Poly (Plantronics + Polycom) OBiWiFi5G USB USB Wi-Fi Accessory for VoIP Adapters (1517-49585-001)

I've owned the Obi202 for years now but the cat 5 connection was messing with my xfinity router's wifi connection. This was easy to connect and works flawlessly. I recommend this product.

I use on my Polycom voip phone, and it works great - as if the phone was hard-wired. Never lets me down. I am on the phone for extended calls, and I very rarely experience any call drops. No more than I would when I am hard-wired to the router.

I discovered this OBiWiFi5G USB dongle while looking for wireless connectivity options for my OBi200 analog telephone adapter (ATA). I've been using Google Voice for about 15 years and began using the OBi200 with Google Voice in 2018. The OBi200 needed to be tethered to my router with an Ethernet cable and, unfortunately, this also meant that my analog cordless telephone base station needed to be close to the OBi200 because of the analog telephone cord connection. The OBiWiFi5G enabled me to relocate the OBi200 to a more convenient location with my analog cordless telephone base station.Installation and setup of the OBiWiFi5G USB dongle was a snap. The ability to configure the OBiWiFi5G USB dongle on the 5GHz radio band was particularly useful as I strive to phase out devices on my home WiFi network using the 2.4GHz band. The OBiWiFi5G USB dongle plugs directly into the USB port on the back of the OBi200. The OBi200 recognizes the dongle immediately. Because my OBi200 was already connected to my home network via Ethernet cable, I was able to log into the OBi200 via a web browser and bring up the Polycom-branded configuration screen. The OBiWiFi configuration option is the second choice down the left side of the web page. After entering my WiFi configuration options and rebooting my OBi200, I was able to unplug the Ethernet cable and voila, the OBi200 was now connected via WiFi. One thing of note though... The middle green LED (there are three) on the OBi200 will no longer illuminate when connected via WiFi. This is because the middle LED shows Ethernet connectivity only. Once the Ethernet cable is unplugged, only the left and right green LEDs will illuminate when the OBi200 is functioning properly. The OBiWiFi5G USB dongle has a tiny blue LED on it that flickers to show network activity. The blue circle in the uploaded picture shows the OBiWiFi5G USB dongle in action on my OBi200 next to the analog cordless telephone base station.This is definitely a legacy implementation as Google Voice can no longer be configured with OBi analog telephone adapters. Google has not committed to this arrangement for any length of time, but I continue to enjoy free home VoIP telephone service for the cost of my Internet connection until Google drops this arrangement.Thank you for reading my remarks!

For a smaller office where people have to wear many hats and move around, having a desk phone that just requires power to operate is great! Call quality is perfect and the setup is really simple. You may ask, why not use a cell phone and just forward your calls to that? We’ll this way I don’t lose caller ID and I get to leverage all the features of my phone system. Totally worth it!

Easy setup and worked right away on my Polycom 450 VoIP phone

It works, but it's very weak. I have a unifi u6-pro about 12 feet away from it, and it still doesn't get a great connection.Lowering this to 1 star, because they continually stop working. I've purchased 6 of these and 3 of them have stopped working randomly. 2 of them worked fine until we swapped them to other phones and now they won't find any networks. It's almost as if they are locked to the first device they are used on or something.

Using the WiFi dongle I was able to place my VOIP phones in locations that would have been restrictive to run ethernet cabling typically used for the connection. Very pleased with the performance of these dongles. Quality and performance are right on par with a wired connection. These are game changers for typically wired phones.

We just switched over to a new phone system using Polycom desk phones and having this wireless option is going to work well for us. Currently, we're only testing with this module and it's been mostly reliable. Voice quality has been good. Easy to install... We have had to restart the phone a few times when it lost connection to Wi-Fi, but that's infrequent enough to not be an issue so far.We will be using these a couple months from now with employees working out of home offices where wired network isn't an option.