@scottalanmiller Not at all. You set the BLF so that it doesn't matter which extension they are on, people still see you as on the phone. When the press the BLF to call you - it calls in on your primary. There's lots you can do with it and its all about making it easier for the user. They don't want to bother with pressing an extra button / code to dial out on their direct line.

@scottalanmiller If you ever have a client that has both the office line, and a direct extension, you can find a need for 2 lines. Sometimes they want to call out as the office, but other times they want to dial out as their direct line DID.

Is anyone having issues with connecting to Zoho Cliq server?

@scottalanmiller I've never really liked that business model. I need my clients to be successful and grow their business. That's why we charge them very little to get up and running, usually just the hard cost of the phones, because then we charge them for the phone service, such that we get to have them as clients for years with a nice small return monthly over many years that will equal that 5K number or more. I'd guess his 5k box doesn't come with a ton of support and maintenance either?

@scottalanmiller - OK have to know ... what exactly happened? I thought he only sold FreePBX setups and how could he set that up costing $5K unless its the cost of phones that ran it up.

@Pete-S look up youtube videos by Lawrence Systems. I think he does a great job of explaining things and is where I turned to when I first started using them.

@WLS-ITGuy

It was pretty F'ing funny. I knew it would happen and I just blamed - Hey - I have to test out all the potentials. Then followed it up by how can we expect the kids if we don't set the example.

As far as locking things down, it hard, because then they say they need to do research for a project and such. Keeping an eye on them and reviewing the history and good communication skills is important.

I've installed Circle which allows to set time constraints and such. It also has safety measures for websites visited, but whether its enough I think depends on the kids using it. Boy did my wife get pissed when I set her to a max of 7 hours of being on the internet and she used it by 5pm LOL.

@scottalanmiller

My reason for asking is kids school units and wanting to have controls. I just installed circle for the house - great for controlling online time for kids. Would be great if I could convert a win laptop to a chromebook that allowed the installation of the android circle app so that I could monitor more closely what they are doing on their computers. Free allows me to see how much time they spend on each app as well as their browsing history.

Has anyone ever turned a Win Laptop into Chrome? https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/13/how-to-turn-your-old-slow-laptop-into-a-sleek-chromebook/