Slighly Choppy calls on FreePBX
I recently moved from one VPS to a new one it was a little cheaper and the pings where cut in half (even though wasnt much to start with) but my old VPS had some on going I/O disk issues going on....
View ArticleCisco 7905/7912 IP Phones Any good ?
I have been offered a dozen of these in mint condition at a great price. Do these phones have good audio quality and easy to configure or am I asking for problems ? I watched some Youtube videos on...
View ArticleSunRocket: 10 years later.
We've just passed the 10th anniversary of their meltdown. Few comments from back then: After almost 3 years of service, and with little warning to customers, the VoIP startup SunRocket has ceased...
View ArticleLeft Ooma for CallCentric - thoughts on both services
I have used many different VOIP providers over the years. I've used CallCentric for business about the same amount of time that I used Ooma. I got into Ooma about five years ago. Recently my remote...
View ArticleSkype has FEC for packet loss, what about other VoIPs?
Curious to know which other VoIP solutions implement this. Been googling around for error-correction (parity?) which adds some realtime repair capabilities to deal with random packet loss (but...
View Article[Other] IS sip.iptel.org down
I can login to my account on the site but my Obi ATA device cannot register. I cannot ping sip.iptel.org either.
View Article[Voip.ms] Phone options for small business
Hi guys. So I've decided to go with voip.ms and now need to select IP phones for my crew. I'm planning a traditional setup: 1 phone per employee. However they may receive incoming calls using any of 3...
View Article[Other] BasicTalk - What is your experience?
I am thinking to switch to BasicTalk from Vonage. I did research on BasicTalk on and off in the past few months and have a good understanding of what it provides (unlimited national wide calling, e911)...
View Article[Asterisk] OAuth 2.0 Support for Asterisk 13 or Asterisk 14
The attached package should provide OAuth 2.0 supoort to any Asterisk 13 or Asterisk 14 system: 1. Extract oauth2.tar.gz to the /root directory. 2. Edit oauth2.creds. The first line must contain your...
View Article[CallCentric] Call treatment for caller ID Name
Hi I have an aggravating blast of spammers, and fax machines that call me. They all are various numbers in 937-781-xxxx numbers (oddly enough the same exchange as I am). The ONE THING in common is the...
View ArticleIs Voip.ms my best option for this small business setup.
I own a small US mechanical engineering company and am setting up a new office. We need 3 phone numbers, 12 phones (users) and we need to connect an incoming call to any user regardless of the incoming...
View ArticleVUC644: Quality-Assured Voice and Video over Commodity Broadband
This coming Friday, Sept 22nd the IP Communications Conference call will feature Martin Geddes presenting on "Quality-Assured Voice and Video over Commodity Broadband." It’s been a few years since...
View Article[Equipment] Questions about voice quality and equipment
Hello all, I think I'm about ready to make the jump on one of my POTS lines to a high quality VOIP solution, I'm thinking about getting a few SIP phones and trying my luck with a provider that supports...
View Article[PBX] FreePBX for the Raspberry Pi
The included script (install) and archive (install.tar.gz) will build FreePBX 2.11, 12, 13, or 14 plus Asterisk 11, 12, 13, or 14 on a Raspberry Pi. iptables, dnsmasq, exim4, and pygooglevoice are also...
View Article[General] Looking for VOIP recommendation - international calling
Current Time Warner Cable (incl phone) customer & tired of bad call quality while calling international numbers. They have recently started routing calls through local numbers in destination...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia opens itself to Skype, WhatsApp etc.
Lifting a longtime ban, Saudi Arabia will open up the country to online calling services. Apps like Skype and WhatsApp will become functional in the country on Wednesday at midnight local time. The...
View Article[General] Vonage not passing phone number on overseas calls (CLOSED)
I've had Vonage since 2009, but in the last 6-8 months it is hit-or-miss as to whether it will pass on my phone number when I place calls to the UK. This is something recently changed. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleBad call quality issues
Good day. We recently installed a new VoIP system at our office. We are experiencing extremely bad quality calls. System as follows: Internet connection: ISP: Sonic Telecoms Connection: Wireless...
View ArticleCan a carrier forcibly change a number's LRN?
I have a number with Google Voice (Bandwidth) whose LRN was changed to another provider earlier this week. Twilio and FreeCarrierLookup's tool both show that the number is still with Bandwidth...
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