Any current problems with voip.co.uk

I can't currently make any outgoing calls using voip.co.uk (and, no, I
haven't run out of credit!) but I can receive incoming calls.

Is anyone else having similar problems?

I'm not sure whether the problem is with the voip service or with my PAP2T -
although I suspect the former! Whenever I dial a number, I get a
oink-oink-oink type noise which increases in frequency and harshness after a
few seconds.

I sometimes get this almost as a matter of course when making calls, but
they're usually ok on the 2nd or 3rd attempt - but it's now doing it all the
time.
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Roger Mills wrote:

> I can't currently make any outgoing calls using voip.co.uk (and, no,
> I haven't run out of credit!) but I can receive incoming calls.
>
> Is anyone else having similar problems?
>
> I'm not sure whether the problem is with the voip service or with my
> PAP2T - although I suspect the former! Whenever I dial a number, I
> get a oink-oink-oink type noise which increases in frequency and
> harshness after a few seconds.
>
> I sometimes get this almost as a matter of course when making calls,
> but they're usually ok on the 2nd or 3rd attempt - but it's now doing
> it all the time.

Working fine for calls in and out for me ....

Mick

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Jono wrote:

> With regards to credit, how the bloody hell do you top the account up
> without a credit card - they are unable to take payment by debit card -
> a situation that has persisted for about 3 months.
>
> This inability to accept debit cards caused our monthly UK pack to not
> renew, followed by calls being charged that shouldn't have been.

Is this still an issue? If so, I'm stuffed in November - my £20PA for
off-peak expires then, and I don't have a credit card. Good thing people
use my Sipgate number for incoming!

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Jono wrote:

> With regards to credit, how the bloody hell do you top the account up
> without a credit card - they are unable to take payment by debit card -
> a situation that has persisted for about 3 months.

I've just topped up with a debit card. It went through OK.

"Roger Mills" <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:5lso0vF9ueblU1@mid.individual.net...
>I can't currently make any outgoing calls using voip.co.uk (and, no, I
>haven't run out of credit!) but I can receive incoming calls.
>
> Is anyone else having similar problems?
>
> I'm not sure whether the problem is with the voip service or with my
> PAP2T - although I suspect the former! Whenever I dial a number, I get a
> oink-oink-oink type noise which increases in frequency and harshness after
> a few seconds.
>
> I sometimes get this almost as a matter of course when making calls, but
> they're usually ok on the 2nd or 3rd attempt - but it's now doing it all
> the time.
> --
> Cheers,
> Roger
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> monitored..
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> NEWSGROUP!
>

My Voip.co.uk connection was entirely out of action (also using PAP2) for
several days - but it suddenly began to work again today - crossing fingers.
Last week Sipgate wasn't working but Voip.co.uk was! Got both at the moment.

Paul

Jono wrote:

> alexd presented the following explanation :
>>> This inability to accept debit cards caused our monthly UK pack to not
>>> renew, followed by calls being charged that shouldn't have been.
>>
>> Is this still an issue? If so, I'm stuffed in November
>
> It was perhaps a sweeping statement to say they couldn't take "Debit
> Cards" when, in fact it is specifically Maestro cards they cannot take.

Phew.

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
mymail@hotmail.com <mymail@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:33:19 +0100, "Roger Mills"
> <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't currently make any outgoing calls using voip.co.uk (and, no,
>> I haven't run out of credit!) but I can receive incoming calls.
>>
>> Is anyone else having similar problems?
>
> So that was it, at around 4.45 this afternoon I was outside and tried
> to make an 0800 call but no joy came back inside around 5 pm and all
> was fine I was putting it down to the phone being out of range .

Yes, mine came back after an hour or so.

Strange that I could still receive incoming calls during this 'outage'
period. Anyone care to explain that?
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Roger Mills wrote:

> Strange that I could still receive incoming calls during this 'outage'
> period. Anyone care to explain that?

It's most likely that voip.co.uk use a large system built from many
interconnected components, so a failure of one component won't necessarily
result in total loss of service, just a loss of the service that component
provides. And a 'component' could be anything from a patch cable to a 7ft
rack full of servers.

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