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Old 09-01-2008, 19:13
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Default Re: VOIPCheap incoming dial tone.

Jono wrote:[color=blue]
> {{{{{Welcome}}}}} explained on 09/01/2008 :[color=green]
>> Jono wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Nick wrote on 09/01/2008 :
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Check out this document
>>> <http://www.provu.co.uk/pdf/sipura/sipura_uk_regional_settings.pdf>
>>>
>>>> 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)
>>>
>>> Ring any of mine & you get UK ring tone.
>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> I would be happy to
>>>> pay for a deal with bundled calls like Vonage. Is Vonage reliable?
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> I would also be ok with using one provider for incoming calls and
>>>> another for outgoing.[/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...[/color]


Strange though, no I didn't think you were fibbing.


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