On 5/18/06, Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome thanks Jim. I just got a FWD account and my number is > 773414(@fwd.pulver.com) for anyone who wants to sip me! > _______________________________________________
Hi, I have been using FWD for some time now and it it has some handy features that I find quite useful. I am using a Sipura SPA-3000 which is a FXS and FXO analog adaptor. (Sipura is owned by Linksys which is owned by Cisco) It is a box about the size of a cigarette pack, and has 3 ports (plus a connector to a power brick) The first port is an RJ45 port which connects to the Internet. (works OK thru a router.) The second port is an RJ11 connector and connects to a standard telephone. (this is the FXS port) The third port is also an RJ11 connector but this plugs in to a standard PSTN phone line. This is the FXO port.. I have this set up so that when a call comes in on the PSTN line it is call forwarded to a FWD number. This allows me to answer my phone anywhere in the world, as long as I am connected to the Internet and have a soft phone running. If I do not answer the call, it goes to FWD voice mail. There is no charge for using FWD voice mail and it allows you to record a personal greeting. What is even better, when someone leaves a voice mail, FWD send me an email with a wav file attachment so I can listen to my voice mail on any computer connected to the Internet that has a sound card. The SPA-3000 adapter allows me to call from a remote location using a soft phone through the FWD network to make calls from my home phone line. This is done using a pin so that hackers can't hijack my phone line. I found this feature quite handy when I was visiting Australia, as it allowed me to make free phone calls to anywhere in Calgary. My Telus PSTN line that I am using is the basic line with no added features. The call forward and voice mail are all provided by FWD. Also the features I am using require only the SPA-3000 adaptor and an Internet connection. No computer is required. The SPA-3000 adaptor does use standard SIP protocol and will work quite well with Asterisk if you require some of the more sophisticated features that this software will provide. One of the other features of FWD is that you can register your phone at more than one location. That means that if you have a phone in your home and your office, when you receive a call it will ring at both locations. Peter _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
