[General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free in VOIP Tech Chat

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:10:12 EDT

ra7 : When I dial 800 numbers it's working fine. But when I dial regular numbers it's connecting. But disconnecting after 20 seconds. Also I am hearing a busy tone on my end when I am on the call for those 20 seconds. Any clue what's going on?

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:33:00 EDT

gatzdon :

said by ra7 :

Are there any other dial plans for DTA-310 to use with callpacket. The one posted in the thread is not working. I can't make any outgoing calls. Can somebody post their dial plan.
Thanks,
ra7

Try using Z.T for your dial plan. If that doesn't work, then try Z.# and hit # after you dial your number.

If either of the above work, the problem is with your dial plan.

If both don't work, the problem is not with your dial plan.

You can double check that what you dialled was sent by looking at the call details for the last call.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:05:03 EDT

ra7 : Are there any other dial plans for DTA-310 to use with callpacket. The one posted in the thread is not working. I can't make any outgoing calls. Can somebody post their dial plan.
Thanks,
ra7

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:25:29 EDT

cgigate :

said by x10guy :

I have a DTA-310 and upgraded to the leadtek AR17I firmware. I input some of the same SIP settings as others posted on this thread. Funny thing is that incoming calls work fine.

My DTA-310 works great with it! Voice is very clear.
Free call, nothing is better than it!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:23:56 EDT

cgigate :

said by x10guy :

I have a DTA-310 and upgraded to the leadtek AR17I firmware. I input some of the same SIP settings as others posted on this thread. Funny thing is that incoming calls work fine.

My DTA-310 works great with it! Voice is very clear.
Free call, no one is better than it!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:14:36 EDT

gatzdon :

said by x10guy :

I have a DTA-310 and upgraded to the leadtek AR17I firmware. I input some of the same SIP settings as others posted on this thread. Funny thing is that incoming calls work fine.

But I cannot make any outgoing calls. I get a dial-tone but when I call any number, all I get is silence. It stays that way until I physically reset the power on the DTA.

My softphone on my PC works fine. I'd just like to get my DTA working because using callpacket on a PC is not very convenient.

Thanks.

Try using Z.T for your dial plan. If that doesn't work, then try Z.# and hit # after you dial your number.

If either of the above work, the problem is with your dial plan.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:22:16 EDT

x10guy : I have a DTA-310 and upgraded to the leadtek AR17I firmware. I input some of the same SIP settings as others posted on this thread. Funny thing is that incoming calls work fine.

But I cannot make any outgoing calls. I get a dial-tone but when I call any number, all I get is silence. It stays that way until I physically reset the power on the DTA.

My softphone on my PC works fine. I'd just like to get my DTA working because using callpacket on a PC is not very convenient.

Thanks.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:05:43 EDT

VOIPnYC :

Can someone post their config for a SPA-2000/SPA-3000? I haven't been able to get it to work with either adaptor. I get a fast busy signal instead of dial tone and incoming calls go to voice mail. Thanks!

I'm having the same problem with dta-310 except for calling the toll free numbers are fine.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:25:28 EDT

mik80 : i will appreciate if i could talk to some one for a few minutes , and i can call you on your telephone,
Just to take help in setting up the spa 3000/ telephone connected to the device to recieve calls ,i can change the gw0 to callpacket account and voip buster to gw1 , in fact i can just make out going calls , a few minutes of your help , and i guess i will be able to set up the spa 3000 ok to recieve the calls , i think the psnt , and the user 1 account has to be set up
thanks
mik

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:01:42 EDT

ebruce : The SPA-3000 can only handle one incoming SIP and one incoming POTS line. You would have to set up CallPacket on line 1 to receive calls, but then you wouldn't be able to get incoming calls for voipbuster.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:43:53 EDT

mik80 : Hello I am using spa 3000
I have connected the spa 3000
I have voice buster working in the line 1 GW0 i can make out going call from voipbuster
I have just set up the callpacket account on GW1
I can make out bound calls by usine #1 from call packet account.

I have the PSTN line connected in the line in jack of the spa 3000
I have regular phone in the phone jack connected from which i can make out going calls .

I need the following to be done :-

1) I cannot recieve calls ( if i try to call my call packet number from another phone )
2) I want to first able to recieve calls that is on the phone which is plugged on the spa 3000 and then if ok and working then be able to send the call ( forward ) to my cell telephone .

Help appreciated

Mik

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:57:18 EDT

wesm : Answered my own question: CallPacket supports RFC2833 DTMF mode (hooray!), and this works fantastic. Call quality has been great for me; I can call DirecTV and use their IVR (via redialing out through my PBX) as well as call 1-800-555-TELL and it understands what I'm saying.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:42:41 EDT

wesm : Has anyone gotten inbound touch tones to work? I can call my Asterisk PBX, but entering numbers has no effect. DTMF mode is currently set to "inband," any luck with the others?
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:59:49 EDT

Cal96 :

said by DracoFelis :

NOTE: The dashboard seems to show free minutes remaining, but doesn't appear to update/show which numbers you called.

