VoIP Phone & Device, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JH7MYKA/
This might be straying a little off topic, but this
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O
might be kinda nice if you need to keep in touch with friends/family with a google voice account.
An ATA is a device that will register a SIP extension and hand it off to a normal POTS phone.
Like this:
Cisco SPA112 2 Port Phone Adapter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00684PN54/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_br3.AbJJCV8X5
This way you don't need to replace all your phones.
Google voice plus a thingie. We use it at home for our home office service. Works well
Absolutely. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my lengthy post, but having no landline was really the motivation for the whole writeup (that, and not wanting to pay a monthly fee).
If you're already familiar with Google Voice, order an OBI 100 (not the 110, which allows you to use a landline as well) and you'll have it set up in 5 minutes.
Avoid satellite at all costs. Not worth it. You're paying more for less.
Verizon FiOS is where you want to be, ideally, just due to the technology being superior. Latency, signal quality and bandwidth are all excellent. I have coworkers who have the 300Mbps plan from them and love it (they're definitely power users!). The most basic plan of FiOS will probably treat you mostly well, some others might have to jump in and comment on this as I don't know this stuff personally.
Comcast is mediocre. Their residential side is very unfriendly if you're a power user. They have strict data caps, and violating the data cap three times in a row bans you from their service forever. If you consider yourself a power user (lots of streaming content, large downloads, steam games, etc), you might want to just go with their business level service. You don't have any data caps and if you have an issue with your internet someone to look at it will be out in hours instead of days. The plan isn't awfully expensive either (60/month for 12/2mbps in my area). The drawback is the 200 dollar installation fee and the minimum year-long commitment (or 100 dollar fee for 2 years, 50 dollars for 3). If you break the contract you pay 75% of the remainder of the commitment. So if I broke my contract right now two months into the contract, I'd pay 60 10 .75 = 450 dollars, ouch!
As for your other services...
I see you're bundling phone. There's a very good chance you can get by with much less expensive VoIP phone service (especially if you already use cell phones in your family) and drop the expensive telephone plans. Check out Google Voice; it's a free telephone number that does all sorts of neat tricks and features for you. Then, combine it with the OBi100 so that you have "landline" phones that use Google Voice's free telephone service. It's free calls to the US and Canada, and pretty low international rates. What's the catch? You need your internet connection to be on to get phone calls (but you can get these forwarded to your cell phones too), and you can't make 911 calls from your Google Voice powered phones.
As far as the TV... that's more tricky and I don't have a good answer for you, because I don't even have TV installed at my place and don't care for it. Try reading up in /r/cordcutters about ways to cut the cord. There's a lot of online media options available now with netflix and hulu plus, and many other streaming options too. They can help you with those.
For $39.00 I purchased this: ObiHai Obi100 and have attached it to my phone. It is now my primary home phone and works with Google voice like a charm. I get free calls to my family on the other coast, and I don't use up my mobile minutes. I also added an Anveo e911 account so that emergency calls route the police to the proper address. (it can do two SiP voice providers at once, in case you wanted one for international calling and google for just North America) Obi also has apps for android and iPhones that allow you to use your Obi on your mobile, so if I am on any wifi network, I can call from my mobile and not use minutes.)
It is the best Google voice accessory I have ever bought, and I haven't looked back since.
If it works for you....do what I did. Buy this, setup and profit.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LO098O
Edit: more info on how to setup for your G Voice
http://www.obihai.com/googlevoice
You will probably need to get a voice gateway.
Get an Analog Telephone Adapter like this - it will present dial tone to your burglar alarm. You can also have it put dial tone on your existing home POTS wiring so your old phones work just like they did before you cut over to voip.ms.
Set up each device that connects to voip.ms with its own subaccount.
The voip.ms wiki has lots of good advice.
The coolest thing about voip.ms is that you can set up a "Caller ID filter" to direct all incoming calls from unknown numbers to a simple IVR like "Press 5 now." If the caller doesn't press 5, they get disconnected. It blocks 100% of robocalls.
Interesting -- just curious if you've seen/heard of this beautiful device?
You basically buy it, hook it up to your LAN, configure it to use GV, and voila -- free VOIP without an asterisk/pbx box.
+1 for this.
Voice quality is awesome, and everyone who calls can't tell that it is VoIP.
I have the Obi100 which only cost me $30. I paid another $12 for 911 services since Google Voice doesn't do that.
What you can do is limit your dependence on them. Cancel TV, get Netflix. Buy your own DOCSIS3 modem, return that rental garbage. Cancel phone, get a your own number and a VoIP bridge. The internet service from TWC (my provider) is reasonably priced for the speed and quality IMO. TV and Phone are highway robbery
Links:
Have you considered porting your number to Google Voice and then just forwarding to whatever random number you get from T-mobile?
That's what I did (left Sprint for T-mobile on straight talk). I like it because it means YOU always have control of your number and you're not at the mercy of the cell provider.
And of course you get to use Google Voice which is awesome. Text from your desktop, read / listen to your messages, block spam calls / texts, and my new favorite feature I just found: present a "this number is no longer in service" message to folks you don't want to hear from again!
