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Ok, but what is then recommended in terms of this service?

Kind regards, George

Ok, but what is then recommended in terms of this service?

Kind regards, George

Then Skype is the wrong answer. Almost any other VoIP provider will do. Most of them are cheaper than Skype anyway.

miguel

I think you should tell us in slightly more detail what the problem is that you're looking to solve. Do you have very high LD bills? Do you want lots of fancy phone features? Do you prefer a kind of phone service where 911 doesn't work? Do you just hate Verizon? Do you want to keep a local Boston number?

I doubt it.

That doesn't seem like a very good idea.

There's not much point until you know what service you want to use it with. I agree with the comment that Skype is probably not what you want.

If you want VoIP service that resembles your POTS service, sign up with pretty much any VoIP carrier other than Skype, get a terminal adapter, find the place on your house where the Verizon line comes in and unhook it, then plug a cord from your VoIP phone to the house wiring, and it'll run your current phones so long as there aren't too many of them. That's what I do with Lingo, driving two or three phones. Works pretty well and is definitely cheaper than POTS for my calling pattern.

Skype is just software and different to any other VoIP telephony, it will only work with an computer ON. ATA's like Sipura won't work with Skype ! They plug directly in to an ethernet port of a router and work independently from a computer, with SIP based VoIP services. Regards, Martin

The bulk of our telephone charges come from the international calls, which include pretty much all of Europe and especially East Europe (Serbia, Croatia) There we have family and we call pretty regulary.

I am not sure how much lower would the international rates be, since in the US the market is very saturated and they provide much cheaper phone calls to begin with.

I am not as interested in having another Boston number, but if I was to go with a VoIP number, I would perhaps choose a UK number as there I lived for a while and have many friends.

So you are suggesting a SIP provider and getting some equipment? If possible, can you please recommend a good provider given my needs above as well as a decent priced converter so I can hook up the telephone. I understand there are RJ45 to RJ11 adapters that I can hookup to my broadband router.

Kind regards, george B.

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I still can't tell can't tell what problem you want to solve. If you just want to make a lot of cheap calls to Europe, look at Lingo or Boradvoice or iconnecthere, all of which have plans that include free calling to much of Europe and reasonable rates to the Balkans, around

If you don't care if anyone can call you on your VoIP, also look at Net2phone's PC->phone service which is quite cheap.

No, I'm just suggesting getting a SIP provider. As I've said at least three times now, the provider gives you equipment that works with their service.

R's, John

If you want a free UK number then you should register with sipgate.co.uk using a UK proxy, or get somebody in UK to do it. If you get your friends in UK (or anywhere) to use sipgate or one of their peer partners (Free World Dialup etc.) then you can have entirely free calls with them. Otherwise you can pre-pay for calls to PSTN UK or International numbers.

You can use soft phone like Xten Lite to start with. Probably the best ATA to get is one of the Sipura range, but they are not cheap. Linksys PAP2 should be good enough, but as I understand it the ones sold in US are locked to Vonage, but here in UK they are available unlocked. By far the best solution is a router with built in VoIP ports because they will have QoS which will give priority to voice traffic, e.g. Draytek Vigor