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setting up a VOIP phone
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setting up a VOIP phone
I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone (using a 4G router). I have signed up with Sipgate, and I would appreciate any recommendations on which ATA adaptorto buy?
Also I have installed the Zoiper app on my iPhone and set up the connection to my Sipgate account - but so far I am unable to receive VOIP calls using the app - any suggestions as to what might be going wrong?
newlyretired
Also I have installed the Zoiper app on my iPhone and set up the connection to my Sipgate account - but so far I am unable to receive VOIP calls using the app - any suggestions as to what might be going wrong?
newlyretired
Re: setting up a VOIP phone
I use a Grandstream adapter to a set of DECT phones
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-GS ... B01JH7MYKA
Sipgate have setup guides for these adapters :-
https://basichelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-g ... T-Adapters
Been working well for that last couple of years with no issues.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-GS ... B01JH7MYKA
Sipgate have setup guides for these adapters :-
https://basichelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-g ... T-Adapters
Been working well for that last couple of years with no issues.
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
newlyretired wrote:I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone
Why bother doing that and not just use a mobile phone (with WiFi calling if reception is poor)?
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
newlyretired wrote:I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone (using a 4G router). I have signed up with Sipgate, and I would appreciate any recommendations on which ATA adaptorto buy?
Also I have installed the Zoiper app on my iPhone and set up the connection to my Sipgate account - but so far I am unable to receive VOIP calls using the app - any suggestions as to what might be going wrong?
newlyretired
Zoiper does the job if (and only if) you're OK with it playing mind games to try and get you to upgrade to a paid version. One of those mind games it played on me was a spell of frequently losing its registration (so it would fail to take incoming calls) and making no attempt to reconnect. That meant frequently restarting it (zoiper) myself.
No idea if it's doing something like that to you. It will display a little tick or cross - top left of my android screen - to indicate whether it's successfully registered. It'll also log a message. Check those if you haven't already.
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
ReallyVeryFoolish wrote:AF62 wrote:newlyretired wrote:I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone
Why bother doing that and not just use a mobile phone (with WiFi calling if reception is poor)?
Because if you have an internet connection you don't need a mobile phone if you use VOIP with your internet router. Perhaps?
And who doesn't have a mobile phone?
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
ReallyVeryFoolish wrote:AF62 wrote:ReallyVeryFoolish wrote:Because if you have an internet connection you don't need a mobile phone if you use VOIP with your internet router. Perhaps?
And who doesn't have a mobile phone?
There's three people in my close family who don't. Beyond that, I have no idea.
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Yet I know of nobody that doesn’t have one, including friends and relatives in their 90’s.
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
One advantage of a SiP/VoIP solution is it stops your real numbers from being on too many databases, with the issues around privacy/leaks, ID theft et al.
I've been looking into that, virtual SMS numbers, virtual CC numbers for a while now.
I've been looking into that, virtual SMS numbers, virtual CC numbers for a while now.
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
ReallyVeryFoolish wrote:AF62 wrote:ReallyVeryFoolish wrote:There's three people in my close family who don't. Beyond that, I have no idea.
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Yet I know of nobody that doesn’t have one, including friends and relatives in their 90’s.
So, on a sample of two of us that's 1.5 people each.
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Or 0.75 phones per person.
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
Infrasonic wrote:I've been looking into that, virtual SMS numbers, virtual CC numbers for a while now.
One of the credit card companies I used a few years ago, I seem to recall Cahoot, used to offer virtual credit card numbers for online transactions. You generated an individual card number and could set a maximum card limit as the value of the transaction. It worked, sort of. The issue was there was more times it didn't than it did; retailers who put through a test £0.01p authentication and so used up the card number, refunds were a pain, etc.
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Re: setting up a VOIP phone
PhaseThree wrote:I use a Grandstream adapter to a set of DECT phones
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-GS ... B01JH7MYKA
Sipgate have setup guides for these adapters :-
https://basichelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-g ... T-Adapters
Been working well for that last couple of years with no issues.
A big thanks for the advice. We live in a rural area with 2Mg broadband with no chance of fibre. Recently, we've signed up for a 20Mg connection via microwave link from a rural comms company for the same price as the landline + broadband package. Setting up the Grandstream was easy and the phone is working fine. I'm still in the process of porting the existing number which Openreach managed to screw up by having the wrong post code - no fault of Sipgate, who have been very helpful.
And on another posting ...
Why bother doing that and not just use a mobile phone (with WiFi calling if reception is poor)?
Because we have a Panasonic DECT phone with 4 handsets around the house. And because I don't want to carry a mobile phone everywhere I go
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