Home VOIP gateway for outgoing calls while I'm on the road.

Tony Toews · 2005-10-23T02:04:59+00:00

FolksSome of the terminology baffles me so I'll ask. I want setup a gateway on myhomeADSL network. The idea is that if I'm out of town I can somehow hit my ownPC/network at home from my laptop at clients or hotel room, with my speakers andmicrophone, and make an outgoing phone call from my own phone. (I have the software in place so I know what IP address is at my home network. Icancurrently Terminal Server in quite nicely.)Yes, yes, I know I could use Skype or whatever but I want to do this all myself.Among other things the phone number on the callerid will be my own.Thanks, Tony

Oct 23, 2005 23 Replies

Rate this thread:

Tony Toews 20 years ago

No considerable wrath at all.

Ohh, I did not know you could configure your caller ID to be whatever you want. Actually that could be a bit scary as you could spoof someone's phone number.

I also did not realize you could get prepaid services with no monthly fees. Very, interesting. Got any URLs of such services handy? Heck, that'd be cheaper than my current long distance even when I'm at home.

That does change the equation quite a bit. Especially given Wolfgang's negative comments regarding the echo and sound volumes.

Tony

Vote

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht 20 years ago

I use both Gefachi and Teliax

formatting link

). They have roughly similar plans (no monthly for an outgoing-only account and

2cents/min.)

For incoming calls we have two ipkall numbers. The biggest problem with those was that our local friends object to making expensive long distance calls to call us across town. Thats why I ended up getting teliax, just for the local phone number. The trick is to look for pay-as-you-go "business" plans.

formatting link

One thing I didn't realize when I signed up for an incoming number with teliax was that incoming calls cost the same as outgoing. It threw me for a bit of a loop at first, but than I realized that compared to my total POTS bill it isn't a big enough deal moneywise to worry about yet.

-wolfgang

Vote