studentlikeu
join:2005-12-25
Mission Viejo, CA
|  [General] VOIP and AutoConference
I've VOIP phone up and running in other country. I was wondering how is it possible to call on any of the phone in that country using this one VOIP phone. So, I guess, I want some feature by which
1. I call my VOIP in other coutry,
2. Instead of anwsering machine, I get dial tone from local phone
3. Now I can dial any phone number locally in that country using my one VOIP phone and one local phone.
my question is vague but all help would be greatly appreciated.. |
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ejrobinson
Premium
join:2003-05-16
Miami Beach, FL
 ·magicjack.com
| This is possible, but will require a box that has fxs and fxo at the foreign country's end. You'd plug the local phone line into that box as well as the vonage box's. However, you would need some way to protect yourself from others using this. In other words a password to activate the dial-up in the other country.
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studentlikeu
join:2005-12-25
Mission Viejo, CA
| Could you please kind enough to tell me more details. Yeah, password protection is no problem but I'm not sure what kind of Physical Hardware I need to buy. Perhaps, some link to website where it is available and I can pick up clue from that.
Thanks a bunch |
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ejrobinson
Premium
join:2003-05-16
Miami Beach, FL | Rather than try to explain it all, do a google on fxs and then on fxo. The explanations should give you the information you need.
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DracoFelis
Premium
join:2003-06-15
| reply to studentlikeu
It's going to be a pain to setup, no matter how you do it. And also remember, that some countries make such "bypass of the phone systems" illegal (so be sure to check into the local laws of any country you want to try this with).
That said, I know of two ways to do this. Both of them are a pain to setup for this feature, and (while I use an SPA-3000 for other uses) I haven't personally tried doing this with either product (so YMMV).
However, an SPA-3000 (around $90 from Voxilla.com) can be programmed to do this. But you will need to have a friend in the other country that both has "high speed internet" and a local phone line to hook up to the SPA-3000. Also, the "phone line gateway" features of the SPA-3000 are amongst the hardest features of the adapter to setup (so don't say I didn't warn you). If you want to try this approach, I would highly recommend reviewing the LinkSys/Sipura forum at Voxilla.com first (to get some idea what you are getting yourself into).
The other way this is common to do this, is with a computer running "Asterisk" software. In this case, you would hook up Asterisk to handle both the VoIP and the attached phone lines. Again, this is not for the "faint of heart". But once you get asterisk up, you should be able to route any "phone line" you have access to (both physical phone line, and VoIP "lines") to any other location you have access to. So if both you and a friend in another country had *, you could share each other's physical phone lines (by remotely transferring the calls to each other over the internet). Again, this may be a pain to setup (and I don't personally use * myself), so YMMV.
And remember, while such "bypass" is generally legal for private citizens to do in the USA (at least that's my understanding as a non-lawyer), the same can not be said for all countries. So don't say I didn't warn you to check local laws first (if you don't want to get into serious legal trouble)!!! |
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