Plus, if you pick up an obi100 and have an old cordless phone lying around, you get a free home phone w/ unlimited minutes (through 2012 at least) and it uses your same google voice number so you can pick up calls on either your cell or your home phone.
Seriously awesome stuff! And on the cancellation, it "just worked" for Sprint (account showed no service right after port completed which took about a day). You WILL get charged an ETF if you are in contract though, so be aware of that.
following a guide I found on here, I got rid of ATT for google voice and verizon pay as you go. I got an OBi100 from Amazon, and a cheap VTech Phone for home. This gave me unlimited talk when I was at home. This substantially reduced the amount of minutes I needed.
Secondly, I got rid of my expensive family plan from ATT, and went for the 100 minutes, unlimited data/text plan from Verizon. I was paying $135 a month from ATT (for two iPhones) and am now paying $65 a month, for the same two phones. I have a lot less minutes, but I just use my home phone and don't really talk on the phone when I'm out and about. This saves me $70 a month, or $840 a year.
I agree with rosi91 on the most minimalist communication tool. As for my minimalist telephone setup, I have this: http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/KX-TS500B
and this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LO098O/
Simple, easy to setup, and unobtrusive.
EDIT: remove "?ref=" from amazon link
I'm in the lower Hudson Valley NY. For my home office I use Callcentric with a Cisco SPA112. Callcentric is based in NY and their quality is excellent.
Re-seller on AT&T Network.
http://www.consumercellular.com/
If you use your phone at home a bunch and have fast internet mix this cell provider with an Obi and Google Voice to lower usage at home.
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=pd_sim_e_1
http://www.obitalk.com/obinet/
https://www.google.com/voice?pli=1#inbox
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SB2DPQP/
Personally I don't like being tied to any one company. I like choice. One of these http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004LO098O/ref=pd_aw_sbs_1?pi=SL500_SS115&simLd=1 and a callcentrics account or any similar company will do the same thing.
Looking deeper online there is this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LN0OM14/ and this: http://www.pc-telephone.com/pc-to-isdn.htm including this: http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20050206_voip_over_phone_wiring.html
If you have a spare iPhone then all you need is a WiFi connection and Hangouts to use it with Google Voice as a "landline." Hangouts is clunky for dialing out, but answering is pretty smooth. You can place the phone in Airplane mode and then enable WiFi, no need for cell service on the iPhone.
Alternatively, assuming you have a landline handset that you already like and are comfortable with is to get a Obi100 ATA ($38 on Amazon) and a Callcentric account (If you select that you are outside the US and dont care about 911, it is free incoming forever with no montly fees). Dialing out is not possible with this setup (unless you initiate things through Google Voice on the website or the GV App on your iPhone) unless you pay money.
The Obi can connect directly to your GV account to make outgoing calls, but there are a few problems with how it does that. The XMPP interface was supposed to be shutoff by Google earlier this year, but that has not happened. In addition, if you have gmail open, the phone doesn't ring because the calls are redirected there. Therefore it is advisable to have the SIP account to receive the calls with and turn off Gmail for receiving calls in Google Voice(This may also kill Hangouts, so you need to choose what is important to you).
You would need an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) such as this: https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SPA112-Port-Phone-Adapter/dp/B00684PN54/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1525091775&sr=1-1&keywords=cisco+spa112
It will convert from the IP world of Asterisk to the Analog world of your home phone. Even better would be to port your phone number to a VOIP provider such as Flowroute, Google Voice, etc
Google voice with this works great for me I use it as my home phone and is free.
Google voice +Gtalk + Obi100 = free land line
I have it and it works great!
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-VoIP-Voice-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O
http://www.amazon.com/UpBright%C2%AE-Adapter-Aastra-Telephone-Charger/dp/B00DH01B5I
This should work for you. I'm not familiar with this brand or seller, but it's labeled as compatible with your phone.
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.
Hey, I use a handytone device to connect any normal phone to the router. It’s cheap and has never failed me once. You can then use any regular wireless phone. Pretty easy to setup if you’re a bit tech savvy. The wiki on voip.ms gives you all the settings you’ll need. Hey sell one with two ports too if you need a second line.
Grandstream HandyTone HT486 Analog Telephone Adapter https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B007S6OPOG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_FrtXBbTCQY4QP
Hardware:
SIP Software:
VoIP Server:
Trunking:
We use a company called Skyswitch.
They're really good as far as call quality. They've also had no outages in the last 4-5 years we've used them (at least in our area).
We primarily use Cisco SPA 112 as the ATA for residential customers and Polycom VVX 410/411 for businesses.
I have no experience with Google voice though.
Have you tried a service like this? I use it as a backup landline and it works great!
OBi100 VoIP Telephone Adapter and Voice Service Bridge
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LO098O/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
I use an Obihai device with Google Voice http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_1?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1373909268&sr=1-1. There were some issues with setup at first, something about too many signals at once but I changed some settings and adjusted my QoS so that VOIP was a priority and it worked fine. I wasn't about to pay $10 more a month for a mobile unit, so I was willing to walk away (previous owner had it installed before we bought the house) if my setup wasn't functioning.
