{{{{{Welcome}}}}} explained on 09/01/2008 :[color=blue]
> Jono wrote:[color=green]
>> Nick wrote on 09/01/2008 :[color=darkred]
>>> I have set up an incoming number with VoipCheap.co.uk. This connects
>>> ok. However when other people dial this number they do not hear the
>>> standard British ringing tone. I'm using a Linksys spa3102 but it is
>>> the same for the software client.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to fix this.[/color]
>>
>> Check out this document
>> <http://www.provu.co.uk/pdf/sipura/sipura_uk_regional_settings.pdf>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Presumably it is the same for all Betamax
>>> products like VoipCheap.com (which appears to have free uk calls
>>> while the .co.uk version doesn't)[/color]
>>
>> Ring any of mine & you get UK ring tone.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> If not are their any recommendations for a voip provider for an
>>> incoming line. I would like to port my BT number and so I'm
>>> concerned about reliability (and maybe the need to port out in
>>> future).[/color]
>>
>> Are you on cable broadband? If not, you need the PSTN line for ADSL.
>>
>> If you're planning on scrapping your BT line, don't forget it often
>> costs over £100 to get it reconnected.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I would be happy to
>>> pay for a deal with bundled calls like Vonage. Is Vonage reliable?[/color]
>>
>> Damned expensive.
>>
>> On the device you have, you could have two incoming providers - BT & a
>> VoIP provider. (ignoring your general ability to increase that by
>> using something like Voxalot)
>>
>> You can have considerably more outgoing providers. Read up on SPA3x0x
>> Gateways
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I would also be ok with using one provider for incoming calls and
>>> another for outgoing.[/color][/color]
>
>
> Strange on my VoIPStunt line, callers who call my number get the continental
> ringing tone as of all the others I know with Betamax VoIP, yes with the
> settings my own phones ring out correctly and I hear the correct tones when
> ringing out, but using the number issued by betamax then it's the continental
> tone to them, not that anyone's complained other than one or two have
> mentioned it - like the old ringing tone when calling the old analogue mobile
> phones.[/color]

I have to confess that I do not actually use the ATA directly as I have
an Astersik server.

Asterisk handles the SIP providers.

However, I wasn't fibbing when I said that callers hear UK tones.

.......again, though, I haven't rung myself for aaaaaages to listen...