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I have received my Siemens C475IP phones today, impressed so far. I have them working with my BT POTS line and with sipdiscount but I can't get them set up with sipgate. I suspect it's just finger trouble but could do with some help. The fields that the VOIP set up on the C475IP wants a- Authentication Name: Authentication Password:

Anyone use PBXes here. They appear to have been down since this morning. DF

I had Caller ID presentation working just fine when dialling to both land-line and mobile number but recently I find that my Caller ID only presents itself when calling a land-line. Calling a mobile number presents itself as a "private number". I am using voipcheap.com with registered Caller IDs. Has anyone else experienced similar issues and/or found a fix? Thanks - Cheers from Mike

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I have an incoming number set for my voipcheap service, but it only rings when using their windoze app and not when using sip. The sip says that it is 'registered' and I can make calls ok. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the incoming number to work using sip, and if so, how?

For over two years now I've been using an SPA3000 with voip.co.uk with no problem. I have not used BT during this time, but now that free calls are available evening and week-ends with BT, whereas they are still 1ppm with voip.co.uk I have set up the SPA so that I can make calls via BT when I need to. The trouble is I cannot get the quality right.

I have recently installed ADSL on our business phone line and have the BT provided "Business Hub" as the router, it's a 2Wire router. I wasn't aiming to use the VOIP through this router as it's really only a backup ADSL and our main ADSL connection is Enta and uses a Speedtouch 716WL router. However, I'm having problems getting the VOIP on the Speedtouch working (see my other posting about...

I have a Siemens S450IP and it normally dials out on one of my VOIP connections (Voiptalk.org). If my wife calls our doctor's, which has some fancy pbx, after a few seconds of talking to the receptionist it drops out to an engaged tone. This is very repeatable, and is somewhat anoying. Today she was getting *really* cross so I said to force it out over BT. She did this and of course it was...

The C475IP (from the previous thread) seems to have so much going for it that I think I'll be buying some. One question that occurs to me, which might make it even *better*. If I set the answerphone so that it works for only some of the numbers then, presumably, I don't have the problem of answerphone activation whether I like it or not on the other numbers. Is that correct? If so it gives me...

I set up a VOIP account a while ago (like months, even a year or so) with sipdiscount.com, it worked fine and we used it for some calls. It's been unused for a while though and when we tried to use it yesterday it didn't work. I've looked at all the obvious things that I can think of:- My account at www.sipdiscount.com still works, I can log in and I have some credit still.

I've a slight problem using Voipfone / VM 2M / PAP2T / BT DECT phones. The volume of the voice of the person calling is very loud (almost deafening if they speak up or LOL) also, they complain of hearing an echo when they speak. There is no volume control for the handset, so is there a PAP2T setting I could adjust? TIA Chris.

A work colleague wants to start using voip over her cable broadband and eventualy cancel her BT line rental. I use voip.co.uk myself but as they are not currently taking residential customers we are looking for other recommendations. Sipgate is not an option as she will need to be able to port her BT number over once the account is up and running. Thoughts and recommendations would be most...

I use Justvoip via Voxalot so Ithere is no problem with the IP staying the same in order to qualify for the inclusive 'free minutes'. I am about to set up an SPA-3102 for a relative who intends to retain his cable telephone line as a back up and to use mostly for incoming calls. It would seem logical that the minimum links in the voip chain would yield the best reliability - i.e. to use justvoip...

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Just looking at the Fritz 7270 which is available in Germany and a few other (annex B) countries. I know it is annex B and therefore cannot be used for DSL in UK, but just wondering if it is otherwise suitable for use in the UK. It looks really good as it has inbuilt DECT and answerphone, fax capabilities, and media server if you hang a hard drive on it. Oh and I forgot VPN (not sure if...

I am waiting for my MAC from Pipex with the intention of transferring to O2 which has just become available on my exchange. I currently use VOIP via a Fritz Box 7140, which works very well and prefer not to use the O2 router provided (speedtouch 780wl with propriety O2 software) which I understand would not be suitable for us as we use more than one VOIP provider.

Since v20 seems that SIP no longer works properly if the WiFi Access Point is already active. Anyone know how (if it's even possible) to resolve this problem?

I have a Sipura 2000 connected to a Netgear WGT 624 router, and the dect phone that is plugged into the Sipura is a Philips SE 4351. The handset backlight on the phone is supposed to switch off after 20 seconds of no key pressing or activity, but remains on all the time, therefore draining the battery very quickly. I tried a second handset and this did not make any difference, and it is the...

Hi All, I've just started using my SPA3102, and wasn't impressed with both the sound quality of an incoming PSTN call - I don't know if the person on the other side was using a poor cordless phone (?) - and an outgoing call to a mobile in a diferent country - not the easiest scnearios, I know... Still, I've changed "Jitter buffer adjustment" from "up and down" to "up only" - trying to increase...

I could not find the SPA-400 user manual on the internet, and before buying one I need to check something. On a SPA 3100 (same as SPA 3102 but without a router) you can forward a call from PSTN to VOIP and select a "on-hook while calling VOIP" field in the config menus (this is only in the latests firmware releases). Does someone now if the same can be done on the SPA-400 ? Or if someone...