Plusnet & Sipgate

[kyron]

I was told by saipgate after speaking to one of their tech support and said that they were unable to peer with plusnet. Has anyone got more information on this

[marks_voip]

I know of a few people who have contacted both sipgate and plusnet re peering. Unfortunalty it doesn't seem to go anywhere fast. Its a shame as the peering and lack of a geographical number are all that stop me using plusnets voip. I know I could muck around having a sipgate for incoming and a plus for outgoing calls, but I really don't want the hassle

[Arctic Fox]

Don't know what 'peering' is. But I too have had issues with a sipgate/plusnet as ISP setup. I can get a softphone working OK, but my linksys adaptor will not logon to the service. [link here]

Currently trying to borrow a cisco IP phone to see if that'll work.

[acoolwelshbloke]

Sipgate refuse to peer with anyone!

Voipfone have the same problem, after voipfone contacted them to arrange a peering agreement sipgate responded with "we are no longer accepting new peering partners at this time" then blacklisted voipfone!

So you can forget any new peering agreements between sipgate and any other voip provider!

Sell for the time being anyway!

[Arctic Fox]

What is 'peering'?

[kyron]

Peering is voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. Peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic, instead, each derives revenue from its own customers.

Peering requires physical interconnection of the networks, an exchange of routing information through the BGP routing protocol and is often accompanied by peering agreements of varying formality, from "handshake" to thick contracts.

Source WIKI