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I got this email today (twice). I have never signed up for a Freecall account. The email addresses to which they were sent were the ones I submitted when I applied for two SipDiscount accounts. I always use uniquely formatted email addresses so I know this for sure. _______ Subject: Question from the FREECALL development team! Hello Freecall fan!!

I have a Sipura 3000 which I did not use for more than 1 year, as I switched to the german-made Fritz Box Of course, after 1 year I forgot all about setting up this Sipura ;) Now I wanted to install this Sipura device in my doughters student room, where she has broadband Altough the Sipura 3000 has 2 phone ports (FSX, FSO or 1 line and 1 phone connector) it is not the intention to conncet to a...

Hi, Does anyone have a Czech VoIP-in voipdiscount, voipstunt, voipcheap etc number they no longer use and would be willing to donate? Thanks, Stu

Hi, Has anybody else experienced Betamax companies (esp. VoipDiscount) not hanging up the call after it is finished? I am mainly interested in people using the their website to connect two phone calls.. Somebody I know is having a problem whereby after disconnecting the landline is not hung up, and they dont get a dialtone. It has happened a few times, but this time they dont seem to get...

Hi, Finarea / Betamax (VoipStunt/Cheap/SIP Discount,etc.) seem to have introduced a new credit refunding / expiry policy. Namely - expired credit will be restored on next top-up (in addition to the previous policy of being retained if buying additional credit before expiry of existing credit) and remaining credit (as I read both pre and post expiry) will be refunded directly to a specified...

Having used Skype for some time I'd like to get into "proper" VoIP. I have a Draytek Vigor 2900VG router with QoS and a pair of voice ports, so I'm looking for a VoIP provider. I'll primarily be using this for conference calls when working from home, so the following requirements are important: Free calls to UK geographic numbers Free (or cheap if free isn't possible) calls to Germany and...

The short version... Don't bother ! There are cheaper... much cheaper options that are very straightforward to set up and use !!! Now for the longer version... Not having seriously checked on what voip had to offer, prices and how it worked in practice, I thought I'd buy a headset from Tesco to give that a try. Getting it set-up and using it was straightforward so, having nearly used all the...

Hi I'm complete;y new to voip, and now I'm lookng for the best free software - any suggestions? cheers DW

Calling out via voiptalk (with a Cambridge geographic number), the person receiving the call sees my caller ID as an 02071062924 number, which is nothing to do with my numbers.... Configuring my brother-in-law's voiptalk (Bristol) account into my trixbox and then dialling out on that produces the same Caller ID being sent to the person receiving the call, ie 02071062924. Anyone else getting the...

Hi All I have the JPL web phone 2 working fine with Voipstunt but cannot make the keypad on the phone interact with Voipstunt. I assume that this is a driver issue. There is a sriver disk with it but the list of services on it does not include Voipstunt. Any help on this appreciated

Sorry if this is a duplicate on the list. I wish to set up a reroute of a BT line through to a VOIP line. (i.e Office to home) I use draytel and a draytek router for my voip. Anyone have the knoweldge for the best TXO adaptor, and does it work OK. Many Thanks

I am trying to get 2 Asterisk servers to communicate over an ISDN2e line. Each is running Asterisk 1.2.10 + Bristuff driving a HFC-S chipset BRI card. One is configured as bri_net_ptmp, the other as bri_cpe_ptmp. I have built a crossover cable wired as (Rx+) 3 ------ 4 (Tx+) (Tx+) 4 ------ 3 (Rx+) (Tx-) 5 ------ 6 (Rx-)

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Hello all, Maybe some of you are Asterisk experts and can help me with my problem. I'm a Linux newbie but I've managed to install Fedora Core 5 on a Via EPIA EN15000 board. I've compiled Asterisk (version 1.2.10) succesfully and I'm running Asterisk with user asterisk and group asterisk. If I start asterisk with asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvgc then all is well, no problems are reported.

How secure is sip ? I hear people banging Skype on security... just wondered if SIP was secure ?

Just a quickie for you experts here! If I buy a secondhand 486 Handytone that is specifically mentioned as a version 1 unit, what features/options will be missing? Cheers -- ********************************************************************* Do you know what your kids are doing online?

Has anyone any experience of setting up QoS for VOIP (in this case a SPA2002 with Sipgate) on a DLink router? I have the DSL-G624T. There is a QoS tab with options "PortMapping QoS" and "IP QoS" (by ToS, Application and User Define). I've tried fiddling with the settings of each (its undocumented in the user guide) but without a satisfactory result. Does anyone have a clear idea what the...

I've just signed up for free Orange Broadband (free that is provided you spend 30 quid a month on a mobile). Their Livebox came with a phone adaptor which basically seems to allow a normal telephone to plug in one end and the other to plug into a standard Ethernet socket on their Livebox so you can then make free VOIP calls. Our cat took a liking to this adaptor and was last seen running out...

Hi, Interested by the earlier post of paul 123 - "FreeCall 5 hour giveaway" I thought I would try Finarea / Betamax's latest offering. Enjoyably it appeared to work as might be hoped for the first few calls (over 1 minute duration, permitted direct calls , etc.). However, quite soon the calls were refused (total call time used believed to be ~ 5 minutes total) and I was offered to be redirected...

Hi, Finarea / Betamax (VoipStunt/Cheap/SIP Discount,etc.) seem to have introduced a new credit refunding / expiry policy. Namely - expired credit will be restored on next top-up (in addition to the previous policy of being retained if buying additional credit before expiry of existing credit) and remaining credit (as I read both pre and post expiry) will be refunded directly to a specified...