Yep, and provides the option of emailing you the actual audio file, or just a URL to it, which can be useful on different occasions.
You can record your own outgoing message too, if that hasn't already been said.
As it's an 01 number and "geographic" (in that it maps to an area of the UK) it ought to be portable. As BT are discontinuing the service I wonder if you could persuade them to pick up the porting fee? I doubt it but if you don't ask, you don't get. B-)
On Sunday 28 April 2013 23:26 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:
The N300A is on a public IP - but other SIP clients behind NAT work too, eg my Android phone on NAT'd WIFI is fine - rings for incoming calls.
The N300A should have no problems.
On my useage (14 months worth) they are a couple of quid more than SIPGate but that doesn't take into account the £1.20/month/number rent al.
As A&A are my ISP I've just bought a number to play with. SIP to POTS works with audio both ways but POTS to SIP doesn't have incoming audio (not a surprise...). Of course this on the C server but theoretically with the STUN enabled but maybe that only works on the A server. The online setup information is suitably vague and out of date...
I don't think my ADSL router is that clever as fair as I can tell.
I do like that feature but once I get things working might want to use i t via the tablet (or future smart phone) and public/free WiFi so would hav e to turn it off. A decent password (mixed case/numbers/symbols) ought to
be good enough anyway.
If A&A would give me another IPv4 address on Home::1 I might consider them but the email only voicemail and no online storeage is a bit of downside. Can't get calls or voicemail if Mr Murphy Man has put a digger through the ADSL line... SIPGate can be dialled into.
Thanks for that couldn't find out how many "Freedays" you got for your money. Only that it varied by amount and payment method. So effectively around a fiver a month plus how ever long it takes you to spend the tenner.
Eh? Thought UK Landline was "free" during your "Freedays" period. Then goes to 2p/min .
So where do the 300 free minutes per rolling 7 days per IP fit in?
Being you I thought it might be. B-)
Think I'll give SIPGate a go, they seem to offer nice things at sensible prices. May even use them for calls as providing nice things like decent voicemail and support does cost money. Voipcheap is very tempting though...
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask...
Well I've signed up and it "worked out of the box" though I can't test two way audio SIP calling PSTN without giving the account £10. As I wa nt to port a couple of numbers I'm reluctant to credit this "test" account
if I won't be able to use that credit with those ported numbers.
So is the SIPGate Basic limited to a single number per account or can yo u have multiple numbers sharing the account and credit? I've asked SIPGate but it might take a couple of days for them to answer according to the auto ticket I got.
My mistake, it is 90 days of free calls to certain numbers, not 60...
Here is how it works...
You top-up a tenner's worth of credit (which costs £12.31) for doing that, you get 90 days of free calls to certain destinations, limited to 300 minutes per 7 days (the 7 days seems to be based on when you topped up, so if you did it on a Monday, you mustn't exceed 300 minutes until the following Monday when it resets.
If you try to make more than one call at the same time (even to 0800 numbers) the second call will be chargeable even if you still have free minutes available
Once you have used your 300 minutes in a week up, any further calls are chargeable until the week resets.
Once you have run out of free days, then you start using the credit up until you top-up again and get more free days.
You can have multiple devices registered to the same account, in my set-up, there are three Grandstream SIP phones, each has "line 1" as VoIPCheap, so calls will default to using this account.
Try calling an 0800 number, and see if they can hear you :-)
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