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.

Works well. Has a high pitched dial tone

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.

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'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.

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.

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