Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-26 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Actually, I've been looking for an alternative to Google Voicebut for a different reasonthe deprecation of XMPP. I've been using Obihai adapters to do phone service at home using Google Voice. Which has generally been okay, though the dropped calls does happen...which I hadn't really tho

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Philip J. Hollenback > > I was just talking to a friend about getting rid of the traditional pbx > in his small office of about 10 people. Is something like Callcentric's > business offering a good fi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Ed > > Edward - has anything in your network changed recently? It sounds like > you need a keep alive on a network connection. Or your broadband As described in OP, I've had problems even for inbound

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: Kevin Faulkner [mailto:kondor...@gmail.com] > > Edward have you looked at sendhub? Similar functionality (Android > integration) and they have a free tier too. Never heard of 'em. Will give 'em a try. Thanks for the suggestion. ___ Discuss mai

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Manly
A while back I did a side job installing a small PBX at a local town office. They have about 8 extensions, and they'd been using shared analog lines strung all over the place. The PBX let them put the numbers into a hunt group and set up a short menu system. I couldn't go with SIP trunking becau

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Ed
Edward - has anything in your network changed recently? It sounds like you need a keep alive on a network connection. Or your broadband connection wants to sell you SIP. without all that network neutrality I'm sure you can be more successfully monetized by those you depend on. ;) no really,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Kevin Faulkner
Edward have you looked at sendhub? Similar functionality (Android integration) and they have a free tier too. On Feb 6, 2014 9:18 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" wrote: > For the last 2-3 months, google voice has been unreliable for me, in > several various ways. I keep posting on google forum

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 01:27:09PM -0800, Philip J. Hollenback wrote: > I was just talking to a friend about getting rid of the traditional pbx > in his small office of about 10 people. Is something like Callcentric's > business offering a good fit for that? > > Or, is it better to run your own A

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Ted Cabeen
Asterisk is pretty simple to support if you layer FreePBX on top as a management interface. --Ted On 2/7/2014 1:58 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > > Philip> I was just talking to a friend about getting rid of the > Philip> traditional pbx in his small office of about 10 people. Is > Philip> something

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread John Stoffel
Philip> I was just talking to a friend about getting rid of the Philip> traditional pbx in his small office of about 10 people. Is Philip> something like Callcentric's business offering a good fit for Philip> that? Philip> Or, is it better to run your own Asterisk server? This is a great conver

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Philip J. Hollenback
I was just talking to a friend about getting rid of the traditional pbx in his small office of about 10 people. Is something like Callcentric's business offering a good fit for that? Or, is it better to run your own Asterisk server? On Fri, Feb 7, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Chris Manly wrote: > I'll al

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Chris Manly
I'll also put in a 2nd for Callcentric. I've been using it for about five years now, and I've been happy. You can have it forward/simul-ring external phones. I have it do that to the home SIP phone and both my cell phone and my wife's cell phone anytime the school district calls us (in case it's

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: g...@kurai.org [mailto:g...@kurai.org] > > I've been experimenting with asterisk and SIP trunks from callcentric. ‎You > can > also get reduced feature asterisk installs for free from pbxes.com, also have > a paid tier. I use and love callcentric. But I'm only using basic SIP clients wi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread gmd
scuss@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice > From: Chris Mosetick [mailto:cmoset...@gmail.com] > > If you have been using the Google provided GV app, that is probably the root > of your issues. Thanks, but, I have several phones, as well as android

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: Chris Mosetick [mailto:cmoset...@gmail.com] > > If you have been using the Google provided GV app, that is probably the root > of your issues. Thanks, but, I have several phones, as well as android phone with GV app installed. My big complaint has been a lot of dropped calls at precisel

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Alternative to Google Voice

2014-02-07 Thread Chris Mosetick
If you have been using the Google provided GV app, that is probably the root of your issues. I have been using a wonderful app called "Talkatone" for some time now on iOS and Android. It does use Google Voice as the back bone, which I know you said you were trying to avoid. Please note that to use