I picked up an Obi for about $40. You'll need a fast/reliable internet for the Obi to work. Basically you'll transfer/port over your home phone number to Ring.To (a free VOIP service). Then subscribe to Anveo E911 service for about $13 year. Once the porting of your home number is complete (usually takes 5-10 business days) you'll have a VOIP land line for $13/year plus the initial cost of the Obi. There were a couple hiccups in the beginning but it's all been sorted now. With Ring.To it's free local and long distance calls but no international calls (I use my cellphone plan to make international calls).
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O
The way I cut my cable bill from $120/month to $46/month was by purchasing an Obi for home phone, cut TV and use OTA antenna channels combined with a Roku (subscribed to netflix/hulu plus/amazon/HboGo etc) and purchased my own cable modem instead of paying the monthly fee.
Sign up for a Google Voice account, Pay $20 to have the # ported to Google Voice, Ask her to get one of these for $40. Once setup, She can use it as her land line anywhere she goes (with an internet connection).
Not so sure about flipping the # back to a cell # when she gets back though.
I have a ting account with 5 lines for people in my family that want a smartphone but don't use it enough to justify a major carrier sized bill. I make sure that everyone's number is ported to google voice so that all txt messages don't cost extra. I have not found a smooth way to switch between making call over wifi and cellular. Additionally any voip app I've used has always been a major battery suck since they depend on the wifi always being on.
One potential solution you may be interested in is to purchase an obitalk voip adapter.
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372562300&sr=8-1&keywords=obi100
This would allow a corded phone to make and receive calls on the same google voice number the android phone uses. There wouldn't ever be voice charges for call made from the obi device as long as google keeps call to the US free.
what about this one
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O
Just installed an Obi:
http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371821467&sr=8-1&keywords=obi
Free phone service if you already pay for internet. Nice to have when your cell phone dies or you are in the basement with 1/2 bar.
For that, you may need to buy a separate phone modem. I believe it depends on which VOIP service you have. If you have comcast, I don't know if they let you use any old voice modem. I use a service called voip.ms, and they let you bring your own device. I have this one, and it works fine for under $30.
If you are going to be at a place where you are hooking up new phone service, you might want to consider other solutions which I hear are extremely easy to set up, and very cheap (basically free plus taxes) such as [Ooma free telephone service]
(https://smile.amazon.com/Ooma-Telo-Free-Phone-Service/dp/B00I4XMEYA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1512014457&sr=8-5&keywords=voip+adapter)
Buy some sort of separate VOIP device and attach it to your internet if you're not attached to your phone number. I just had the same issue, cable modems with phone ports are crazy expensive, but I was looking to cut back from Time Warner. I bought an Obi100 and set it up with Google Voice, but may look into a different provider if Google makes it not free, depending on the rates they charge. Obi100 on Amazon. Otherwise, you'll need to pick up a modem that has telephony ports on it like this one - the key is to look for the word telephony and see if it mentions VOIP and has phone slots on the back: DOCSIS 3.0 modem with telephony. Depending on your internet speed you could maybe buy a DOCSIS 2 modem, but the minor savings won't buy you much future forward time. I think any of the Motorolla surfboard modems are valid with TWC's service, truth be told anything should work but they do have some compatibility lists somewhere. All you have to do is call them and give them the MAC address and it's ready to go.
Honestly instead of a magicjack I would go with an Obihai...
I picked up the obi100 from amazon for $35 (http://www.amazon.com/OBi100-Telephone-Adapter-Service-Bridge/dp/B004LO098O/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1321670753&sr=1-2-catcorr) no referral link btw
It's awesome... first it's completely compatible with google voice.. so I can set google voice as service provider 1 (which enables free incoming and outgoing calls using google voice.. using a regular phone handset) then I used VOIP.MS for provider 2 (The device supports 2 providers).. threw $25 on the account and activated e911... programmed the obi100 to route 911 calls through provider 2 and everything else through provider 1... also picked up a toll free DID (in dial) number (just in case I ever have to use a payphone.. can use attendant to place outgoing calls on my voip through a 1-800.. and also for people to call me toll free) ....
So now.. for a total investment of $60, I have completely free phone service (until google ever changes it.. and even then I can use voip.ms for crazy cheap prices, less than 1c a minute).. fully functional 911 service going to my address, a toll free inbound number I can receive calls on or call to make outgoing calls from whatever supports toll-free calling...
One of the best investments i've made in a long time, you should check it out.. I have no idea how they got the device to allow outgoing calls using google voice (uses the gmail interface somehow.. but doesn't require your computer to even be on..)
Awesome piece of tech, the obi110 has an extra port to be connected to the POTS system as well, if you wanted to integrate that into it.. but that's not even remotely required.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004LO098O/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1420250647&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SY200_QL40 I could sell you one of these OP
use MagicJack for each landline, I've used it for years and works great, only $35 per year per line