Thanks to some of the other threads on this forum, I decided to try and set up my own voip, and signed up with voip.ms. I managed to set up a PAP2T in about 20 minutes, and, amazingly, I was calling across the country immediately. So far, voice quality is excellent. We'll see how it goes over a period of time and I will give an update in six months or so. Assuming all goes well, it begs the question --'Why doesn't everyone do it this way"?
Assuming your mailbox number is 12345, then:
(<*98:*9712345>S0|*xx|[3469]11S0|0|00|[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|011[2-9]x.|1900xxxxxxx!)
You may also want to do this to allow for 811 dialing:
(<*98:*9712345>S0|*xx|[34689]11S0|0|00|[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|011[2-9]x.|1900xxxxxxx!)
I've been using VOIP.ms now for 2 weeks and its been very good. I’ve been doing business with a customer in Bangkok, Thailand. Most everyone over there uses a cell phone and the way it works in these countries is the caller pays for the call to the cell phone so cell phones can be expensive to call… let alone the long distance charges to go half way around the world.
The first time I called there I used my Bell line… huge mistake!!! A 15 minute call cost me a whopping $38 !!!!! I then started to use Acanac that charged me only 14.4 cents a minute but they started to charge my card $29.95 a month for the service… not the $9.95 it says on their webpage. When I asked them why the $29.95 I was told to get the $9.95 price I’d have to pay for a full year in advance… no way I was going to fall for that scam.
Then I found out about VOIP.ms on the forum and gave them a try too … I setup my ATA in just a few minutes and was making calls. I went with the 4 cent a minute ‘premium’ routing and wow crystal clear calls with no echo or delay.. it was better then Bell that was charging $2.54 a minute… no kidding. I can’t believe I can call Thailand cell phones from Toronto for only 4 cents a minute… this is great it’s saving me a HUGE amount of money!
What I like best is it’s a pre paid service… there are no other charges and no ugly surprises at the end of the month when I open my credit card bill… like with those ‘other guys’!
Agree with most of what you said, but I was a little surprised at the 21c/min rate to call an O2 (UK) cell phone last weekend; compared to 1.14c/min to call a UK landline. Yikes!
Still, I assume that's a good rate relative to the other Co's.
What I like best is it’s a pre paid service… there are no other charges and no ugly surprises at the end of the month when I open my credit card bill… like with those ‘other guys’!
Agree with most of what you said, but I was a little surprised at the 21c/min rate to call an O2 (UK) cell phone last weekend; compared to 1.14c/min to call a UK landline. Yikes!
Still, I assume that's a good rate relative to the other Co's.
...and apparently no taxes either; from a Montreal company.
Thanks for pointing that out, HDTV101; it makes me feel even better. I call the UK a lot and had got used to paying $0.10/min on Rogers (plan), which is ~9x what I now pay to call landlines.
OMG, those Bell Schedule 1 rates are criminal; $0.79/min peak and $0.64/min off-peak for UK landlines. Even the off-peak rate to UK mobiles is still an eye-popping $0.70/min
I'm now looking forward to my sister getting her residential phone setup, having just moved
Use Live Chat and get an update. If you don't see results, check back every day or a few times a day. In my experience you need to keep after them to do stuff.
Not sure what happened, but I cannot make calls out using voip.ms but I can using vbuzzer. Anyone's voip.ms down? I tried with both Toronto and Montreal servers. Hmmm... I just saw 99semaj's message above, and this time, I waited 15 seconds and it dials?! So, I have the same problem. Exactly 15 secs afterwards, the phone dials for PSTN calls.
Not sure what happened, but I cannot make calls out using voip.ms but I can using vbuzzer. Anyone's voip.ms down? I tried with both Toronto and Montreal servers.
Wierd. No problems here at all on outbound calls. I've made a few calls today via the NY server, which is where I've been reg'd since initiating service.
I tried with the NY server, and no problems as well. The problem is with the CAN servers for both Montreal and Toronto servers. I have not tried the other servers.
Oops - I forgot you speak Aastra It appears that you can use a comma to add some digits in front of what you've dialed. The technique is slightly confusing but I think the following would work.
*98,*97[mailbox number]
If I'm correct, this would actually dial *97[mailbox number]*98. But, the system seems to ignore anything after the mailbox number, so the trailing *98 should not cause a problem.
Regarding the time it takes for the call to begin to ring, be sure that your digit timeout is not set unusually high. I doubt this is the case though as a few people have reported this issue so it is most likely a server issue.
I had to go back to a slightly modified default dial plan as the one I was using was causing problems with lost dial tones. I would finish a call and I would not have a dial tone for about 20 seconds.
The one I am using now is:
(<*98:*9712345>S0|*xx|[34689]11|0|00|[2-9]xxxxxx|1xxx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|xxxxxxxxxxxx.)
My dial tone issues have gone away but it takes about 10-15 seconds after dialing the last digit before the rings starts. Not sure what setting controls that.
I'm not sure how a dial plan would keep you from having a dial tone after a call. If you figure that one out, let us know. If the issue returns you may wish to lower the CPC Delay and CPC Duration on the Regional tab of your ATA. Mine is currently set to Delay 10 and Duration 1. This solved the problem for me.
The reason it's taking a long time for you to dial is the dial plan you specified does not allow for 10-digit dialing. If you dial 10 digits, it does match the last sequence, "xxxxxxxxxxxx." However, this sequence is actually for 11 or more digits, so the ATA waits for the long interdigit timeout (10 seconds) before dialing.
If you wish to keep your current dial plan, dialing '1' before the area code should make the call go through immediately as this matches the second to last sequence.
Correction to my previous post.
I seem to be losing my dial tone when making the next call even with the slightly modified default dial plan. It seems intermittent which is why I thought it was dial plan related. I'll have to do more testing on this.
The one I am using now is:
(<*98:*9712345>S0|*xx|[34689]11|0|00|[2-9]xxxxxx|1xxx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|xxxxxxxxxxxx.)
My dial tone issues have gone away but it takes about 10-15 seconds after dialing the last digit before the rings starts. Not sure what setting controls that.
Are you dialing 10-digts for local? Since that's not in your dial plan, you're going to be trying to match these against your xxxxxxxxxxxx. entry, which is likely what's taking so long.
You need to add [2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0 to your dial plan to correct this. You might also want to fix your long-distance string to 1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0 while you're at it.
Finally, if you're not calling international, then it won't matter, but your plan does not include 011+ international dialing either. However, your "catch all" (xxx...) string will grab this ...eventually.
In my case, my dial plans are set for ten-digit dialling, and the Aastra handsets make it obvious when the number has been dialled/terminator received, so I know it's something else at play.
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