"Jono" <nothanks@blueyonder.invalid> wrote in message
news:mn.f4977d71cd4237c2.48968@blueyonder.invalid. ..
> Port Admiral Haynes has brought this to us :
>> Bear with me because I am new at this!
>>
>> Since Skype slapped on their connection charger I have been slowly easing
>> away from them.
>> I have a Linksys Sipura ATA that should be arriving tomorrow and have
>> just signed up with Voip Discount. (No money put in as yet)
>>
>> Looking around my VoipDiscount control panel I can find no mention of a
>> number people can dial in to contact me. Is it that I use VoipDiscount
>> for outgoing calls only and people use my normal BT number to ring in or
>> am I missing something!
>>
>> Sorry if I am being thick!
>
> A few choices spring to mind -
>
> Which SPA have you bought? If it's the SAP1001, that's capable of having
> two SIP accounts with one phone connected. Simply sign up to Sipgate &
> obtain a free geo number and set that up as your second account.
>
> If you have bought an SPA2101, similar to the SPA1001, except this is two
> lines with TWO phones, so not as ideal.
>
> If you've bought an SPA3102, then this would allow incomming calls on your
> PSTN line to be answered on your voip line....and you would simply dial
> out on either.
>
> You could research the service that Brain A knows a lot about......what
> the hell's it called..."VOX something or other"? You can register your
> VoipDiscount account & your Sipgate account on their servers & your ATA
> uses "VOX Something or other" as it's service provider. That way you can
> have any number of incomming/outgoing providers on a single ATA.
>
>
Thanks - It is the SPA101 - I will go and take a look at Sipgate