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<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:35:54 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>[Anveo] Anveo Canada - Caller ID Name is COMING SOON!</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28252580</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to a secret source, Canadian Caller ID Name for outgoing calls will be released this month.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-01 11:50:09</pubDate>
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<title>Canadian holiday on Monday</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28302968</link>
<description><![CDATA[Happy holiday to our Canadian friends and colleagues marking Victoria Day.   :)

In honor of Queen Victoria, much beer is consumed and in fact the weekend is also known as May Two Four (there being 24 beers in a case).   ;)

The same day Quebec observes National Patriots' Day (Journ&eacute;e nationale des patriotes) which honors the rebellion AGAINST Queen Victoria in 1837.  (She had just recently become Queen).

It's about Victoria and beer either way.   :D

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VoIP content:

Canadian VoIP providers may be a little short staffed on Monday, and the staff who do come in may be a little short too.   

Bear with them.

Everyone be careful, don't drink and drive, and hopefully no one will need to use their VoIP providers to call 911.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-18 18:05:54</pubDate>
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<title>[Anveo] Does outgoing caller ID with Name work for Anveo US numb</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28304277</link>
<description><![CDATA[I see the thread that it will be implemented soon for Canadian numbers but does it currently work for US numbers? If yes - where can name be set?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-19 11:53:19</pubDate>
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<title>[Voip.ms] Toronto server down again ?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28303027</link>
<description><![CDATA[toronto2 is OK....]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-18 18:34:34</pubDate>
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<title>[Equipment] Selling all my locked PAP2&#x27;s</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28279296</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi Guys
I am just wondering if anybody would be interested in buying 2 box full's of linksys pap2's that are locked to either verizon voicewing/vonage since I cant get hold of ric aka dogface05 anymore.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-10 14:06:02</pubDate>
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<title>Any tips/advice on using voip.ms with Avaya IP Office R8?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28304171</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi all,

Implementing Avaya IP Office Essential Edition R8.1 on an IP500v2 box.  I assume it's straightforward but while I wait for the hardware to arrive, are there any tips or issues anyone has come across using voip.ms with this?  Thanks!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-19 10:56:20</pubDate>
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<title>[Asterisk] VoIP over wifi limitation</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28298080</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello, i am testing voip over wifi as my project work,for mobile device, I have installed a trixbox, a version of asterisk server on virtual machine running on Vitual box,
Using an Huawei Echolife router HG520c.
Tried call from laptop to mobile device,worked fine, mobile device to mobile device also worked, but i didnt got the occasion to simulate busy hour like 10 simultaneous communication.To check if some latency and delay will appear or the jitter would increase, because of lack of equipment.
I use sipdroid as soft phone for Android os phone and Vmobile for black berry.
I also noticed that with the increase of distance (between the device and the wifi router the quality of call decreased and sometime drop) for nokia e71 a more than 8 meters from the wifi router the call drop, but with android phone it works well, i would like to know it it is due to the weakness of the transceiver?also why with the distance the jitter increase, can some one explain it mathematically, simple formula with distance and bandwidth and loss ratio as variable.
Is wifi enought reliable to handle 10 simultaneous call with acceptable call quality?
Thanks you for having read me.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-16 22:18:10</pubDate>
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<title>[Anveo Direct] Launches Innovative Call Termination Service</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28252348</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not often you see a new product announcement which will have a great impact on the future technology and services offered in VOIP market place. Today is one of those days.

Back in 2010 Anveo team has launched Anveo.com Retail service which offers unmatched set of features, quality of service, solid infrastructure design and great technology. All of that allows Anveo.com to maintain a technological advantage and ongoing innovations.    
It is possible due to 'thinking outside the box' approach and highly experienced R&D team.

And now with the same spirit Anveo team is launching  a new Anveo Direct call termination service which will shake the market with innovative features and flexibility/quality it offers. 

So what makes Anveo Direct Call Termination service different from the rest of providers?

It is our amazing and highly configurable LCR (Least Cost Routing) technology which gives you complete control over how your calls are routed with instant access to over 30 Tier 1 carriers/routes (like Verizon, Comcast, Level 3, TATA Communications, ISP Telecom, BICS, IDT and more).

Anveo Direct users have an option of using pre-configured routing options (such as 'lowest cost across all carriers', 'lowest cost across standard routes', 'lowest cost across prime routes') or configure custom routing options and that is where the fun begins :-) 

Custom routing option allows a user to select which carriers/routes will be used for routing his/her calls, configure automatic failover to the next carrier when one has failed to accept a call, select how many concurrent calls is allowed for a given trunk, select Rate Cap if needed, select the order of carriers when routing calls (by least cost, random order or by service quality). With custom routing options Anveo Direct offers much higher reliability and call delivery success rate than a typical call termination service.

Another great feature is 'Route Block'; users can prevent a certain carrier/route from sending calls to a given destination. 
For example; if end user is reporting DTMF issue on his calls to Rome (Italy), then Anveo Direct user can easily add a Route Block which will prevent future calls to Rome, Italy from being routed though a problematic carrier.

