do any of you guys use voip? if so which company did you decide on?

anyone?

i use skype and teamspeak because im a cheap arse

sure do. We bought a set of four el cheapo phones and went with mynetphone. no complaints

I use iinet's VOIP service as part of my net/phone package. Works well. I'm on an old plan so don't pay the $10 monthly service charge thankfully.

I use IINET, I got it as a bundle with my net.. IT's good when it works, but drops out (not during a call) but sometimes when I try to dial out, I get a busy tone when the line is infact not busy... It's very intermittant and annoying. I use a Billion 7404VGP modem thingy.

My dad used these guys for a while but wasn't happy with the service; mostly dial-outs just didn't happen randomly and dropped calls locally, he reckons the STD and overseas type calls were ok, but he couldnt call his brother sometimes who used Engin.

He now just uses $99 capped mobile [$250 max each month] fone for everything.

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We use Nodephone and now upgraded to Nodephone 2. Cant complain.. It has inbuilt answering machine which sends the voice call to your email address which then i have sent to my phone email address...
also works on my N95

You looking for using internal in a company or just for personal use?

We run Cisco Unified Comms Manager with some custom software built around it internally.

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I use iinet's voip and with no monthly fee since im old sckewl.

I use a Cisco ATA186 for it which i plug a cordless phone into. Works perfectly with crystal clear sound quality and no drop outs.

I actually don't use my landline for anything else apart from bringing adsl into my house. I have a modem plugged into it which answers telemarkerters but i turned off the speaker so now i don't notice them.

We use an Asterisk server that hosts around 100 extensions and connects to the outside world via a Digium PRI card ( and a couple of Faktortel lines over IAX in case optus goes down ). It's Trixbox based, but I've written a bunch of custom AGI's etc to make it do exactly what we want. Apart from an initial bad choice in handsets ( Grandstream GXP2000 ) it's been brilliant. We even have remote staff with local handsets via VPN, not to mention softphones on laptops (and even trialled on SmartPhone/PDAs ).

It was all done in house and saved us well over $100k in initial setup/purchasing, and is easier to maintain ( adds/removes/changes ) than a traditional PBX, so saves us money/time there as well.

I use a nortel CS1000 with an 1140e handset... its like i'm dialing pstn all the time.

Spock, I didn't realise you'd figured out how to use a normal phone let alone VOIP?

I use a nortel CS1000 with an 1140e handset... its like i'm dialing pstn all the time.

what's pstn?

I use iinet's voip and with no monthly fee since im old sckewl.

me too.

have saved thousands on phonebills since getting it a couple of years ago.

a comparison from how it worked out in my house - 3 calls in 3 days to sydney on the telstra land line cost more than 6 months of ringing sydney every day over voip (all phonecalls 1hr+) with iinet

no drop outs, sound quality is excellent.

the landline here is only used for incoming calls now by people that dont have (read: i dont want them to have) the voip number.
theory goes, if its someone i dont mind calling me, theyll have and use the voip number.
probably had about 5 outbound calls made on landline since getting voip.

i just use a 2 base cordless system plugged into the modem/router/voip/thing
billion 7401 vgp+m. works a treat

Signed up with pennytel just the other day, got a voice box series 2 (engin) which is actually a spa3000 from DSE, $69. They're not locked until you connect them to the internet.

So stuck the pennytel details in... alls sweet so far. 0.08c a call include some overseas coutries. And a free dial in number.

what's pstn?

Public Switched Telephone Network

ie. Telstra.


Monige: a fellow nortel user! We're running an Option 81C at QR. You a telecomms tech?

I'm another with iinet's VOIP for free deal. I'm using an SPA-3k; which rocks - once it was setup. Not being terribly technically minded it was a chore to get working, but well worth it in the long run.

Spending time working out call costs and setting appropriate rules in the VOIP box feels like penny pinching, but every time I work out what the phone bill would have been if I didn't set rules correctly I smile - so its worth sitting down with a call cost sheet for VOIP and Fixed line and setting your box up accordingly. Might be small change each month but it adds up!

We use Cisco Call Manager Express with Cisco Unity Express for voicemail, it runs on a Cisco 2811, calls to the PBX go out through PRI on 2x ISDN lines.

Calls to our branch offices are re-directed through the site-to-site VPN.

Approximately 100 phones in the London office, and 30 in the Birmingham office, with advanced call centre functionality for our sales department.

yeah its just for home use :)

i don't care for you quips Mr Hardware

oh.... :(
but i learnt them all off you....

Monige: a fellow nortel user! We're running an Option 81C at QR. You a telecomms tech?

No... I'm not, I'm a lowly service support analyst.

Do you work in RC1? One of my mates works in desktop support there.

i dont use them anymore :)
except maybe this one

Person one: ...that car must weigh a tonne!
Me: Ya mum weighs a tonne!!

Work runs 3 clusters of cisco call managers, with 3 unity boxes, 1 ipcc server, 1 mobility manager. Works out to be 10 servers.. then we have 5 sites runnig ccme with 3 running cue as well. I have 3 cisco phones at home running from a 2821 with a gre back to the office. :)... Then at home I run a server with VM versions of CCM, Unity and IPCC for a test bed. Might be alittle extreme but I am doing my ccie in voice soon. :)

hey spock, i heard you were told that they were looking for terrorists in brisbane the other day


and i also heard that you said 'where do i sign up'?

i didnt maybe you got spock confused with somone else

No... I'm not, I'm a lowly service support analyst.

Do you work in RC1? One of my mates works in desktop support there.

Yeah I'm the PABX tech on the 15th floor of RC-1