I've noticed that the call detail takes a while to update, but eventually it appears (next day?). BTW calling toll-free numbers (800, 888, etc.) count against your 100 free outbound minutes.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:47:22 EDT

DracoFelis :

said by voipuser4 :

Can someone post their config for a SPA-2000/SPA-3000? I haven't been able to get it to work with either adaptor.

I just got my callpacket activated a few minutes ago, and it worked (for outbound) on the first try. However, since I currently have them on a "gateway" field on my SPA-3000, I haven't yet tried inbound. Here's what I did to get things going:

1) Log into the CallPacket dashboard, and then go to: Phone and Feature Management => My IP Phone Config. That will list ALL the settings you need.

NOTE: The above web page asks you about your adapter, so
that it can "push" the needed settings. But personally, I didn't let it push anything, and just used the listed settings on that page to manually configure my SPA-3000!

2) For my "Gateway 4:" field, I entered the value listed for my "SIP Username" @ the value listed for "SIP Proxy" (i.e. "cp000xxxxx@voip.callpacket.com", where xxxxx were actual digits I've "blanked out" from showing in this forum).

3) The value of my "GW4 Auth ID:" is just my "SIP Username" (i.e. "cp000xxxxx" (again with the last 5 digits not shown here, but actually entered into my SPA-3000).

4) "GW4 NAT Mapping Enable: yes"

5) And finally "GW4 Password:" got the value of the "Sip Password" shown on that web page.

6) For a dial plan to allow CallPacket outgoing calls, I just used:

<#2:>[x*]. <:@GW4>

NOTE: I picked "#2" as my CallPacket dialing prefix, because 2 is the "C" key.

7) Saved the above settings.

8) Rebooted the adapter (as Sipura adapters sometimes don't actually have new settings "take" until after an adapter reboot).

9) Tested it by dialing a number as follows:
"#2 11-digit-number #". Sure enough, I reached "11-digit-number" on the first try. Logged into my CallPacket dashboard, and I now only have 99 free minutes remaining.

NOTE: The dashboard seems to show free minutes remaining, but doesn't appear to update/show which numbers you called.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:17:57 EDT

gatzdon : voxilla allows you to use their wizards to configure your device on your terms. Could someone confirm (as I have only used it once) that there would be no ill effects if someone were to use voxilla's wizards to configure their device for FWD over Proxy. Once that is working acceptably, I would make the changes identified so many times in this thread and change nothing else.

This is not a guarantee that it will get you working on callpacket, but it has worked for me to resolve unknown configuration issues because I didn't understand some of the settings, therfore didn't know how to adjust them or if adjustment is even needed.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:26:02 EDT

voipuser4 : Can someone post their config for a SPA-2000/SPA-3000? I haven't been able to get it to work with either adaptor. I get a fast busy signal instead of dial tone and incoming calls go to voice mail. Thanks!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:27:55 EDT

JTS33 :

said by gbh2o :

I was pulling my hair out trying to get a DTA-310 working with CallPacket. Finally found that I could not use the FQDN voip.callpacket.com, but had to either use the corresponding IP address 67.43.159.38 _OR_ the reverse response I got of ser.callpacket.com instead!

It was just an issue with CallPacket's DNS earlier today (affected everyone using voip.callpacket.com). Things are back to normal now.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 09:27:54 EDT

gbh2o : I was pulling my hair out trying to get a DTA-310 working with CallPacket. Finally found that I could not use the FQDN voip.callpacket.com, but had to either use the corresponding IP address 67.43.159.38 _OR_ the reverse response I got of ser.callpacket.com instead!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:46:22 EDT

Pinan : From the free Packet FAQ:

"How long can I keep this Free Packet Service Plan?

You can use this as long as you want. We will not charge you unless you upgrade to any of our Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum plan. With these plans, you can take advantage of more features."

I have it. It's great.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:33:23 EDT

jweek : has anyone heard how long it will remain "free"?

I asked their online support guy "Mike":

info: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
info: You are now chatting with 'Mike'
Mike: Hello, Welcome to Live Chat Support.
Mike: How may I help you today ?
Mike: Hello J
J: Hi Mike ..I haven't received my email for account activation - how much longer until my account is active?
Mike: J may I know when did you sign up?
J: it was about 2 hours ago
Mike: Ok..
Mike: May I have your email address please
John: aaa@bbb.com
Mike: Ok..
Mike: J we have just active your account
Mike: You will receive the welcome letter in short while
J: thanks much! how long does the Free Packet package remain free?
Mike: Sorry but we can not give the exact date.
Mike: :-

:uhh:

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:29:49 EDT

NY Tel : Which is why I gave them ALL bogus information and never my credit card. While chances are they are legit, what better way to Phish people's credit cards....start a business - give stuff away, steal the personal info, buy lots of color tv's with the stolen cards and then shut down.

