What Are You Doing Right Now
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
I hve heard of them,... but never looked at them. Had Vonage for years, and when we moved into the house, didn't renew. That was eleven years ago. We have our mobile phones and that is it.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
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I can understand why non-IT people don't do a PBX for their own home, but for IT people I pretty much only understand doing nothing at all or going all out. Your phones are one of the few home production systems that you have to run. We make such a big deal of our home labs and normally we have to contrive any use case for them (when do we REALLY need a wiki at home, or Active Directory or even backups?) but phones, firewalls and mass media storage are the exceptions where we can run production, heavily used things at home to get experience that rivals office experience. Why pass it up?
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@scottalanmiller Considering after my initial setup, setting it up at my relatives places so we can video conference
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Considering after my initial setup, setting it up at my relatives places so we can video conference
With your own PBX? Yeah, that's an awesome free additional feature.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it. Only one phone though.
My doc uses it. It's not only one phone. If you connect it to the wiring in your house, you can enable all phones in the house. He's had it for several years as a secondary line. He seems to like it.
This is akin to Magic Jack - I used that back when it was new - it worked OK.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it. Only one phone though.
My doc uses it. It's not only one phone. If you connect it to the wiring in your house, you can enable all phones in the house. He's had it for several years as a secondary line. He seems to like it.
This is akin to Magic Jack - I used that back when it was new - it worked OK.
That's still one phone, it's just one analogue phone and once you go to old school analogue phones you can put as many handsets on the line as you want. But pick them all up at once and you realize they are all the same phone. Not separate phones like we have in the digital or VoIP worlds. Just lots of instances of the same phone.
And requires you to stay on analogue phones!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
Are you making fun of me?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
Are you making fun of me?
LOLNo, it actually is.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
Are you making fun of me?
LOLNo, it actually is.
The router between ooma and the internet, if it has throughput problems, then it's time for an upgrade... I definitely don't want all of my traffic being reported to ooma.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
Are you making fun of me?
LOLNo, it actually is.
The router between UMA and the internet, if it has throughput problems, then it's time for an upgrade... I definitely don't want all of my traffic being reported to UMA.
What is UMA?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
Are you making fun of me?
LOLNo, it actually is.
The router between UMA and the internet, if it has throughput problems, then it's time for an upgrade... I definitely don't want all of my traffic being reported to UMA.
WANs aren't like LANs. The "upgrade your LAN until you never run low on bandwidth" issue does not apply to WAN links. LANs can pretty trivially go to 20Gb/s and if you need 40Gb/s you can afford to do it. And you can get to 80Gb/s even on a personal budget. No one needs more than 80Gb/s and can't afford to get more.
WAN is totally different. Often the fastest links aren't that fast and even really fast links can pretty easily get bottlenecked. Even here on fiber with 120Mb/s, we can casually saturate that. There is nothing faster in 99% of Texas. So QoS still matters. Maybe if you get to 1Gb/s links you can start to buy more bandwidth to get past issues, but realistically you want QoS on your telephony WAN links if you can do it. And QoS is a touted feature of Ooma.
Getting "enough" bandwidth to make QoS unneeded or rarely needed is a good step, but even with fast links you want it when possible. Is it the solution to all of your problems? Definitely not.
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Mother-in-law said yes to the ERX. Sometimes life isn't so bad
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mother-in-law said yes to the ERX. Sometimes life isn't so bad
Going to put in Unifi APs, too?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever use ooma for VoIP at home? My friend does and swears by it. Apparently you pay for the appliance and like 2-3$ a month for the taxes of having a phone number and that's it.
So cheap to have a full PBX, as IT folks, why consider anything else? voip.ms plus a hosted FreePBX instance is super powerful, great learning, so many more features and so important for your career, why look at consumer services when you can go to full enterprise for barely more money (couple extra dollars?)
I wouldn't buy it but i think its kind of nice for non-tech people to come into this century
Only concern is that it is a router and takes over your network.
Well, it's suppose to, but often does work behind a NAT router, which is what it's doing in my Doc's case.
QoS is lost when you do that, though
Are you making fun of me?
LOLNo, it actually is.
The router between UMA and the internet, if it has throughput problems, then it's time for an upgrade... I definitely don't want all of my traffic being reported to UMA.
WANs aren't like LANs. The "upgrade your LAN until you never run low on bandwidth" issue does not apply to WAN links. LANs can pretty trivially go to 20Gb/s and if you need 40Gb/s you can afford to do it. And you can get to 80Gb/s even on a personal budget. No one needs more than 80Gb/s and can't afford to get more.
WAN is totally different. Often the fastest links aren't that fast and even really fast links can pretty easily get bottlenecked. Even here on fiber with 120Mb/s, we can casually saturate that. There is nothing faster in 99% of Texas. So QoS still matters. Maybe if you get to 1Gb/s links you can start to buy more bandwidth to get past issues, but realistically you want QoS on your telephony WAN links if you can do it. And QoS is a touted feature of Ooma.
Getting "enough" bandwidth to make QoS unneeded or rarely needed is a good step, but even with fast links you want it when possible. Is it the solution to all of your problems? Definitely not.
So set QoS in the router you put between the internet and the OOMA.
