- Sun 17th Jan 2016, 16:22
#3832
Current setup is Plusnet Fibre Broadband Unlimited (about 57Mbps down and 18Mbps up) with a 22 ping. 1 base and 1 additional BT Studio 4100 handsets. Main phone line junction box in upstairs bedroom with a phone extension run downstairs into the hall where the phone base station is connected. There is also a data extension kit run through the wall directly into the next bedroom where I have my home office / entertainment suite where I spend the majority of my time at home. In the office I have my dsl-ac68u modem/router (router mode only) connected to the data extension kit box. I also have an additional 8 port netgear unmanaged switch. I also have a raspberry pi2 which until recently was being used as a gitlab server however I've recently moved that my main pc in a virtual machine. My main pc runs Ubuntu 15.10 linux and my laptop antergos linux. This all makes me sound more technical than I really am. I do a lot of copying and pasting
Looking at things I'm thinking I will need Obihai 200 (can't envisage needing two connections) with line adapter. I will then need to run an phone extension kit from the main socket into the office so that I can place the Obihai near my router. Having said that from reading things do I need some sort of special cable as the connection of the back of the device is US style and if so what is it that I need and does it come in long cables or will I have to fit a box in my room and then use another lead between the extension box and the device? So basically swapping the base and additional handset locations.
I will be getting a Post Office Line Rental Saver deal which works out at £12 per month and includes weekend calls as standard (£2.50 extra and I can evenings and weekends) which is a significant saving on my current TalkTalk package which is nearly £23 per month. I mention this because that means some times it will be better to route calls through the normal landline service and other times through VOIP. I believe you cannot automate this with the Obihai however I have a raspberry pi 2 going spare as I've recently moved my last project off it on it's own VM on my main computer and I've seen that there is RasPBX which might allow me to do that if I did get my setup working and wanted to refine things a bit more. Is this possible?
Any comments or opinions on my proposal?
Looking at things I'm thinking I will need Obihai 200 (can't envisage needing two connections) with line adapter. I will then need to run an phone extension kit from the main socket into the office so that I can place the Obihai near my router. Having said that from reading things do I need some sort of special cable as the connection of the back of the device is US style and if so what is it that I need and does it come in long cables or will I have to fit a box in my room and then use another lead between the extension box and the device? So basically swapping the base and additional handset locations.
I will be getting a Post Office Line Rental Saver deal which works out at £12 per month and includes weekend calls as standard (£2.50 extra and I can evenings and weekends) which is a significant saving on my current TalkTalk package which is nearly £23 per month. I mention this because that means some times it will be better to route calls through the normal landline service and other times through VOIP. I believe you cannot automate this with the Obihai however I have a raspberry pi 2 going spare as I've recently moved my last project off it on it's own VM on my main computer and I've seen that there is RasPBX which might allow me to do that if I did get my setup working and wanted to refine things a bit more. Is this possible?
Any comments or opinions on my proposal?
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