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Hello peeps - I am about to set sail into the secretive world of VOIP but know the square root of b*gger all about it. :-) Are there any kind souls out there who would be kind enough to please point me in the direction of anything that might work as a daft sod's guide to VOIP? All I have at the moment is a good knowledge of computers and a bog standard 18866 account.

Looking for recommendations for an ATA to install in parents' house where I will manage it remotely. Should provide POTS feedthrough so they continue using all their current handsets pretty much as they do now, with BT callerid. Would also like direct IP to IP calling. I have been recommended the SIPRA 3000. I couldn't see any mention of direct IP to IP calling in its spec though, and I found a...

Hi again VoIPers - I appreciate that this is not a VoIP question but as some of you are certainly using 1899, could you plese tell me how long it is since they stopped accepting new sign-ups? I tried to join today and got an email back from them saying the lists are closed and to wait at least six weeks before re-applying. Not good enough, I want to use their service NOW!!! :-))) Well they...

With 1899 and 18866 both going to higher than BT rates for mobile calls, and voipbuster being higher than that (19.4p/minute!) who offers the best rate now? Cheapest looks like voipfone (11p), but they have a monthly fee which offsets it (I don't make that many calls in a month, so it's quite a difference). Any better deals?

See:- http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2255 And http://www.plus.net/residential/voice/plustalk.shtml -- Mark

Hello, do someone know if there are VoIP to ISDN telephone converters ? I know there are VoIP to Analog Phones converters to use your old analog phone equipment over VoIP, but the same for ISDN (prefereable Euro-ISDN, DSS1, but all other also ok) ? Regards, Martin

to: Sipgate users Just read on the German Sipgate site (www.sipgate.de) that Sipgate has an agreement of cooperation with the German call-to-call provider PM² Telecommunication GmbH. All calls from a German landline via this carrier to any Sipgate number (UK, Germany, Austria ...) are billed at 0.99 ct/minute, by using the carrier prefix 01056 before the number. This is about 0.66...

Anyone else having problems with Sipgate? Calling my numbers from PSTN either results in number not recognized or we can not connect you to the service.

I just got setup with Voip, new voip phone and the like and now the service has gone. Anyone know whats wrong? Geoff

Dear All, I just purchased a new netgear TA612v and initially I was under the assumption it could be used with my current router Netgear DG834T. After un-packing the router I noticed it had a port for ethernet and a port for the internet so I assumed I could configure the both to be visable on my internal LAN with port forwarding well after speaking to Netgear support last night they told I...

Hi I have set up voip phone on my router and can make calls. (Actually I have succeeded with two phones, a grandstream and a snom). However I can only receive inbound calls immediately after I have made an outgoing call. The problem is reported on the control screen as 'too many contacts' and on the snom phone it shows NR (?Not Registered ?). Gradwell support , who have been very good, had...

Has anyone here used the sipX voip phone system? http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipX/ -- -- Steven May you have the peace and freedom that come from abandoning all hope of having a better past.

A while back 1899 had blocked all registered numbers from using VoIP, the only way to get 1899 VoIP to work again was to add another number, well 1899 have done it again blocked those added numbers too. I have added another new number which now works, if this continues I am going to run out of numbers to add!

http://www.ciscoheadsetadapter.com The Cisco Headset Adapter allows you to use any standard cell phone headset with your Cisco IP phone. Benefits of using the Cisco Headset Adapter: * SAVINGS! Cheapest Plantronics headset for Cisco IP phone costs $70-75, good headset will cost you over a hundred. At the same time good Plantronics headset for cell phone costs $20-30. Thus, total costs for...

I'm a complete newbie at this, so please bear with me. I have a Sipgate number with the X-lite softphone which worked fine. I thought it might be sensible to use 18866's VOIP system. But when I use the 18866 settings, I can dial out via 18866 at their prices but -- understandably -- the Sipgate number for people to ring me won't work as there is no username, password etc for it.

Hi, We have recently extended our phone rate comparison database to include VoIP. So far we only have a small number of companies' rates: this will grow with time. I would be interested in comments, and in whether we are missing people's favourite VoIP providers. Joel -- Joel Feinstein, Nottingham UK, http://www.ourfavouritecompanies.com

TIA JPG

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anyone else havig this problem? If i call my land line with VoIPBuster (From my Sip phone, via my asterisk box!) when I press a number on the SIP phone, the DTMF tone is played twice to the land line? It only happens with VoIPBuster (Just tried it with VoIPTalk, Sipgate and VoIPUser), (It wasn't doing it yesterday, and I haven't changed anything (honest!)) Sparks...

I made a call before 9am this morning, for the last 2 hours I've not been able to make calls. The ATA says registered but just get beep-beep-beep after long pause, now. David