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.

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.

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.

Nice little home or small office phone system. Easy setup.

I've had this PBX for over 2 years now. My main goal was to filter out all of the con artists and robo calls. I can say that it certainly accomplished that mission. I went from getting over 20 trash calls per day to perhaps 1 every 3 months. The time and frusteration that this device has saved me is simply AMAZING! One complaint is that I have never been able to get my call waiting to work with my cordless phones. This can be annoying AF. Caller ID is not particulary good or useful either. This seems to be because my cordless phone system and the PBX are not communicating properly. Secondly the PBX won't ring older "mechanical style" phones like the classic Western Electric 2500. My understanding is that the PBX uses a different frequency than the standard American system. I believe that I can get a box to amplify the signal for $100 to make it work... I wish people would just do better engineering. I wouldn't say that setup was easy but it wasn't particularly difficult. Plan on spending time looking through the manual for codes and learning how the system works. I have peridocally gotten complaints that people couldn't get through to me. I don't know if that is the PBX or if it is the local phone system or operator error. I did reboot the system at one point and complaints seemed to disappear. I'm giving the Excelltel SOHO-PBX SP-208 4 stars because it seems to work for most of what I need with some caveats and has lasted for over 2 years. The complaints I have are with compatibility issues involving other equipment and I can't 100% fault Excelltel for that. It is the only PBX with these sorts of features in this size and price range. It is certainly worth the $90 price in my opinion. I have a small acreage and plan to eventually extend telephony to out buildings. I'll give an update if I have anything of substance to report.

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

After buying a new phone with wireless extensions this unit worked well to eliminate robo calls. Unfortunately this unit became very noisy when used. Manufactured date of June 2017 so I got about 2 years of use. To tell the truth if it only lasts a year I would buy a 3rd to avoid robo calls. Headline for initial review: "Might work for one phone" I was not able to setup the unit so any phone could answer a ring line. This made the unit useless for my purpose. The section of the manual that may have help set up the unit for group answer was not understandable. This section suffered in the Chinese to English translation. Most manual parts were half decent. Line 6 will not receive incoming call. Horrible tinny music built into the unit that plays during the period after the auto-attendant finishes and the person answers. This will not make you any friends and the ones you have will stop calling. Twenty seconds for a message is garbage for 8 phone lines. If you don’t have an initial salutation that gives you two and a half second to describe each extension. Emails to the manufacturer’s support email went unanswered.