Voip Help

Easy Talk provide the most cost efficient VoIP Solution

We have USD 0.5 Free Airtime giveaway together with our USB Handset and 128 MB Flash Drive Phone, available at www.digitalplanet.co.za
We have enclosed free dialer for Skype, VoIPBuster, Yahoo, X-pro etc, that you could use to make Free PC to PC phone calls.
With USD 0.5 Free Easy Talk Airtime, You could call landline in USA for 20 min, UK for 22 min, Canada for 27 min, Germany and China for 17 min.
For other destinations, pls check them under www.skypenow.net/help.asp :)
 
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I had the link for a POTS/VOIP adaptor somewhere, but I have now gone and lost it.

The device plugs into an Ethernet/USB Port and can take 1 normal telephone line [POTS].
It was selling for about R 1500.
It is not SKYPE dependant.
Incoming VOIP calls work somehow - carent remember exactly how.

You then plug your normal phones into that, and press #1 for VOIP calls from a normal handset. Leaving out #1 will result in a POTS call.

Now everything's SKYPE this and SKYPE that. BAH !

Anybody got and VOIP adaptors that are not skype dependant ?
 
Skype is private VoIP protocol

stoke said:
Now everything's SKYPE this and SKYPE that. BAH !

Anybody got and VOIP adaptors that are not skype dependant ?
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Most of the standard VoIP end-user devices shall be all independent from Skype. No matter it is an USB handset, an USB adaptor, a Broadband Phone or a VoIP Gateway, if it is standard, it should be compatible with standard VoIP protocol, which are H.323, SIP or MGCP. Just concerning the large Skype
user base, they sometimes also provide special dialer for Skype. Skype and Net2phone are all private VoIP protocol. They are not standard.
 
stoke said:
I had the link for a POTS/VOIP adaptor somewhere, but I have now gone and lost it.

Incoming VOIP calls work somehow - carent remember exactly how.
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http://www.sipura.com/products/spa3000.htm it has a FXS & FXO port
FXO port: plug in PSTN line from PBX or Telkom line
FXS port: plug in normal 2 wire phone or preferable Cordless phone (cheaper than Wireless VoIP phone)

The reason why you have a FXS port is that you can plug in regular phones, as opposed to IP phones
http://www.miro.co.za/stage/intranet/voip.php?section=SIPPhones which have a 100BT ethernet port

See below diagram
http://www.sipura.com/Assets/Images/spa3k-diagram_web.jpg

VoIP supplier: Miro
http://www.miro.co.za/stage/intranet/voip.php?section=SIPATA

I have setup a demo Asterisk@Home VoIP server on IP address 196.211.2.162
See thread http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=30494
 
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ic is correct. But I just find talking through headphones, etc very weird. Buy the DualPhone and treat VoIP and regular Telkom calls as the same thing
 
Yeah ic is right, here I & others are rambling on about VoIP

Download SkyPE beta 2.0 , works really cool with a webcam
Because its a beta release, I have heard of Blue screen of Death(BSOD)
but never experienced it just call breakup with a video session.

http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/
Download SkyPE and create a new account
 
Make the most out of the least

Sure, no matter it is for business or private use, we should always find ways to make the most out of the least.:)
 
LOL at ic I am definately no expert!! but a pretty heavy user!!
I had a look at my Skypeout purchases for the last year Total of 185euro.
That equates to 10882 skypeout minutes to New Zealand for R1480.
Even with telkoms latest international price reductions i would have paid R21764, a whopping 1470% more!!

Anyway my advice is just as ic said an el cheapo headset or mic/speakers and go with skype and fiddle.
Prehaps go to www.testyourvoip.com and do a test to london. No matter what connection you are using if you get 3 or better you should be ok.

i generally get 4.2 on adsl unshaped saix
2.8-3 on iburst
1-3 on adsl shaped saix.
One thing to consider if you are using a router would be to forward the skype port. If both ends of the connection in a call are firewalled then you will be routed through a "supernode" rather than direct p2p and you are then at the mercy of that supernodes bandwidth. The problem with port forwarding is you then run the risk of being nominated as a supernode youself and having you bandwidth chewed up. One way around this is to use port forwarding but then limit the bandwidth available to skype to 2KB/s with something like netlimiter. You then wont be nominated as a supernode. When you want to call or if someone calls you just lift the limit while you are on the call.
 
Daveogg - skype to NZ

Daveogg said:
LOL at ic I am definately no expert!! but a pretty heavy user!!
I had a look at my Skypeout purchases for the last year Total of 185euro.
That equates to 10882 skypeout minutes to New Zealand for R1480.
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Hey Dave - have you tried VoIP buster? (www.voipbuster.com) - just wondering what your experience is if you have. It is quite a bit cheaper than Skype to NZ (1.2 eu cents per minute as opposed to 2 eu cents per minute). Also has free calling to some landline destinations like the US, Ireland, etc. I have just tested it to the US and am fairly happy, but mine seems to crash after terminating the call - although it doesn't seem too serious. Let me know.
Ciao
 
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we use both SkypeOut and VoipBuster.
frankly speaking, for some destinations, VB is not just cost less, also quality better.
both solution you can use softphone and headset, another thing don't foget, purchase VB airtime is easier then Skype, our experiences.
But, talking about comprehensive communication, Skype gets its absolute advantages, and all communications between each parties are encrypted, you no need to worry about to send sensitive info via Skype, not like MSN.
i'm just thinking, if Skype can integrate SIP/IAX2 client, what the world will be?
of cause Skype won't do it, but it's possible to implement via Skype public API.
 
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