Thread: How I'd like VOIP to work...
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colnago is offline colnago
2010-01-14 , 17:13
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Originally Posted by chrismint View Post
My current phone setup is as follows -
Home number, through Virgin package
Mobile number, through Orange, on an N900

What I'd like -
VOIP number, that rings both my home and mobile
Mobile number, that rings my mobile
N900 that can make calls using both systems
Home phone that can make calls using VOIP over my home wifi

There are probably some people who would prefer just -
VOIP number, that rings both house and N900
Data package from mobile carrier

All of this is technologically possible on the current system, but anyone found a solution? Only thing I can think of is a Skype number for your house, and get a wifi router that will handle this with wifi/ethernet handsets which is great until your house burns down and you find out you can't call emergency numbers from skype

Any ideas?
What you need is a VoIP service which supports "Ring Blast". Both Vonage and Google Voice will do this for you...however I'm sure there are others which will do the same. You may need to research "PBX service" for your area. This will allow calls to one central number, to ring multiple numbers simultaneously.

From there, you need a VoIP/SIP provider who will provide you your SIP settings for configuration on your own device(s) (ATA for your home, softphone software for PC, or SIP client on cell). Callcentric.com is one company for example. Vonage will not provide this information, regardless of which account you have with them, though there are methods of negotiating around their security on the web.

In a nutshell, if you can't find a provider that will support "ring blast", and now that I think about it, I don't know if GVoice will ring multiple numbers simultaneously or "in order" (called ring lists). but what you could do is:

1. Setup Google Voice (or home VoIP service if ring blast support offered) account to ring home number and cell number when unique Google Voice number is dialed

2. Setup home VoIP service (callcentric for example) with an ATA/Router

3. Setup SIP client on 900 with (callcentric) SIP settings

What you are trying to accomplish is easily acheived, and basically what I am trying to do. My only issues are with Vonage not providing SIP settings, so I'm shopping SIP providers. Its just a question of finding a SIP provider who offers "Ring Blast" or "Ring Lists", whichever will work for you. You just want to make sure you don't have too many "Points of failure" involved.
Last edited by colnago; 2010-01-14 at 17:16.