Tunasashimi
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My purpose in posting this thread, is to encourage Vox to wake up and smell the customers.
Vox's only current Voip offering leaves those clients who are most in need of it, and have most to gain from it, in the dark.
Why? Because the currently supplied 4-in-1 Cradle device is:
1) an ADSL modem
2) Broadband router
3) Wi-Fi radio built into a base station/charging cradle
4) with a non-Wi-Fi connection to a wireless handset.
But with only 1 option for connecting to the Internet: Via ADSL.
This is very nifty for people who have ADSL. But, thanks to Telkom's wonderful policy, PEOPLE WITH ADSL ALREADY HAVE A PHONE LINE.
What about the thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of people with iBurst, Wi-Max and Wi-Fi? I will not believe that they avoid those customers due to the possibility of inadequate QoS on their upstream providers!
BUT WAIT! There is hope.
The Base station is capable of connecting to the networks of those who Vox leave unaccommodated. (Apparently going through great lengths to leave them unaccommodated - the Base Station/Cradle is password protected and only Vox has "root" access to it by default).
From preliminary research is seems that the following connections are possible, I do not have a working example, yet, though, unfortunately:
1) Connecting the Cradle to a internet connection via Ethernet using DHCP.
2) Connection the Cradle to a network connection via Wi-Fi using DHCP.
3) PPP / PTPP connection over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
The only connection supported by Vox, currently, is:
4) Connecting the Cradle to an ADSL Phone line and rendering your current ADSL modem redundant.
I will update this thread with the steps required to enable option 1, 2 and 3. Unless Vox stops me, of course, for reasons I will never comprehend. Which would be stupid of them.
Vox! Give us an official answer! Are you working on the above? Are you sure it won't work? Are you afraid it will give you a bad reputation if it works? I have valid counters to all your arguments!
What you need to do is start selling the following ASAP, even if you must, under an advanced/certified dealer only sales page:
1) Wi-Fi-only Vox Phones
2) SIP accounts w/o hardware
3) Base stations/cradles with a firmware configuration page for DHCP or PPP over Ethernet or Wi-Fi Station mode
Then the people who have no current phone line, who have most to gain from your service, will be empowered, connected, raving, reselling....
Vox's only current Voip offering leaves those clients who are most in need of it, and have most to gain from it, in the dark.
Why? Because the currently supplied 4-in-1 Cradle device is:
1) an ADSL modem
2) Broadband router
3) Wi-Fi radio built into a base station/charging cradle
4) with a non-Wi-Fi connection to a wireless handset.
But with only 1 option for connecting to the Internet: Via ADSL.
This is very nifty for people who have ADSL. But, thanks to Telkom's wonderful policy, PEOPLE WITH ADSL ALREADY HAVE A PHONE LINE.
What about the thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of people with iBurst, Wi-Max and Wi-Fi? I will not believe that they avoid those customers due to the possibility of inadequate QoS on their upstream providers!
BUT WAIT! There is hope.
The Base station is capable of connecting to the networks of those who Vox leave unaccommodated. (Apparently going through great lengths to leave them unaccommodated - the Base Station/Cradle is password protected and only Vox has "root" access to it by default).
From preliminary research is seems that the following connections are possible, I do not have a working example, yet, though, unfortunately:
1) Connecting the Cradle to a internet connection via Ethernet using DHCP.
2) Connection the Cradle to a network connection via Wi-Fi using DHCP.
3) PPP / PTPP connection over Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
The only connection supported by Vox, currently, is:
4) Connecting the Cradle to an ADSL Phone line and rendering your current ADSL modem redundant.
I will update this thread with the steps required to enable option 1, 2 and 3. Unless Vox stops me, of course, for reasons I will never comprehend. Which would be stupid of them.
Vox! Give us an official answer! Are you working on the above? Are you sure it won't work? Are you afraid it will give you a bad reputation if it works? I have valid counters to all your arguments!
What you need to do is start selling the following ASAP, even if you must, under an advanced/certified dealer only sales page:
1) Wi-Fi-only Vox Phones
2) SIP accounts w/o hardware
3) Base stations/cradles with a firmware configuration page for DHCP or PPP over Ethernet or Wi-Fi Station mode
Then the people who have no current phone line, who have most to gain from your service, will be empowered, connected, raving, reselling....
of waiting...... soon you'll be