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Home Telephone and/or Fax
Free Home Telephone/Fax?:
Did you know you can get a local phone number (or transfer your current home phone number) and make free, unlimited calls throughout the USA? All you need is a free Google Account (e.g., you@gmail.com), a home phone, an Internet connection and a phone adapter. Your home phone plugs into your phone adapter and the phone adapter connects to your wireless router (either via cable or wifi). Then, you make calls over the Internet.
How Can I Boost My Cell Phone Signal?:
Option 1: Connect your smart phone to your wifi (Settings --> Wifi) and enable "wifi calling" (also under Settings). When you are in-range of your router's wifi you will make and receive calls over your Internet connection rather than the cellular towers. This is a great option if you have a weak cell phone signal or are on a metered plan. While on wifi calling, you generally don't use your plan data at all.
Option 2: If you don't have a smart phone (e.g., old school cell phone) or you are having problems connecting via wifi calling, contact your cellular provider and ask them about their cell phone boosters (also called femtocels). A cellular booster plugs into the back of your router and acts as a min cell phone tower in your house.
How Do I Setup Home Phone?:
Step 1: create your free Google Account. Go to https://mail.google.com and create a free Gmail account (e.g., you @gmail.com). If you already have an @gmail.com account, skip to Step 2.
Step 2: setup your free Google Voice phone number. Go to https://voice.google.com and select a phone number. If you already have Google Voice number, skip to Step 3.
Step 3: purchase the Polycom OBi200 phone adapter. If you plan on plugging the phone adapter into the back of your router with a cable, then continue to Step 4. If you plan on connecting the adapter to your router's wifi instead, you will also need the wifi dongle.
Step 4: hook everything up as instructed in the Polycom OBi200 Installation & Configuration Guide that comes with your phone adapter. Start making free calls throughout the USA!
Add Your Number To The Do-Not-Call Registry:
Go to https://www.donotcall.gov/register/reg.aspx and register your new phone number. It doesn't completely prevent you from getting solicitor calls, but it helps minimize it. You can also add your cell phone.
Solano Wireless Internet | High-Speed Internet Access, Serving Rural Northern Solano and Western Yolo Counties, California
