SOHO-PBX SP-208 (2 x 8) PABX Telephone Switch System Control Exchange 110V…

Makes for a great modern field phone with a few exceptions; must be powered for phones to call each other, mechanical phones do not get enough power to ring, the unit itself should be kept in a dry environment.Pros: 8 phones can be connected with their own assigned 3 digit phone number, electric phones ring loud, mic and speaker are clear, a LED lights red when a phone is off the hook, its capable of being expandable, unit is plug and play, and price is amazing for what you get.For a mechanical phone I found adding a spliter and an lan phone flasher worked okay. There is a flasher on Amazon that blinded me like a flash bang on call of duty mw so place it cautiously. Speaker quality is still poor on the mechanical phones despite all my efforts.

It's a very affordable PBX. A bit tricky to program however. I bought it to use as a robo-call blocker, which it did, however the Panasonic cordless extension phone didn't receive the caller ID information like it did when direct-connected.I returned this and bought a Sentry V2.2 call blocker instead, and discovered, per the Sentry instructions, that the caller ID issue appears to be with specific phones, e.g. the Panasonic don't receive caller ID on the other side of devices like these. The AT&T CRL82312 purchased to replace the old Panasonic and Radio Shack phones worked fine, with caller ID passing through the Sentry. Not sure if this PBX would also succeed like the Sentry but it seems possible given the Sentry experience.Note, as a call blocker, the Sentry works nicely since that solution allows callers with caller ID known to it to pass through without being prompted to press anything.

Purchased for a small office — two trunk lines, three extensions. It worked about 60% of the time. Sometimes it would pick up the trunk line; other times, it would take 5 to 10 seconds to pick up the trunk line; sometimes it would never pick up. Sometimes it let the extension phones dial out; other times you couldn't even get an internal dial tone. Sometimes calling from one extension to another worked; other times it didn't. The documentation is badly translated, apparently from Chinese to English. And when it does work, the switching mechanism is extremely loud; you can hear the relays clicking from the next room, so good luck installing it anywhere that you need to be quiet. This is basically an expensive toy. I don't know if there are any good PABXs available to the pro-sumer market, but this one isn't.

I am actually very happy with this. It is to use on a boat as an intercom and to call, and the extensions work well and work right out of the box. The only issue I did run into is that it can barely drive a bell ringing phone, so I will have to work on that, but I only have one of those, the rest have tones and work well and loud. The manual is ok, if you have some knowledge of the kinds of functions a PBX performs. I could understand if you didn't then the manual isn't going to teach you about PBXs, but so wouldn't any other PBX manual. Very happy with the purchase, and of course the price.Update: I added an Obi200 adapter to connect an outside line to Google Voice, and was up and running in 5 minutes.

This is a replacement purchase for the same model which after using it for a bit more than one year suddenly started to create a buzzing noise when you picked up the phone. As this noise remained during both incoming and outgoing calls, this rendered the appliance useless. As it otherwise served its purpose, i.e., connecting two outside lines to three extensions and enabling call transfer between the extensions (except that neither the old nor the new device pass through the caller ID information from my carrier (Verizon) to my AT&T phones), I decided to give it another try and buy it again. I hope that this one will last a bit longer, because overall I think it has a good cost/benefit ratio.

We were getting 20 to 30 robo calls a day in our shop. I installed this little device which requires the caller to select a number and our robo calls have gone from the 20 to 30 calls per day to 0 . We have had it in now for 4 month and not one robo call. Now all we get are just customer calls. Just to monitor I put a ring phone on the live line and I am still getting 20 to 30 robo calls but as soon as the system picks up on the first ring they are gone. Great little device that has saved us hours of wasted time reaching for worthless phone calls. So if you have a small business this is a must. Save you frustrations and sanity.

This device is perfect for blocking robocalls on a land line, including Ooma. Incoming calls can be directed to press a number which robo dialers can't do but humans can. A human can press the number and ring your home phone while robocalls just sit there - no ring, no message.We had been getting 3-5 robocalls a day, usually at very inopportune moments. Now only humans get through, and they're usually callers we want to speak with. Caller ID doesn't work, at least with our Ooma caller system, but that's a small price to pay.So why not 5 stars? Instructions were written by someone who failed English 101 - almost indecipherable. Fortunately, the machine's fairly easy to set up, just don't expect any help from the instructions.Others have reported long term reliability problems but it's lasted at least a week for us. When it fails we'll be back....---UPDATE---An electrical surge blew this PABX up (as did 2 AC units and multiple other electronics). Purchased a second. Setup was much easier, as I'd saved my annotated instructions.

Looks like this one is working ok. I need to program as I needed but this seller doesn't provide the password. I tried the default password (0000) but does not work.I don't know what to do.I should have bought a new one.