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The best investment in VOIP. Also - no more electronic noise with new firmwares. BTW, GV is still working fine (June 13, 2014)
I had an OBi110 and soon after buying that I heard that OBi202 is going to be released, so I passed on the OBi110 to a friend.
This does the job as beautifully as OBI110 did, with great feature of two lines on one little amazing gizmo that OBi202 is. Everything was setup within 5 minutes and it's been great for the short 2 weeks I have had it.
Only small hitch I have had is that it produces this little electronic noise which I am told is from the conductors inside, perhaps if I move it away from me (it' at 2 feet right now) it will improve.. It's not too bad but it's there, comes and goes.
Have not tried fax yet, but love the clean little gizmo that this is.
Edit: Actually the noise is becoming annoying. I still haven't gotten rid of my VOIP.. Will call OBI tomorrow again, and might return if they say this is expected. OBI110 never had this
Edit2: I just hooked up 2nd GV line to Obi202. It did not take the 2nd line easily, i.e., although I added all of GV infor just like the 1st GV line Obi202 somehow did not connect 2nd GV account. I called the Support and the folks there were extremely friendly, called me back in 15 minutes and told me they fixed the setup at their end on my ObiTalk setup page. It's been working like a champ since then. I am changing my rating to a 4 Star now as the slight noise is still slightly unacceptable.
BTW, I also transferred my VOIP line to T-Mo and then to GV, I would say it was well worth the $20 + .99 cents I spent on the whole transfer process :)
Edit3: I am coming back to make it a 5 star review. Afetr moving my obi device behind my monitor somewhere with other 'stuff' like KVM, USB hub etc etc.. I do not hear the noise any more at all. Maybe it was the angle where the obi202 was placed before that caused the pitch the way it was coming. Wife agrees too that there is no noise anymore.
And both mine and my wife's GV numbers on this one little device are going great. There is a very ocacsional lag but I believe that is because our broadband (though 35mbps) gets overloaded every now and then with the Google TVs, and laptop, tablet and what not runing all the time :)
Edit4: I had to come back and change the subjct line, there is no more electronic noise with the new firmware.
Highly recommended !!
Edit 5: Feb 3rd, 2014
Sadly, after 2 years of me using Obihai devices Googe Voice support will be removed from all non Google devices and services and will also impact Obihai.
I have used this device as a work horse for 2-3 years; and just love it. I will find something else to use with it; but wanted to make sure I add this latest info for those looking for GV supported devices. Sad truth is that GV support will be gone for all devices.
Edit 6 (June 13, 2014)
In spite of the expected disruption of GV on Obi, it is still working fine as always. No changes, no disruption.
I plan to keep using GV on Obi (as I use both lines of this device with two GV lines). Should it stop I will move t osome cheap VOIP provider and still be able to use Obi.. Love that this device is not locked to any one provider :)
May 2012 · Office Products · verified purchase