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I don't have your ATA, I have an OBi... but, for what it's worth, what I did on my ATA was to set it as dynamic (DHCP) but it was in the router's settings whereby I assigned a static IP for the MAC address of my ATA. It works fine as a result. If I did it the other way around, and went into the ATA'...

Ok, I think I solved this on my own... the short 1 second buzz noise I hear is caused by me picking up the phone during mid-ring, and the ring voltage gets erroneously transferred from the phone's ringer to the earpiece of the phone. Some say the solution is to play around with the OBI's ATA's ring ...

I can confirm, you add funds to the desktop app (even if you are using an ATA).
I know this, because I have an ATA device (OBI) and I added funds to the desktop app (for long distance), and I did the $5 auto top-up method, and it works fine... I can now make long distance calls

When my phone rings, and I pick it up, I hear through the phone's earpiece a quick 1-2 second loud buzzing noise, and thereafter, the call works perfectly fine. I didn't have this problem when I originally used the FPL assigned phone number but only later when that FPL number got changed over to my ...

I couldn't say as I've got my Obi100 hooked up only to vtech cordless phones from one base station.
However, I gather that the Obi100 has a 5 REN (Ringer Equivalence Number), which should power up to 5 wired traditional bell phones.
Source: http://www.obihai.com/docs/OBi100DS.pdf

Hi, I am new to this forum and also to Freephoneline. I thought I would share with others my positive experience with signing up to Freephoneline. When I called Freephoneline to get set up, I didn't have to wait long to speak to a customer service agent. Maybe a few minutes at most. That is a good s...