[Equipment] Polycom "Corporate Directory" (LDAP) - show all entries?
This is driving me batty. I thought the hard part of this would be getting the provisioning and the LDAP stuff working. That's done. But now that I'm poking around on the phone, I see that by default,...
View Article[PBX] Free Hosted PBX Worldwide
The British network operator Numbergroup Network Ltd has launched a Hosted PBX service with no montly subscription fees. The list of included features is impressive: Configure & manage redirects,...
View Articleswitching phone providers while keeping existing phone system
have a business has a nice phone system with 20 or so phones internally connected. right now we feed 3 at&t pots lines and 3 vonage lines into it. its got 6 plugs on the side that correspond with...
View Article[Equipment] Free phone - ACN IRIS 3000 Video phone
A friend gave me an ACN IRIS 3000 Video phone. Of course the device is locked and I don't have the desire to deal with what looks like a long series of steps to replace the ACN-specific firmware. The...
View ArticlePanasonic KX-TG1061 work with Callcentric?
Hi, I have an older wall phone, this one: KX-TG1061, with an extension. They have been on my cable VOIP forever. Now, I am looking to put them on my Callcentric account, which currently has a Panasonic...
View Article[Voip.ms] Configure your ATA's static IP/port with your VSP?
I'm wondering if this is possible (in general, with voip) or specifically with voip.ms. If I have a static IP (internet or WAN IP that is, static because I pay extra for it) and if I configure a...
View Article[General] Google Voice forward question.
There might be an obvious answer to this but I do not know what it is so here we go. I have Google voice forwarding all its calls to my VOIP provider, What I would like to know when the call is...
View Article[Equipment] Reliable source of DD-WRT routers
Buffalo DD-WRT routers have been great 'problem solvers' for folks who have bad NAT, need a touch of QoS and don't want to spend over $100 at SOHO locations. WZR-600DHP has now run out of stock at...
View Article[Voip.ms] ATT Direct TV Robocalls (Call Filtering stopped working)
866-750-9185 started robo-calling one of my Voip.ms DIDs on October 2 ... and has been averaging 5 to 15 calls practically daily at intervals throughout the waking hours of the day since then. There...
View ArticleWanted - Recording of "Anonymous call rejection" message.
I have VOIP.MS and they support CallierID blocking with the option "Anonymous CallerID number." They do not have a built in system message for ACR recording. They do allow me to upload my own .wav...
View Article[General] What is "Secure call" (star-codes 16 - 19)
For some ATA's I see mention of various star (*) codes that refer to "Secure Call". For example, code *16 is supposed to be a setting to "Secure All Calls activation code". I've just done a whole bunch...
View Article[General] What is better default codec: G726-32 or G711u?
I've read where people seem to like G711u, but it is 8 kb/s whereas G726-32 is 32 kb/s. Assuming your network / internet connection can handle this seemingly trivial increase, is there any downside in...
View Article[Voip.ms] Can't get routing-on-busy to ATA line-2 working
I'm trying to figure out a couple things here. The ATA in question is SPA-112. AT voip.ms main account is nnnnnn, and sub account is nnnnnn_Line2. Both using same POP, both showing registered. ATA is...
View Article[CallCentric] Grandstresm Keep-Alive
Callcentric Grandstream HT802 Inside the home with NAT (no open ports on firewall) Not using ALG or anything like that on router. UDP timeout on router is 120 seconds. Things seem to be working OK...
View Article[Voip.ms] Voip.ms - What indicates blocked call in CDR report?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is nothing in the Call Detail Report that indicates if any given inbound call met the criteria for being handled by the Caller ID filtering rules ? Other than perhaps...
View Article[Anveo] Call flow guidance - extensions, external numbers
Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere after searching for quite a while. I think this is pretty basic, but somehow I'm managing to miss the right answer....
View Article[Equipment] Modem-compatible settings for Grandstream HT801
Backstory: I have a device that has a built-in dialup modem that I can't really mess with, that's notoriously flaky over VoIP. I currently have it working via a Grandstream HT801, connected to...
View Article[General] Why have a DID and set it for no incoming calls?
I was checking my inbound logs and noticed a call from "DRY LOOP" . This area code and prefix is local (geographically) to me. And as I understand it, this is a wired (land-line) prefix (not cell...
View ArticlePre-Setup/Porting Questions
This isn't so much of a tech question, but I'm hoping that since most people here use VOIP, some would be familiar with the procedures for porting an existing landline phone number to Google Voice. I...
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