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I'm a bit new at this - soplease bear with me. I have Skype on my pc and pda mainly becsuse I have family across the Atlantic and they use Skype too. I use it on the PDA when away from home. I'm confused about the differences between what i understand to be voip and sip - are the two compattible? I know I cannot use Skype to totally replace the house phone (NTL) as I

http://www.jajah.com/ Seems too good to be true. Wonder if it will last? Saw this about them on BBC Tech page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4782895.stm About Jajah The JAJAH Free Global Calling Plan JAJAH's vision is to provide free unlimited phone calls, anywhere in the

Hi All, I'm having problems setting up asterik (via FreePBX) to use Orbtalk as a trunk. I've got multiple trunks to other providers, without any problems, but I can't seem to nail the settings for Orbtalk. Do orbtalk require any special settings that people like Voipcheap and Voipfone wouldn't require? All suggestions appreciated..

I've got a couple of SPA 841s, which I quite like. They came from the US so I've had to make a few changes to get the right tones etc. One problem I have is that the people I call tell me I'm very faint although I hear them just fine. It's the same with both phones so I'm pretty sure it's a set-up issue not a hardware fault. Anyone had a similar problem? TIA

Any news if bt are to issue 01 / 02 numbers for its voip / talk product?

Hi all, I`ve seen this discussed in a thread here, but can`t find the thread. It`s going to smack me in the face 2 seconds after I post this message of course :-) Someone told me of the best codec to use for a Sky box, or other modem use, on a Linksys PAP2. Anyone care to refresh my memory please? Thanks!

http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=22974 Hopefully they don't keep this to themselves.

The Invalid wrote: Skype are giving away 20 free minutes to ordinary landlines every thursday Grab them. All you have to do is click on a link and your account will be credited with a whole 24p. Gimme gimme gimme - I'm so impressed - every Thursday all though August as well. Bloody world's going loopy...

My voip service with Gossiptel which has worked well for over twelve months ceased without explanation 48 hours ago. The website www.gossiptel.com is also down. Anyone know what has happened to Gossiptel?

I am about to try a soft phone and would like some advice on headsets. For instance can they double up for use with a mobile MP3 player and also on aircraft. If so could I detach the mic when not needed. Also how they simply plug into my PC (audio In/Mic on soundcard?) Thanks Mike --

Hello. I have a friend who's company has just had a Mitel 3100 VOIP phone system installed. They would like to have some basic call logging reporting such as "Date, Time, Extn, Number Called, Duration". They have been told that this is a chargeable option? Is this correct?

Im trying to set up my pap2 to use sipgate but get "Can't connect to login server" when it tries to register.. I have tried using the ip address instead of sipgate.co.uk and tried setting a secondary DNS server, but nothing helps.. Funny things is this used to work a few months ago when I last tried sipgate. Any Ideas?

I am rather confused about setting this thing up. I got this instead of the 3000 as it was the same price though I do not intend using the router at the moment. Basically I cannot get any joy out of the local IP. Using a phone I have set the Wan side to 10.27.27.110 and allowed remote management.

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Hi, Can anyone advise: (1) - Cheapest ATA (2) - Cheapest ATA supporting POTS line and multiple SIP service provider accounts Thank in advance and best wishes,

I recently decided that I was going to go with either Sipgate and another provider who was offering no monthly charge but gave 10 mins free calls each month to many worlwide destinations. Siggate gives a local incomming number but the other provider didn't. Can anyone tell me who the 'other' provider is? I can't find them anywhere in my history! TIA

I have signed up with sipgate.co.uk for a free number but I am a bit worried to give it to all the friends except some close ones. My concerns a 1. Who issued these free numbers to sipgate, BT/NTL? 2. Should sipgate go under or change their policy, what will happen to our "free" numbers? Can we buy it back from BT or NTL in this case? Thx.

Hopefully a quick question, using an SPA-3000 is it possible to do the following? If not is there a similar unit (as in small and not that expensive) which can, or do I have to go to a PC with trixbox? Call comes in from PSTN If call is from my mobile then: Provide a VOIP dial tone Else: Divert call to a VOIP number with no (or near to no) delay

I want to forward/divert my BT line to my sipgate number so if I stay at friend's I can still answer my home phone. My questions a 1. Do I need an ATA with FXO port like the Grandstream 488 or SPA3000? 2. Do I need 2 sipgate numbers, "Sipgate no. A" at the home ATA that takes the call from BT and forward to "Sipgate no. B" at the friend's house? Or the ATA can forward the BT call to "Sipgate...

No Spam wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:21:08 +0100, "Resident Drunk" wrote: Just a query though - why did you ditch NTL ?. I have ditched NTL tv (for Sky+) & phone but kept the BB which I also use now for VOIP - meaning my landline calls are free and I do not pay monthly line rental.