[General] VOIP dial tone not distributed to jacks throughout the house
I recently decided to get VOIP service. Previously, I have only had cell phone service at this location (no copper landline). Plugging a phone directly into my VOIP device works perfectly. I can hear a...
View Article[PBX] Remote extension registering but not available
We recently switched from rent PBX to a onsite PBX. Still using Piaf Green. There are about a dozen remote extensions. Most are working great. 3 of them however are giving trouble. One is a Yealink and...
View ArticleCisco SPA112 with multiple accounts?
Hey, so I'm new to voip and want to use this one provider only for incoming calls and another for outgoing and have another account, service, for backup outgoing calls. Where would I port my DID to?
View Article[PBX] Windows based PBX?
I have an ASUS Eee PC 1005HAB netbook with Windows XP SP3 that I would like to run a PBX on. I thought there was a version of 3CX that would work but have not found it for download. Does anyone have...
View Article[Equipment] Pingsweep doesn't return hostnames for VOIP devices
I use pingsweep programs such as these... https://www.addictivetips.com/net-admin/best-ping-sweep-tools/ ...to get a list of devices on a network, and they work well. But I haven't yet found one that...
View Article[General] Number Barn's vendor program
Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone signed up to sell their numbers on Number Barn? I ported a few numbers into them and set prices, but so far no fish are biting. Would like to port a lot more of my...
View Article[General] 800 Number
I am looking for "800" number. I have 3 BYOD providers ( VOIP.MS, Callcentric, and Anveo Direct ) and they only have "833" to "888" toll free numbers available. I can do a custom number search but none...
View Article[General] g722 wideband on analog phones
Tried g722 today for the first time and I am impressed with it. (Until today I've been mostly using alaw. The difference in quality is astounding.)...
View Article[Unlock] Unlocking the BasicTalk ATA
Important NOTE: a better unlocking method has been posted later in this thread. Please see this post for a permanent unlock developed by uid://1479488. My soft unlock may help in some cases if the ATA...
View Article[Anveo] Message Waiting/Stutter Tone Lost After Firmware update, Obi200
Hi All: My Obi200 has been running fine for the past year or so. However, I just updated my firmware to 3.2.2 and have lost my message waiting indicator as well as the stutter tone. However, I do get...
View Article[Equipment] EyeBeam soft phone no longer works.
https://go.counterpath.com/eyebeam-discontinued
View ArticleWhy are we using numbers for the phone? Only 10 characters!
Instead of phone NUMBERS imagine we used all the characters we're familiar with. 0-9 gives us 10. 26 in the alphabet. 52 if capitalization is included. Then we have other characters on the typical...
View ArticleEx-chief of France Telecom (Orange) charged in employee suicides
The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight reported cases of serious depression among employees at France's main telephone and internet company over three years. In a long-awaited...
View Article[Voip.ms] Voip.ms new beta feature Call Encryption TLS/SRTP
So voip.ms emailed this morning that they just enabled encrypted calls. YAY! I turned it on for one of my subaccounts using a grandstream HT702 ATA. I can report so far so good. Works. In grandstream I...
View Article[General] Analog Line to VoIP Provider
I need to ask the collective if something 'opposite of normal' is possible. I would like to ingest an analog line on an ATA with an FXO port, and have it be normally serviced by a provider....
View ArticleDumb Question: How to Make SIP to SIP Calls?
I realize I'm revealing great ignorance here, but how can I, if at all, utilize a Softphone to make a call to a SIP address without having to call an associated DID? Again, sorry if this is a dumb...
View Article[PBX] What IncrediblePBX version could I use in the Cloud ?
Can anyone please point me to the version(s) I can install with the providers mentioned here http://nerdvittles.com/?p=27989 ? Would this...
View Article[Anveo] Anveo Direct DID, FreePBX, pjsip : Reject call w/o failover?
FreePBX 14, Asterisk 16.3.0 I'd like to implement some blacklist rules. I want to reject certain incoming calls w/o answering and without having Anveo Direct move on to the DID's failover destination....
View Article[General] Google Voice Enterprise Now Available For $20/Month
Google Voice Enterprise is now available for public sign up via the Google Admin Console billing page. The service costs $20/user/month. The public announcement of this launch is not available as of...
View ArticleBest codec for deprioritized mobile traffic
Many carriers here in the US offer mobile plans with a much lower price point, but in return will deprioritize your traffic during periods of congestion. Has anyone dealt with this before? Are there...
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