www.voipcheap.co.uk

mybook

voipcheap.co.uk another service from Finarea SA

Free UK calls simple registration no credit required

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Graham1

It says rates are pence per minute - then says you should register and buy 1 euro worth of credit. Looks like they lifted the same text as their voipbuster.com site without changing that bit.

mrperfect

Its a good idea to buy 1 euro credit. If oyu dont free calls are cut off after 2 mins

mrwibble

mrperfect wrote:

Its a good idea to buy 1 euro credit. If oyu dont free calls are cut off after 2 mins

Been using it today - good quality on the UK landline calls I made and will try US calls soon - 0.5ppm

UK mobile is 9.75ppm which is better than 1899 (although same company !)

Anyone else tried it ? Only downside (apart from credit requirement for > 1 minutes calls) appears to be tie to their own app. - would have preferred some SIP/IAX info - not sure if they have some proprietary codecs in the app.

CrazyChemist_2

I've downloaded this but when I click "create new user" it pops up an error box without even trying to connect to server. it says "we can not carry out your registration request due to an unknown error". It then tries to connect to the server but after around a minute returns the same error.

I emailed voipcheap to ask about this and got no reply.

Anyone had this problem or know of a remedy?

nibor49

CrazyChemist

Maybe you are behind a firewall. I had the same problem and then looked at the dropped packets page for my router, it showed that packets to the destination port 11112 were being blocked. Having opened up the dp 11112 it
worked fine.

nibor49

CrazyChemist_2

I assume this is for broadband? I'm using dial-up, with Norton Internet Pro and Microsoft Antispyware. Any tips for dealing with this as I've already looked in Norton and noticed that voipcheap.exe has "permit all" next to it so that isn't the problem.

CrazyChemist_2

I've downloaded this but when I click "create new user" it pops up an error box without even trying to connect to server. it says "we can not carry out your registration request due to an unknown error". It then tries to connect to the server but after around a minute returns the same error.

I'm using dial-up, with Norton Internet Pro and Microsoft Antispyware. Any tips for dealing with this as I've already looked in Norton and noticed that voipcheap.exe has "permit all" next to it so that isn't the problem.

I've had no reply from the incompetent company so any help would be welcome :beer:

nibor49

Yes this is for broadband. I do not know anything about Norton Internet Pro or Microsoft Antispyware but have you tried disconnecting them to see if it works. Have you got the Microsoft Windows firewall enabled.

Phonix

If it's really the same company, what's stopping them from offering free calls to the same destinations as http://www.voipbuster.com ?

BexTech

Phonix wrote:

If it's really the same company, what's stopping them from offering free calls to the same destinations as http://www.voipbuster.com ?

It is indeed the same company, and there is no reason why they can't, they just don't.

Maybe worth mrwibble joining VoIPBuster as they offer free calls to the USA.