bridonca wrote:I do not know of any 3 line ATA devices, certainly nothing under $100, but there are a lot of 2 line ata devices. The best are Obihai devices.
The Obihai 200 has one line, the Obihai 202 has 2 lines, (could be the reverse, I forget) so get both and you got 3 lines. Each device can handle 4 VOIP providers, so you can have 3 freephoneline, and a Google Voice account for the free Canada US calling. Both ATA devices should cost around $100 or less
You need a separate email address for each freephoneline account. so you need 3 email addresses.
Jake wrote:If you are wanting to juggle that many numbers, I would suggest looking into a PBX (they are not as scary as you may think). You can run them on may things, like old computer that you may have in the basement, or I have mine running on a Raspberry PI (cost around $35 I think).
From there you can manipulate the numbers and lines however you want. You will still need at least one ATA to connect your phones to the system, but you could easily make all 4 phones ring on one of the jacks. I have 2 * 2 jack ATAs here to play with (4 jacks in total). One is dedicated for my daughter so she doesn't bother the rest of the phones. I actually have it set up to ring all the house phones once, and then just on her phone to give her a heads up someone is calling her. The other 3 basically work as one, but what it does do is allow us to make several incoming and outgoing calls at the same time (even on the same number).
It's not generally just a case of clicking something and it is all set up, but if you don't mind rolling up your sleeves a bit it can be quite fun. If you have an old computer kicking around it could be worth spending an evening tinkering with as the software is free.
What Bridonca was saying above is you will have to get enough ATAs to cover all the lines you want to use, so if you want 4 lines you would buy 2 ATAs and set up one line on each line of the ATA. This would mean you have to have 4 different phones plugged in though.
It all depends on what you are trying to do at the end of the day. If you just have 4 numbers you need to keep, but you only really have one main number now, just daisy chain forwarding the numbers in the online admin to the main one so:-
Number A forwards to Number B, which forwards to Number C, which forwards to Number D (which is your main number). You set Number D up on your ATA then no matter what number is called it will ring Number D on your ATA. All outgoing calls will obviously be Number D. For this you would just need to port all the number to FPL (or Fongo) and buy one unlock key for Number D.
As I say, it all depends on what you are trying to get out of it.
bridonca wrote:You can get a prepaid phone service from Speakout for $25 a year
bridonca wrote:The best are Obihai devices.
curt wrote:As mentioned, I bought a OBihai 202 and set it up with a SIP number from Freephoneline (Number A). (Number A was my Bell Canada number that I transferred to Freephoneline and then bought the SIP Unlock Key.)
I transferred a second number (Number B) from Bell Canada to Freephoneline. I do not want to pay for a SIP Unlock key for this number. I just want to forward the calls to Number A. However, when I try to do this (by setting on "Always Call Forward" and entering Number A as the "Follow Me Number"), I get the following error message:
This number is already used as a FollowMe number by someone else
I am using this number with Freephoneline, but I have NOT used it as a FollowMe number anywhere.
How do I forward Number B to Number A (both of which are with Freephoneline)?
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