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Incoming call on Sipgate line at 5.20pm today has Caller ID showing midday on the 2nd January. Rebooted Grandstream, made no difference.

wrote: For anyone interested just dial voip will work with thr Sipura 2000 support informed me when I asked that they could not tell me has they had never tried using a Sipura but it does work ok . What settings are you using on the Sipura? -- The From address is a spam-trap, so all replies to the newsgroup please.

http://www.techworld.com/mobility/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3704 Vonage given rights to beat up BT$ in the VoIP market.

Has anyone else noticed that at the very bottom of the centre column on http://www.call1899.co.uk/voip.php the word 'feedback' is a link to has anyone had a response to emails sent to this address. I have already sent them my contribution, For example I would love to know how they justify 1p/min for 0800 numbers at the moment!

In declaring the future for VOIP is with the big operators Lars Godell, Telecoms analyst with Forrester Research said, "First of all, Skype rhymes with hype...". I'm more a lurker but couldn't leave this insightful analysis unpublished on the internet. Ben

Several people have commented in various threads that the 1899VoIP announcement is 1p per minute, but no-one, as yet, has confirmed that their on-line bill is actually showing this as a charge. Unfortunately I cannot check as my Grandstream box is playing up. (Or I have the settings wrong today after using JustDial last night). Can any-one confirm that 1p per minute is actually being charged...

Sipgate number unobtainable again this morning when dialling from Telewest, T-Mobile & Three. Getting engaged tone or "The number you have dialled has not been recognised" :-(

In message of Fri, 20 May 2005, writes For anyone interested just dial voip will work with thr Sipura 2000 support informed me when I asked that they could not tell me has they had never tried using a Sipura but it does work ok . Just kicked out 1899 and installed JD now with no problems . Thanks for that dexter, I've been dithering about getting a SPA3000 for some while now. I think I'll...

Has anyone tried and been successful in changing current UK geographic number to a new number using the option on the 'my account' page https://secure.sipgate.co.uk/user/my_account.php All I get offered is a new German number or an 0870 or an 0845 number. -- amos

Updated the firmware in my Grandstream ATA486 to version 1.0.5.23 and selected UK type Caller ID in the new settings. Call Waiting ID now works from Sipgate on my Panasonic 755 DECT phone! I asked Telewest on a few occasions when they would introduce this service, as I already subscribed to Call Waiting and Caller Display; they didn't even know what Call Waiting ID was!

For those interested in Emergency services using VoIp, the tutorial at: http://www.telecomflash.com/default.asp?func=articles&page=0505tf0410&year=2005&month=5 might be interesting? It is US based, but the principles should be similar. Maurice

I have a sipgate geographic number, 0114 xxx xxxx. It shows as my number when i log into sipgate and I have set up my voice mail to accept messages when the phone is offline, (I don't have an adapter for a phone on my router just yet). However when I dial the 0114 number I get nu tone. Should dialing my 0114 number result in something other than nu? Should I expect callers to be able to record...

In message of Wed, 18 May 2005, writes Just to let other JD customers who subscribe to the 1.98 package know all calls to UK landlines are free evening and weekends Yes, but for how long? There web site says 75mins. Is that 75mins per call, 75mins per evening, 75mins per month or what? Anybody know? David

On Thu, 12 May 2005 08:27:15 +0100, Al said... |My broadband uplink speed is only 64kb. I presume this is the main |reason for the fact that people I call using X-Lite softphone tell me |they have problems hearing me (even though I can hear them crystal |clear). Is it worth my playing with the codecs to try to improve the |situation and is there somewhere that describes the pros and cons of |the...

http://www.call1899.co.uk/voip.php In order to save capacity for our 1899 client software users, we will discontinue supporting other SIP/IAX devices on our network as from 20.05.2005 Please switch over to the 1899 client software before this date. Do they mean, you will no longer be able to use other programs, or just they will not offer help with them. Not that you ever get anything but...

I've had a quick e-mail chat with a very helpy bloke at Sipgate, and I've had a sort of admission that the latest service disruptions (no landline calls incoming) were not due to their fault, but to an "attack" to their PSTN gateway. Me thinks they are giving some headaches to the Big Telecom company... and someone there is playing dirty. What do you think? -- ßodincus · The Y2K Druid

18866 Voip Calls discontinued as from 20.05.2005 As from 20.05.2005 Call18866 will stop supporting SIP/IAX devices for making Voip calls. http://www.call18866.co.uk/news.php#0

My family live in the UK and we have relatives posted in Turkey, the Phillipines, and USA. We all currently use Skype and everyone LOVES it - especially the conference calling. Some of us have purchased SkypeIn numbers to allow relatives to make local calls that come through to us on Skype. We have a DECT phone plugged into a USB adaptor on the PC and we take our Skype calls anywhere in the...

Hello, i have a GRANDSTREAM Budge Tone BT101 and using it with sipgate. Is it possible to have multiple accounts in this phone (e.g. two sipgate accounts or one sipgate and a different provider) ? If not are there other VoIP phones supporting this ? Regards, Martin