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to share my experiences of using skype, I've discovered that the best quality connections are when both parties are using a PCI card to connect to the internet. I've found consistently that those using USB connections get bad quality lines, with the voice dropping out and distorting. This is probably because usb hogs the processor and doesn't leave much left for voip. If you're having...

Have not seen much comment on here about Freetalk. So far I have found it extremely good, very reliable, unlike Justdial and Sipgate which I have used before. It allows local dialling i.e. you do not need to dial the area code to call a local number, voicemail is good. Only things they have not got working properly are caller display to the called party displays "International" and withheld...

Anyone got the details needed to get VoipCheap working with asterisk? ta! Sparks...

FULL A-Z ROUTES avaible. If you have good UK routes, please contact me. Current top prices : Route - onpeak - offpeak - ASR France : 0.0108$ - 0.0095$ - 64% France - Paris : 0.0102$ - 0.0083$ - 63% France - Orange : 0.1052$ - 0.0777$ - 78%

Calls to France used to be free... they're 1c a minute now :-( It was good while it lasted. Dave

I have Grandstream BudgeTone 100 phone which i Use with 18866 . Is there any way that I can use the phone dialer in Win xp or some third party dialer program to dial out on that phone to avoid key presses.

Can anyone recommend a UK supplier of the IAXy?

Hi, I have been reading the threads & am thinking of getting an spa3000 but have a couple of questions. Currently I have an NTL phone/tv service, a bt line with 2M broadband and a DECT cordless phone connected to the NTL line. I want to get rid of NTL in stages. From what I understand, I can use the spa3000 and can setup a dial plan to make outgoing calls on either voip or ntl according to...

FYI Stefan Kaniuk has not had his ntl account terminated at all so s-p-o-n-i-x is totally wrong. Yes NTL have advised him from what he was telling me that he shouldnt post to usenet but you shouldn't listen to trolls like s-p-o-n-i-x or Walt.B as they have no idea whats really going on with Stefan at all. Apparently he is barred from using usenet and that is a very good thing in my opinion...

I'm planning to buy a Sipura SPA-2100 ATA from a UK supplier. Recommendations anyone? -- Ian

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Anyone know if Asterisk can handle video phones clients when acting as a SIP server?

I am NOT the seller, but I thought this may be of interest to this group, this is top of the range 2 line VoIP WiFi ADSL router worth ~£173 current bidding still below reserve. I have the HWL version, it works just fine. Regards, Martin

Whenever I try to make a Skype call I get the message "The Skype out service is temporally unavailable" It used to say "please try later" that has now been removed! Could there be a problem of anon-technical nature, I wonder? The quality is dreadful these days anyway, I am just trying to use up my credit. --

Hi I have setup a Asterisk box and am having great fun discovering what it can do etc. One question I have is how do I get a SIP provider to present multiple calls on the same PSTN number. For example caller 1 calls 01xxx xxxxxx and Asterisk answers the call, 10 seconds later caller 2 also calls but this time the SIP provider answers the call into voicemail because there is alreays caller 1 on...

Is there a way to tell the PAP2 and the SPA-3000 to treat the * key like any other key? I have set some short dial codes like *001 to rout calls through a certain providor on my asterisk box, I can dial this fine with me Budgetone 101, but as dial *00 on the PAP2 and SPA-3000 I get a N/U signal! Sparks...

Hi, When we receive an incoming call it takes asterisk upto 8 seconds to decide where to route it. This applies to pstn and voip calls. Fax detection is off. Is there anything that can be done to improve this, otherwise I'll be under pressure to dump asterisk....

I recently bought a couple of cheap IP phones from ebay. They are made by different (Chinese) manufacturers but apparently both use the PA1688 chipset. The issue is the have no sidetone, i.e. if you blow in the mouthpiece you don't hear anything in the receiver. Is this common with IP phones? POTS telephones have had sidetone for around a hundred years so it's not like it's a new requirement for...

Hi, I have seen people say this is possible, forwaring LINE2 to LINE1, internally on the PAP2, others say its not possible. Could somebody who has managed to do this let me know, and any hints as to how to get this working. Lets assume this setup: Line 1: voipbuster - for outgoing only, phone is connected to this port

is it just me or is it down for everyone ? - 50000 and 0207 numbers not working and unable to change settings on website.