BT Broadband Talk

#1 (**permalink**) 11-20-2007, 10:28 AM

Is this offering actually a SIP connection or something BT dreamed up?

If it *is* real SIP, then how does one call the number free from a non
home hub SIP phone?

TIA
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Dave Saville

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#2 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 07:20 PM

On 20/11/2007 11:28, Dave Saville wrote:

> how does one call the number free from a non home hub SIP phone?

You don't, it's a walled garden.

#3 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007, 11:21 AM

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:20:23 +0000, Andy Burns
<usenet.july2007@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:

>On 20/11/2007 11:28, Dave Saville wrote:
>
>> how does one call the number free from a non home hub SIP phone?
>
>You don't, it's a walled garden.

Wrong.

You do however need to know the public IP address of the homehub, but
then it is not difficult to setup dyndns / noip etc. to match a static
hostname with the dynamic IP.

You then can call up sip:4456xxxxxxxx@aa.bb.cc.dd where 4456xxxxxxxx
is the international format of your BT BBT number and aa.bb.cc.dd is
the IP of the homehub.

This works great for me.

D