This is a monthly posting giving information about the Usenet group uk.telecom.voip. If you are a new user, or even if you've been around for some time, please take a few minutes to read through the charter and bear it in mind when posting. Charter for uk.telecom.voip ===================

Having now dropped my landline service completely I find that neither SIP Discount nor VoIP Buster are working with my ATA, they were up until today. I have tested the services in software and find they will register and work with IAX but not with SIP, so it appears they have discontinued SIP.

You can become financially independant by starting your own VOIP business. http://www.voipchamps.net gives you all the details for starting a lucrative busines in the booming VOIP industry. Don't wait for the revolution to be over get in with voip now!!!

VoIP Cheap are now offering for free an incoming number. The number assigned is based on your location, therefore I now have an 0121 660 nnnn number. -- For South East Brum: http://www.south-east-birmingham.tk For half (£25) of my bonus (£50) when referred to Telewest or £5 when referred to easyMobile contact me via above site.

Okay, I have asked this before, somewhere, and I think I got an answer, but I'm buggered if I can find it anywhere! I would like to dedicate one SIP trunk as an incoming fax line - how do I tell Asterisk@home to answer the calls received on this trunk with the fax machine!? Ta, and sorry if you have already told me (where!?) Sparks...

It would appear that Xten is now 'CounterPath' (WTF?) and no longer feature X-Lite or X-Pro (only for Pocket PC). Anyone knows where downloads and particularly upgrades may be still available ? Regards, Martin

Sorry if this seems really dumb and it's possibly been answered before. I need only basic Voip facilities and I'm looking at the handsets sold by Maplin (for example) that just plug into the USB port. I have an ADSL modem (rather than a router) that's on a 2M connection. Maplin suggests Skype as a provider and indeed I've looked at that, but what other options do I have with this simple setup?...

I'm currently using a router with an ATA attached to one of its ports. Its quite bad, no QOS and the router has about died. So its time for a new router and I want to get one with built in VOIP. Has anyone any recommendations? I need a 4 port wireless router, for use with cable so no ADSL ones. The ability for it to be able to give enough QOS for voice when heavy downloads are going on is...

I topped up my Voipbuster account to 5 Euros to get the free local and national calls. I seem to have been charged 0.04 Euros for calls made to local or national calls. OK... not a kings ransom... but why am I being charged at all?? I thought the dealw as free calls to local and national?? Anyone had something similar?

This could be a long one, sorry. The question will be short, but right down at the bottom Making use of the instructions on Nerd Vittles & with a lot of help from chandave on Voxilla, I've setup Asterisk with a special Sipgate DID number. If either my wife or I call it on from our mobiles, it rings & should hang up after a couple of rings. (For some reason, it's not hanging up in this example...

Hi, I currently run a small asterisk setup on a PIII 500 (or similar) with 256mb RAM. If I moved it to 1 1.7ghz machine, with 512mb should I see an imporvement in the echo? Many thanks

Ok, I thought I had my problems with one-way audio sorted, but they've turned up again. The funny thing is, when I call through Sipgate (Line 1), everything works fine. But when I call through Sipdiscount or 1899 using the gateway accounts, the calls connect fine, but I can't get any incoming audio. I've been staring at the config pages so long now, I can't see the wood for the trees...

SPA-3000: I have voipfone as my main provider - Works well. I have voipbuster on gw4 - Works well. I've tried setting up vopitalk on gw2. I thought it would be simple but it doesn't work. When I dial option 901, which is supposed to give credit balance (of which I have none) it returns: "You have entered incorrect log-in details too many times." If I check it out by dialling an 0800 number...

Some time ago I was on hold wen I called a company, during this hold time they offerd me several options if I wanted to change the music I was listning to while I was holding (That's neat I thought)...I think it was Virgin Mobile, if my memory serves me correctly. Can we do this with AAH easily? I have had a play, and can sort of do it with digital receptionists, having seperate queues for...

Hi getting no phone or website here - is it down? cheers Roy

Like the subject says: Any comments on IPChitChat IPC320 Is it a quality hardware phone or cheap 'n' nasty? Thanks, ben.

As subject and as from today UK landline calls are 1c per minute. DF

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:43:39 +0100, wrote: How does one get into the ukcheap website I keep getting a box asking for user name and password I don't even have an account with them yet. Are you sure that you don't mean voipcheap.co.uk? btw they use IAX afaik- you can't use them with an ATA. Check out sipdiscount.com voipbuster.com

Good news - at last Sipgate and Netgear have fixed the fault that caused TA612Vs to 'drop off" the VoIP service for a few seconds every few minutes. Stephen

Okay, since VoIPDiscount have started charging, I have had another play Success!! My configurations is as follows... Asterisk@home 1.5 running on a local IP behind a router. The following ports are forwarded to the asterisk box 5060 (UDP)

I clicked on an ad for a VoIP service with webcam, headset and account with Bluetalk. There seamed to be very little detail so I followed a somewhat hidden link marked terms & conditions. It wasn't that but was the welcome screen expecting customers who had bought the product and (still without any details of the product) asked me to register. Clicking the only link on the page went to...