Another very handy and unique feature not available from other providers is access to full SIP session trace for any call :-). SIP Session trace is a great tool which helps to investigate interconnect issues.

Anveo Direct uses real-time 1 second billing (except for Mexico), does NOT proxy Media (RTP direct from the carrier) and uses IP authentication. Each account can create unlimited number of Call Termination trunks and each Call Termination trunk can have its own dialing prefix, LCR options and the list of authorized IP address.

For those interested in some technical details; with over 30 different carriers/routes the number of destinations (price entries for lookups) is so high (close to 3 million entries) that we had to use high performance algorithms and data models to effectively locate routes (based on the phone number dialed). 
We were able to achieve extremely high lookup speeds and thus VERY low PDD (Post Dial Delay). The average PDD added by Anveo Direct is less than 1/10 of a second!!! 

For the last 6 month Anveo retail service has been using Anveo Direct for Inbound calls and as of April 2nd Anveo Retail was switched to exclusively use Anveo Direct Outbound Services with outstanding results.

I am sure that the launch of Anveo Direct Call Termination services will force other providers to innovate and catch up...

We welcome you to try Anveo Direct service with $0.60 test funds at http://www.anveodirect.com]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-01 10:47:49</pubDate>
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<title>[General] Problem with wholesale aggregates</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28303893</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am finding a problem with the wholesale aggregate service providers and that is they are always innovating their services, but failing to follow-through more on the support of their basic delivery of service.

I have noticed this using a few aggregate service providers and I have finally said the hell with that, and setup shop with two Tier 1 providers direct.

I will soon launch a wholesale offering that will put you in the driver seat of control over service and allot less of this flashy website crap.  The more these things change, the more work for the provider of services.  

I have had to spend over 4 hours yesterday alone (on my day off), to service our network because one of the aggregate service providers made changes to the way they send their DID calls, adding the +1 to the number which goofed up over 865 of our DID customers.

of that 4 hour time frame, most of it was talking to customers to try to trouble shoot.  Before I saw in a call sample from the provider that they changed the call header address.

This is the type of stuff that drives me crazy, and why do they insist on making allot of these changes.

This may be the reason why possibly thousands of DID numbers when dark yesterday as I see from other posts.

So here is the point of my message, I am going to complete the build out and then start offering services as a wholesale provider.  The only thing that you'll know stands between you and the Tier 1 provider is me.  BUT know this, I am not going to be introducing flashy crap.  And there will be no changes once they are placed in service.  If we are going to change, we'll launch a new server and let you make tests and then make changes before we shut down the old.

Its time to get back to the business of what we do best and that is service our retail customers!

I am available for chat if you are interested in working with me.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-19 07:05:58</pubDate>
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<title>What is tolerable SNR ration on WiFi for reliable VoIP call</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28303890</link>
<description><![CDATA[WHat would be an tollerable SNR signal to noise ration to perform a reliable voip call on a wifi network, since voip is a real time service and need better flow of data, thank you]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-19 06:55:51</pubDate>
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<title>[CallCentric] Callcentric Directory - does anybody use it?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28298425</link>
<description><![CDATA[I wasn't sure about the Callcentric directory, how it really worked, or if it was useful, so I chose not to list my name in it for now. Does anybody here find it useful?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-17 01:09:55</pubDate>
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<title>DIDforSale - support issues</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28303717</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've been using DIDforSale for a while for DIDs with special requirements and have been pretty happy with them for the most part.  They've had a couple of outages but those outages have generally been short-lived.

They experienced another outage recently that they didn't know about and offered to check the logs to try and shed some light on the issue.  I gave them detailed call info and was looking forward to finding out what they were seeing on their end since the causes of these sorts of problems can be interesting at times.

That was April 6th.

They quietly closed the ticket a few times with no response and after I started opening them right back up they're just leaving the ticket open now.

So it would appear that either their support staff doesn't really know how to go into the call logs (pretty damn scary if you ask me), they're too embarrassed to give me the info on the cause of their outage, or they just don't care (which is probably worse).

I'll let everyone know when they figure out how to look up the calls in their logs.  We all had to start somewhere.

- Phil]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-19 01:07:02</pubDate>
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<title>Widespread DID outage?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28303688</link>
<description><![CDATA[Was there some sort of widespread DID outage earlier this evening?  My wife tried to call me on my office phone and she said that the call wouldn't go through.  So I did some checking and discovered that several of my DIDs through two different providers weren't working, but others with the same providers were.  The free IPKall and CallCentric DIDs were working just fine.

There was no incoming traffic associated with any calls coming in to the server with the problem DIDs.  I'm wondering if XO or one of the other big carriers was having a problem.  All DIDs appear to be working fine again now.

- Phil]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-19 00:36:34</pubDate>
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<title>[General] Good advices for business systems</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28300965</link>
<description><![CDATA[For SIP trunking,  I've found it much more reliable to have calls sent directly to your static IP,  as opposed to using a registration based system with a dynamic IP.     Reliability is better this way in my finding.

Just some friendly advice to all of those who are using business systems.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-17 19:53:42</pubDate>
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<title>[CallCentric] Can I simply cancel 911?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28201676</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello:

I live in Canada.

