Any VOIP / virtual PBX experts around?

jaydeeuk1

Setting up a virtual PBX system for our office, and looking to use VOIP. Being a cheap git, I want to do this as cheap as possible for the time being until I'm happy with it.

Using lazypbx, which looks bloody awesome and gives a free 15 day trial (and a proper free trial, not an enter your credit card trial), so even if there are cheaper providers out there, I'm sticking with these.

In our office, we have 1 phone line, so I'd like to use VOIP to route to a computer using an IP phone. I'm trying sipgate and using PhonerLite software which is free.

The pbx software can forward to a SIP URI, however it expects the URI to be something like joebloggs@iptel.org and doesn't accept numeric values, my username is just numbers...

I'm not bothered about whether I can make calls at the moment, I just want to be able to receive calls via the pbx system using a voip headset.

Anyone have a better solution or know of other software? I have plenty of bandwidth at our datacenter so if there is opensource or free SIP server software I can install (not linux based, aint got a clue!)

aerostar

Have you tried [EMAIL="userid@sipgate.co.uk"]userid@sipgate.co.uk[/EMAIL] ?

fwor

I'm certainly not an expert but I did look at this a couple of years ago when setting up an Asterisk based server, and I used this list (which has changed quite a bit since then):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SIP_software

I was looking mainly for Linux clients, but it covers servers and Windows as well.

jaydeeuk1

aerostar wrote: »

Have you tried [EMAIL="userid@sipgate.co.uk"]userid@sipgate.co.uk[/EMAIL] ?

Thats the problem. My userid would be 1234567@sipgate.co.uk, however lazypbx doesn't seem to like the fact the username contains digits and won't accept it....

aerostar

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Thats the problem. My userid would be [EMAIL="1234567@sipgate.co.uk"]1234567@sipgate.co.uk[/EMAIL], however lazypbx doesn't seem to like the fact the username contains digits and won't accept it....

What do their support say on this ?- seems rather stupid to accept just characters.

S0litaire

have you tried the format of sip:userid@hostname ?
e.g. "sip:1234567@sipgate.co.uk"

think it needs the sip prefix to tell it that it's using VOIP extension.


Just had a look at the lazypbx manual think you need to give the user a local user name or ID on the PBX and set his SIP: address as the users phone number.