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Hi, Is there one?? there must be one in German I would have thought but if there is not an English one maybe we could set one up. i would be willing to help out as a moderator. what do people think? Nigel --

I bought a Frtiz!box Fon WLAN (Annex A) from Sipgate last week. Basically it's a fantastic unit but I've two issues and AVM support seems to only allow one e-mail out per 24 hours! You wait 24 hours, they send a pre-written answers everything reply which doesn't address what you say, you reply and must wait another 24 hours for the next stage! NB Weekends don't count so Friday questions...

Hi, I'd like to be able to record a "Good Morning", "Good Afternoon" and "Good Evening" greeting to play to callers on the asterisk pbx? Is this easy? Has anyone achieved this? Can someone point to some suitable information? Many thanks

For anyone interested, Sipgate are now offering 020 3 London numbers. Also 020 8 numbers are now available, but they seem to have run out of 020 7 ones..! Although the site still (wrongly) lists them as 0203 (Inner) and 0208 (Outer) London..! Ivor

I note from online spec that Flexor 151 is able to intregrate with google talk. I have downlaoded manual but can see no reference as to how this is done. Anyone able to advise on how its possible and steps to take to make it happen? cheers

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/voipregulation/voipstatement/ -- http://ale.cx/ (AIM:troffasky) ) 12:38:40 up 34 days, 15:52, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.16, 0.15 Yes. I'm just guessing.

Hi, I have both a German and an English Fritz!box 7050. On the English version (firmware 14.04.26) there is "ENUM" option, which is missing on the German version (firmware 14.04.25)... Isn't that strange? I always thought the German version had more options... I guess I have to use something like Voxalot then, on the German one, in order to have ENUM?

How can I configure a Linksys PAP2T and/or dial a prefix on a phone connected to Line 1 such that an outgoing call goes out on Line 2? I've just set up voiptalk.org successfully for incoming and outgoing calls (at ****ing last!), after being ditched by voxbone as they don't support personal customers. However, I'd like to use voipcheap.co.uk for outgoing calls. I've configured line 2 for this....

Someone in another group suggested "skype prime" might meet my needs, but that appears to be labelled as a "beta". Coincidentally, I also need a new land-line 'phone. Looking on the 'net, I find various skype phones and dual-use phones. How do I find out whether any of these 'phones support the "skype prime" services? -- Nick Kew

Hi there. I've signed up for a sipgate account and tested it using their softphone on my laptop. The voice quality was acceptable so I bought a Zoom 5800 ATA from play.com as I've seen them mentioned as being ok. The only trouble is that there aren't any instructions on sipgate's site for this adaptor and the settings it mentions doesn't seem to match what I'm asked for.

visit http://www.newtonfield.org for a dedicated forum for Zoom ATA devices. eg. Zoom 5800. Enjoy.

Sorry another couple of questions about the box:- Is there a way to limit the bandwidth you want one of the LAN socket to use?? say 256Kb for Lan socket B? Is the firewall switched on even though I am not using the box as a modem? If it is not will I be liable to attacks form the internet. I have a firewall in my computer but not in the cable modem. Thanks

Hi, Is there any way to make the fritz box to ignore the first 4 digits a telephone connected up to the fritz box dials. The reason I ask is that the phone I have is pre-set to Austrian Telecom so it dials out '1001' in front of every telephone number!! Can you do that in the dialling rules? Any ideas.

Just a bit of information for any who have ported numbers from Vonage to voip.co.uk. I had about 3 or 4 calls today from numbers I didn't recognise followed by a call from Vonage tech support. I believe that Vonage have re-allocated my ported number, as their system did not realise it had been ported away. The next step which is very likely to happen of course is for them to try to grab...

I am using vc com mainly through my ATA, but for routing of some calls via Voxalot (so I can change the dialstring). Although Voxalot doesn't register with VC I have always been able to place outbound calls this way. However this doesn't seem to work now. Is anyone else having these issues? Is it linked to VC com's recent inclusion of the words "per unique IP address" in the Freecalls T&Cs? ...

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Does anyone know of a supplier that offers cheap PC to mobile calls. 14p per minute does not get you very far. In the US its 0.7p per minute to calls to a mobile.

I want to get rid of my NTL line as it's costing me 12.50 a month but I do want to keep the number (itself originally ported to NTL from BT.) Sipgate help pages say you can't port to them (why?) so does anyone know of any other VOIP provider who will accept the number? I heard Gradwell might. Any other ideas how I can do this? Joe

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I realise I'm tempting fate, but here goes. Is anybody else having problems with their Sipgate accounts not registering today? Mine all seem to be doing just that ATM, and my ISP (PlusNet) have made an announcement to the effect that at least some of their customers are also failing to be able to get to the Sipgate sites. I'm just wondering if this a general Sipgate problem which is affecting