I use my free Callcentric phone number with GV to transfer calls to my cell phone.

Is there a problem if I cancel the 'mandatory' 911?

Thanks,

Rob.
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Rob.
Blog: http://googlevoiceforcanadians.com/]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-04-15 10:07:00</pubDate>
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<title>[General] Cost of VoIP not much less than landline?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28285265</link>
<description><![CDATA[I just got three Obi110 devices (one for my sister, one for my niece, one for my household).  I can set them up with Google Voice and get free service for the rest of this year (and maybe next if Google is still generous), but Google listens in on calls and uses the words/contents it mines from the phone calls for targeted advertising and saves all calls forever.... the price to be paid for "free" service.  Maybe Google will stop this and give some privacy if and when they start charging?  I wouldn't necessary dump GV if they started charging, as long as the GV+Obi110 cost is about half of what my landline costs.

The Obi devices can be used with Callcentric, voip.ms, VOIPo, callwithus and other non-free VoIP providers that don't have the Google privacy invasion.  But some of these VoIP providers are almost as expensive as my ~$27/month AT&T POTS line(*).  Callcentric is $25.90/month for unlimited inbound and outbound calls (about what Vonage charges!).  VOIPo is $18/month for unlimited calling in and out (don't think I'd trust them enough to prepay for 1 or 2 years).  voip.ms and callwithus don't have unlimited outbound calling.

I'm kind of surprised that a VoIP line could be as expensive as my landline.  My niece's landline is about $16/month (same features as mine, but she qualifies for Lifeline) and these pay VoIP services would cost just about as much, or more, than her POTS line.  Aren't there any decent Obi110-compatible providers that provided unlimited calling in and out with all the basic calling features (voicemail, call waiting, call forwarding, 3-way calling, caller ID) for around $10/month?

So, from the research I've gather thus far:

- Google Voice + Obi110:  Very good, better than MagicJack or NetTalk, but not private like a pay VoIP would be and no tech support or E911 (but E911 can be had for ~$1.50/month or so).
- MagicJack and NetTalk:  Very inexpensive for a year's worth of service, but crap
- Vonage:  Why even consider them?  They cost almost as much as a POTS line (or way more than a POTS line with Lifeline) and no better than Callcentric, Ooma)
- Ooma:  Great, pricey upfront.  Maybe a better deal than GV+Obi110 with the privacy thing figured in?

* My landline has unlimited inbound calls, unlimited outbound local and toll-free calls, zero calling features (other than Touch-Tone that became no extra cost about 20 years ago) :(.  No Lifeline (don't qualify).  Long distance through Pioneer Telephone runs about $1-2/month extra.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-13 00:25:26</pubDate>
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<title>VoIP Warning from Mobile Providers</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28296997</link>
<description><![CDATA[This morning I received an unsolicited text message from Telus.  Since we regularly discuss mobile VoIP solutions here as well as 911, I thought you might find this message interesting.

Since Telus presumably sent this to all of their customers, this must be a problem that is becoming more and more common.
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I represent AcroVoice, a full service Canadian VoIP Provider.
Buy your Obihai ATA shipped from within Canada.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-16 15:51:35</pubDate>
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<title>[CallCentric] Sub-Accounts &#x26;amp; more ... coming in May</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28218883</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just rec'd this email:

Great news, some exciting new features and enhancements are on their way! Next month we will be releasing an updated version of the My Callcentric Account Portal! 

Some highlights of the upcoming My Callcentric Account Portal include: 

* Have multiple devices? No Problem! With "Callcentric Extensions" you will be able to provision additional Sub-Accounts to your existing/new account!

* Pestered by telemarketers? Friend call from a new number and want to add it to your phone book? "Call Treatments" will be just one click away and accessible from your last calls made/received lists

* Flexible and secure, our new portal will allow you to provision Sub-Accounts in real-time and you will be able to set important account security features that are global for the entire account or device specific

We know we have been "quiet" recently and we want to assure you that our commitment to providing unique/innovative services is as strong as ever. Keep an eye out over the next several weeks as we will be formally launching more new features, enhancements, and service specials!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-04-19 22:01:03</pubDate>
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<title>pbxinaflash.com/community site down?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28296627</link>
<description><![CDATA[Error message [404] 404 Not Found for pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php port 80 on Thursday, 16-May-2013 12:48:10 CDT

Anyone else seeing this?
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(1) It's either 99&cent; or $0.99; not .99&cent; (2) It's "so MUCH fun" not "so fun"]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-16 13:50:03</pubDate>
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<title>Teksavvy Tektalk</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28277198</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hey all, Ive had tektalk working for a few weeks and all of sudden today it stopped registering.  Their support asked me to move the ATA in front of my router however this to me is not a solution as Ive had it working behind the router since I signed up for the service.  Any ideas why it may not be working?  I have the ATA's IP in my DMZ so ports shouldnt be an issue and nothing has changed hardware wise so not sure what could be the issue - Ive reset both my router and ATA but still not registering.  ATA is the CISCO SPA122]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-09 20:09:28</pubDate>
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