Take control of your communications

My cellular package was costing me $145.00 a month, half my grocery bill.

Voip.ms cost me $1.00 a month for my number then $0.008 a minute on phone calls world wide, I get a free fax number and SMS, voice messages emailed to me as wav files.

I can use a PC app on my Linux OS laptop for phone and SMS or on my smartphone, oh yea I tossed the simm card and use wifi instead. Without the simm card my battery will last two days before charging.

Questions I'm here to help, no question this thread will die of natural causes.

All I can get where I live(besides dialup) is satellite internet and there is a monthly bandwidth limit. How well will that setup work for me do you think? Will it work with the SIM card and smart phone? Would I be able to get internet without wifi? Sorry for all the questions. I always hear of other people using setups like this and it never works for my needs. Thanks in advance!

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Originally Posted by Hypoman

All I can get where I live(besides dialup) is satellite internet and there is a monthly bandwidth limit. How well will that setup work for me do you think? Will it work with the SIM card and smart phone? Would I be able to get internet without wifi? Sorry for all the questions. I always hear of other people using setups like this and it never works for my needs. Thanks in advance!

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Asstra voip phone tested on satellite internet worked with slight delay, which was very annoying.

Voip is an acronym for Voice over internet protocol, the voice packets are sent via the internet.

The Asstra telephone was configured DHCP, I could take the phone anywhere there was a modem and plug it in the phone would acquire an IP number to enable service. Voice packets are small and do not require high speed internet.

Using the voip.ms app on your cellular phone is not going to use a lot of data.

At at first when you get a voip.ms account some countries by default will be blocked, after you email a picture such as a drivers license with the same address you used for the account they will unblock counties previously not available to you. Not sure about US protocol on which countries are black listed.

I have lent my phone to friends who have made calls to the Philippines and Trinidad, I myself have made calls to the UK. Had I used my cell phone the cost would have been through the roof whereas using voip.ms those calls were billed out at $0.01 cents a minute at 6 second increments.

For those of you using pre-paid calling cards with only 4 or five minutes left on them just toss the card because you may experience a disconnection during the call when the funds run out. With voip.ms if you have $20.00 in your account the only monthly fee would be for minutes used and the number. Your only billed for the calls you make, if the person your calling is a voip.ms customer the call is free
plus all 1 800 numbers.

With voip.ms you can have a 1-800 number good for USA or USA/Canada or International, the per minute cost is a bit more.

Regarding your choice of telephone number the locations are numerious, for instance you could have a virtual office in Brazil or Australia with out leaving home.

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If anyone here would like to make a call to a foreign country email me your tele number which can be a cell or land line. Then I will set you up on a callback.

I will obtain a local number so there is no long distance charge to you, then you call that number you will get a busy signal hang up and the callback will ring you back with a dial tone - make your call.

You can all any country on that list in the above thread or country form the list below..

Then come back to this thread and tell us what yo think.

gille710@gmail.com

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If you have a telephone number that you have had for years in most cases you can have that number ported over to your voip account.

Also if you choose a voip number from your local or another city or country, as an example by using your cell, home of office number as your caller ID your VoIP number will remain anyomous any person you call will on redial reach the number you used for caller ID.

Here is a trick I once did, I was aware that a person I knew would read the caller ID before deciding to pick up or not. Usually not, This I saw first hand while visiting one day so I new they were not specifically targeting my calls.

Anyhow I had something I wanted to chat to Allan about, my first call went unanswered. I knew that Allan worked part time at the service station so I decided to use the service station number as my caller ID. My second call was immediately answered, his first words were, where are you calling from , my reply home.

Never did tell the &*^% how I did that.

By the way since I've been using voip six years I've only had one telemarketer call my number and he was dumb enough to display his number which I immediately added to my do not call list otherwise all anonymous callers get a message this number is no longer in service.

It looks like a good deal, but I would question whether it would be wise to automatically hook to any WiFi network. I have turned my WiFi off because of the security risks of connecting to any network in range of my phone.

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It looks like a good deal, but I would question whether it would be wise to automatically hook to any WiFi network. I have turned my WiFi off because of the security risks of connecting to any network in range of my phone.

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My voip calls are more secure than the ones you make from your cellular or land line, Your biggest risk is being hijacked with maleware having some jerk encrypt your files for ransom.

Our Governments have taught us to be paranoid.


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Originally Posted by alloy2

My voip calls are more secure than the ones you make from your cellular or land line, Your biggest risk is being hijacked with maleware having some jerk encrypt your files for ransom.

Our Governments have taught us to be paranoid.


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So, the phone will only work when you are in range of a trusted network or will it also work as a traditional cell on a digital network? How does it make and receive calls when you are at the McDonalds in Northville NY?

Yes voip works from digital network, problem is this service usually is supplied by your cellular provider, as long as the cell phone is turned on you will receive your voip incoming via your choice of app. From your digital network or WIFI.

I also have the zoiper soft phone installed on my wifi capable Samsung camera so now my camera has also become a telephone.

Here is the link to the voip.ms wiki, here you will find most answers to your questions along with configuration samples for most devices.

Welcome - VoIP.ms Wiki

Should you choose a voip number for personal use, the number has two channels.

There are several ways to utilise those channels, my Asstra in addition to the wired set came with a wireless set if my wife was using the wired set I could also make a call on the wireless at the same time. You must remember while both channels are in use your paying $0.001 per minute x 2

Both of my phones are hold and call transfer capable using the zoiper soft-phone I call set up a conference call with video.

Should you choose a 1-800 number the number of channels is unlimited, so you could build a PBX system using an old PC and Asterisk an open source PBX. Using your own PBX you can now hook up ten or a thousand telephone one or more of those telephones could be reside in remote locations half way around the world.

Often a company will have two or more locations a PBX such as the Asterisk ties in every location into one big presence.

Asterisk.org

https://www.freepbx.org/

https://freeswitch.org/

This URl give a full list of available open source telecommunications software.

Open Source VOIP Software - voip-info.org

This PBX being sold utilises an older PC loaded with Tribox free open source software. Asking $409.00 and sold two already.

A PC based PBX does not require a whole lot of RAM.

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A PBX is a great project for older hardware. Linux can be made much more secure than a Windows machine. Ubuntu is graphics-heavy, but an old Pentium IV can run Xubuntu pretty smoothly.

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Very use full information.

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Your welcome.

From my voip account for my voice mail I choose to have my messages sent as attachments via email.

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