VOIP, Discussion, questions and answers

spin_back_simon

hey everyone,

I have set up a page on my site giving people the pro's and cons of each voip service provider. http://www.i-voip.co.uk/page/voip_service_providers.php

Hope you find it helpful.


Simon

Paul_Varjak

I got an e-mail from the company today and signed up.

They (supposedly) offer free calls to landlines in over 40 countries, but my username is not being recognised yet.

The maximum call length is one minute but if you credit your account with £10 you can (supposedly) call those 40+ international destinations untimed for free.

smiffy

I've been using 18899 without any probelms so far.

rapido

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smcaul

rapido wrote:

I have a VOIP question.

I've been drooling over this item review and it seems perfect for me (make a lot of calls to America)! http://www.grynx.com/index.php/projects/voip-for-free-with-the-sipura

Just one thing - can it connect to VOIP when the computer isn't switched on?

Also I was looking earlier on Ebay, and I could only find similar (cheaper) 'phone adapters, but most of them had USB connectors (so I'm presuming these are only useful if the computer is on).

Just for information, I currently connect to the internet via ADSL over my telephone line and have a USB modem connected to my computer (came free when I signed up to broadband)

many thanks in advance,

-rapido

Cant seem to find anywhere that says what connection it has - but I have used 2 different Sipura products - the 1001 and now the 2000 and they both connect via a router and ethernet cables - so I would assume the 3000 is the same. So you would need a router for it to be able to connect and then as long as you left the router on it does not matter about the PC as the two are independent of each other.

baby_frogmella

Hi

After an unsuccessful attempt to use a calling card on my VOIP line, my VOIP supplier (https://www.sobroadband.com) informed me the other day that i cannot use calling cards (used for overseas calls) on my home VOIP line. I just don't understand how this is possible....if i can make int'l calls using a chargeable access number (eg Telediscount) on my VOIP line, then why on earth can't i do the same thing with a calling card? (which has a 0800 access no).

Thanks in advance.

Bigun28

Has anyone managed to use VOIP with a dial-up connection? How usable is it?

pin

Randal wrote:

Has anyone managed to use VOIP with a dial-up connection? How usable is it?

Probably not quite the answer you are looking for, but relatives from Kenya call my folks on Skype using a dial up connection. They also use normal Voip (but don't know which package) to call land lines in the UK.

The quality is not that bad at all, especially compared to the quality of calling cards when calling to Kenya.

AP

Paul_Varjak wrote:

I got an e-mail from the company today and signed up.

They (supposedly) offer free calls to landlines in over 40 countries, but my username is not being recognised yet.

The maximum call length is one minute but if you credit your account with £10 you can (supposedly) call those 40+ international destinations untimed for free.

The main catch is that the €10.00 (£6.98) credit is only valid for 120 days. You have to weigh up how many minutes of international calls to which countries you are going to make in this 120-day period and see if it would be cheaper than €10.00 (£6.98) to make these calls by other means, such as using Telediscount, 1899, free minutes from mobile phones via simply-fone etc.

bikeman

baby_frogmella wrote:

Hi

After an unsuccessful attempt to use a calling card on my VOIP line, my VOIP supplier (https://www.sobroadband.com) informed me the other day that i cannot use calling cards (used for overseas calls) on my home VOIP line. I just don't understand how this is possible....if i can make int'l calls using a chargeable access number (eg Telediscount) on my VOIP line, then why on earth can't i do the same thing with a calling card? (which has a 0800 access no).

Thanks in advance.

It's all to do with intercarrier charging. Your voip supplier doesn't have any mechanism to get a share of the calling card opertor's revenue (0800 recipient (card company) must pay access costs back down the line to the originating carrier (your voip supplier)). Consequently they have barred access to the card platforms 0800 number).