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

Good quality product that allows me to use my telephone collection. Works great.

It didnt come with any phone cords.

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.

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.

Bought this to make a small intercom system to connect the house and outbuildings but found it won't ring my older series 2500 and 3554 phones. It will ring some of the newer non-bell ringer type phones, and they'll all dial, but it looks to not have the correct line voltage and pattern to trigger the old bells. Not a big deal, it was a fun project.

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.

I bought this device for one reason: to stop robocallers. And It does that very well! Although we rarely use it, we wanted to keep our landline phone because it’s a number we’ve had for over 30 years. The problem is, it rings dozens of times a day with robocallers. I’ve tried various blocking services, but none are worth the cost. What I decided to do was install a device that asks the caller to dial a code. Robocallers will have no way to respond to this, but live humans will.I do not use any of the extension features of this PBX device. All I did was plug this into my incoming phone line and then plug the feed to the rest of the house wiring into extension port 2. I then put an automated attended greeting on the system that says something like, “If you’re not a telemarketer and with to talk to us, press 2.” If the caller does press 2, it transfers and the house phones ring. If not, the call is disconnected. The system does exactly this and has stopped ALL robocalls. In fact, I have had only one live telemarketer bold enough to press 2 and get through.The only annoyance with this device is that it does not support caller-ID. Note that there is a more expensive model that does, but this particular model does not. It mentions caller-ID in the documentation, but it is only to display the internal extension number if you have it setup with multiple extensions for internal calling. Since all of my house phones are tied to one extension, I do not even use that feature. Honestly, I am fine not having caller-ID because very few people call the house phone. Also, I use a Verizon Wireless Home Phone adapter, so I would only get the caller-ID number anyhow.Overall, I am very satisfied with this device and it does what I wanted – to stop all the robocalls!

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.