good morning YouTube so this just came in the mail the other day is the part number
OB i-20 - let's see we got the North America version that sounds good so I ordered this
from B&H photo so this is a small phone adapter so this is their - line version so I've got a
phone and a fax number with my business and then this plugs into your internet connection 12 volt
DC power this is basically set up to work with Google Voice so I'm in the process of switching
all my business phone from Comcast business class phone service over to Google Voice so
this will be my new business telephone system anyway I thought I'd show you that I got to go
plug it in to the network and see if it all works okay YouTube I wanted to check out the
12 volt adapter here that comes with the Obi 2:02 phone adapter and looks like with nothing
plugged in it's under 0.2 Watts it's like it's just sitting there at zero so I have the Obi
how I box right here let's plug that in and see what the meter goes up to okay that's pretty good
1.2 now I don't have anything plugged into it there's no data connections so it looks
like about 1/5 of 1.6 watts okay here we got a Ethernet and I plug that into the internet
side let's see what happens there 1/8 and it looks like about it jump in beat oh there we go
about 5 watts when it booted up and now it's like it was a 2 and a half there roughly and then back
to 1.6 so that must be kind of the standby power right there point six watts two and a half might
be the operating power when it's actually up and running so I just wanted to show you the
power consumption on that okay YouTube this is the Aris digital phone box that I had with my
Comcast business class phone service I guess it can support up to four phones I had two phone
lines on this box and then normally you would plug it into your cable here I don't have a cable
extension long enough to reach up here to get some activity on it I did plug in the ethernet cable
like I did on the OB 2:02 box so let's turn on the power here and see what kind of power consumption
we have you can see we've got some blinking LEDs and we're using about 6.6 watts I believe this box
has a battery in it a small backup battery to keep it powered because it'll stay on even if
you unplug the power for a while yeah it's kind of jumping around as its booting up there but
it's definitely using more power than the OB so you're looking at about five watts of additional
power for this box and it gets pretty hot you can feel it right in here it's it's noticeably warm I
am packing this up and I'm going to take it back to the Comcast store today they finished porting
my numbers so this box is no longer active should be saving me about $85 a month to get rid of this
box so I'm gonna be saving 5 watts of power and it doesn't sound like a lot but if you add that
up over a month that's close to four kilowatt hours in a month versus the little OB box and
this one just has a hundred twenty volt plug it's got a built-in power supply the OB 2:02 box has 12
volt DC so I can power the 12 volt DC off my solar battery bank and have infinite amount of battery
backup time quick clear this one I I don't know how long this one lasts off a power maybe thirty
minutes or whatever it's not very heavy yeah so this one's actually it's a little over a pound
it's about twenty nine ounces so there must be a moderate battery in here but let's see yeah you
can see I don't know if that shows up here you can see the box is still running even though I
don't have a power cord in there yeah I imagine this one is just more complicated because it's
got the power supply the battery and then it also has to have a cable data receiver plus like I say
I don't know what the internet on this one does I don't know if this is input and output or are
these two separate inputs because when they install this they just put a splitter in my
incoming cable hook this up and then also hooked up the business gateway this wasn't used at all
and the interesting thing is so this has cable plus Ethernet and then the phone lines my new
business gateway has cable it has four Ethernet ports and it also has four phone ports so I don't
know why they make you have a separate box for the phone when the the cable modem gateway box
has phone as well yeah really strange but in a way that's going back I'll update says I get a
little more information but for now I guess I'm off of Comcast voice actually the one thing I
did want to do was I wanted to thank Comcast for missing up their whole business internet
migration because they're now charging for voicemail that finally got me motivated to
go through the week-long hassle of getting my number off of this and over to Google Voice and
the OB so it was Comcast's bumbling of their migration that motivated me to finally do this
been looking at doing this for a couple of years like they say if it's not broken don't fix it
well it finally got broken by their bumbling mismanagement they're moving all of this stuff
off of Comcast over to Microsoft Office 365 and now they're charging for all of these features
that they used to include so thank you Comcast for lighting the fire underneath get me going so
yeah I'll post any update videos over here on the left side and if you have any comments or
questions post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching okay so just a quick
size comparison this is the Comcast digital phone box and this is the OB hi OB two zero two two line
phone box I have my phone and fax plugged in there and then it's got Ethernet and 12-volt power and
then that's the old Comcast box 1.6 watts and 6.6 I just to show you the size comparison there