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Also, I think it's worth noting how great the Obihai is. It's a great little ATA with a ton of features. My only complaint is that the Obi can be confusing fro

Also, I think it's worth noting how great the Obihai is. It's a great little ATA with a ton of features. My only complaint is that the Obi can be confusing from a consumer perspective. It's not clear, from their marketing, which services are on the Obihai and which are from the operator. So yeah, the little Obihai is a kickass little adapter. It even does direct Obihai to Obihai mesh networking; a neat little trick.

masnick 13y ago
OP here. As a newcomer to VoIP, a lot of it is confusing. I don't consider myself dumb or technically naive, and I've found it pretty difficult to get my head around how all this stuff works. The Obi is so close to being an awesome consumer device and it was no problem for me to set up, but it's not at the "I can buy this for my parents" level of easy yet. (FWIW, people like windexh8er totally don't help this situation. Well-reasoned suggestions and links to good documentation would serve the community better than trollery.)
- josh2600 13y ago
  HI! If you wanna get an idea of how stuff actually works in VoIP, we cover the topics in depth every two weeks in our Expert Q&A sessions (next one is on Porting here:[0]) Here's a link[1] to 4 of the past ones so you can get an idea. We'll be publishing the videos on youtube soon. If you attend these, you'll quickly start to get a good handle on the world of communication; it's just a TON of acronyms. Here's a link to one of my favorite blogs on VoIP [2]. Hope that helps!!! [0] http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=7476736119 http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=7476736119 [1] http://blog.2600hz.com/post/52151527067/2600hz-expert-q-a-recap http://blog.2600hz.com/post/52151527067/2600hz-expert-q-a-re... [2] http://200ok.info/ http://200ok.info/
  - soccerdave 13y ago
    I would love to see videos of these sessions! I also have a pretty technical background, but a lot of the VoIP stuff I don't have a great understanding of.

masnick 13y ago

OP here. As a newcomer to VoIP, a lot of it is confusing. I don't consider myself dumb or technically naive, and I've found it pretty difficult to get my head around how all this stuff works. The Obi is so close to being an awesome consumer device and it was no problem for me to set up, but it's not at the "I can buy this for my parents" level of easy yet. (FWIW, people like windexh8er totally don't help this situation. Well-reasoned suggestions and links to good documentation would serve the community better than trollery.)

josh2600 13y ago
HI! If you wanna get an idea of how stuff actually works in VoIP, we cover the topics in depth every two weeks in our Expert Q&A sessions (next one is on Porting here:[0]) Here's a link[1] to 4 of the past ones so you can get an idea. We'll be publishing the videos on youtube soon. If you attend these, you'll quickly start to get a good handle on the world of communication; it's just a TON of acronyms. Here's a link to one of my favorite blogs on VoIP [2]. Hope that helps!!! [0] http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=7476736119 http://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=7476736119 [1] http://blog.2600hz.com/post/52151527067/2600hz-expert-q-a-recap http://blog.2600hz.com/post/52151527067/2600hz-expert-q-a-re... [2] http://200ok.info/ http://200ok.info/
- soccerdave 13y ago
  I would love to see videos of these sessions! I also have a pretty technical background, but a lot of the VoIP stuff I don't have a great understanding of.