Spoken like a true New Yorker. I'm probably wrong but.....
The early bird catches the worm.:p
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:56:12 EDT

bugszell : Thier support team is a joke.
Nobody speaks english and nobody knows how the verification process works.
I have tried the phone, email and chat suppport and they have no clue to what's going on.
Email = No response
Chat = will not respond after you describe the problem, and they have the nerve to ask you if you are there if you don't respond in 1 minute
Phone = Can understand/speak engligh

Goodluck surviving in the VoIP market!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:46:34 EDT

gatzdon :

said by deheza :

DTA-310 Dial Plan is: 1xxxxxxxxxx|x.T|*x.T|**

You are the man. I would have never thought of putting the SIP username in the phone number field.

The service works just fine on the DTA-310 with AR160 firmware.

To make a note, I previously had problems using my DTA-310's with FWD until I used the voxilla tool to configure them for FWD. The setting appeared identical before and after so I don't know if other "hidden" settings changed for the voxilla tool, but all I know is it worked afterwards. If someone can't get their DTA to work, it may not hurt to go to voxilla's website and use their configuration wizard tool to setup your Leadtek device for FWD (via proxy) and verify that it works with FWD. When that works, just change the fields above and hopefully it will work with callpacket.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 04:18:27 EDT

BLL :

said by Guy Waters :

Callpacket now has a verification process in place, but it doesn't work.

I received the following email:

Thank-you for choosing Callpacket.com and our FreePacket Phone Calling Plan. In order to complete your registration, our automated system needs to verify your account information. Your email account has been verified, the last step requires the verification of your phone number.

Click HERE to begin the automated phone verification process.
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After clicking HERE, my phone doesn't ring and I receive an error email.I guess you get what you pay for. FREE = nothing.

It worked fine for me. A few seconds after clicking the button, my phone rang (I gave them my Stanaphone number and used a softphone from work) and a recorded voice gave me my verification number. I punched it into the provided box, and my account was provisioned and authorized.

I signed up for a 310 number, and got one. It works fine, with both a Sipura SPA-2000 and the SJPhone softphone. I've already made a few long distance calls.

FWIW, I signed up for, and verified the account with Opera, not Internet Explorer.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:43:52 EDT

deheza : DTA-310 Dial Plan is: 1xxxxxxxxxx|x.T|*x.T|**

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:45:27 EDT

bellhater : As per my new post.. Didn't know this was the same..here is the link..

»[Other] callpacket BS

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:53:11 EDT

NY Tel : i just dialed it from New York City and got through.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:34:53 EDT

Guy Waters : Callpacket now has a verification process in place, but it doesn't work.

I received the following email:

Thank-you for choosing Callpacket.com and our FreePacket Phone Calling Plan. In order to complete your registration, our automated system needs to verify your account information. Your email account has been verified, the last step requires the verification of your phone number.

Click HERE to begin the automated phone verification process.

We thank you for your attention and we are prepared to launch your communication experience to the next level with the Callpacket network!

CallPacket Support Team
A division of TelePacket, Inc.
Toll Free: 1-888-711-6081
Fax: 1-909-494-4425
Email: support@callpacket.com or sales@callpacket.com
24-7-365 Servicing Around The World.

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After clicking HERE, my phone doesn't ring and I receive an error email.

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Thank-you for choosing Callpacket.com and our FreePacket Phone Calling Plan.

Unfortunately we were unable to contact you the telephone number you provided during signup. Please click the link HERE to re-initiate the call when you have access to your phone at number XXXXXXXXXX.
We thank you for your attention and we are prepared to launch your communication experience to the next level with the Callpacket network!

CallPacket Support Team
A division of TelePacket, Inc.
Toll Free: 1-888-711-6081
Fax: 1-909-494-4425
Email: support@callpacket.com or sales@callpacket.com
24-7-365 Servicing Around The World.

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Their number 1-888-711-6081 plays very loud music for 30 seconds then gives a busy signal.

I guess you get what you pay for. FREE = nothing.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:18:15 EDT

anon : Deheza, thanks for the tip! Do you mind posting your Dial Plan?

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:13:12 EDT

deheza : DTA-310 17I firmware. Be careful about installing it. It works well, but I'm not sure if it can ever be replaced. I haven't gone there as I'm happy with the way it works and don't want to take a chance on bricking it.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:12:52 EDT

gatzdon :

said by deheza :

It runs ok on my DTA-310 with LeadTek 17I firmware. The solution was to put the username in the phone number slot as well as the username one.

OK, you got my attention on two fronts.

One, I'll have to try my DTA310 again with the username for the phone number.

two, I turned a DTA-310 into a brick loading AR170 firmware on it. I totally missed the thread about 17I firmware and thank you for indirectly bringing it to my attention.
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Re: .

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:49:12 EDT

Ludwik :

said by david_gruenb :

I can't log on to their site using Firefox, only IE.

Strange. I am using FF 1.0.7 and don't have this problem.
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Re: .Firefox

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:01:55 EDT

david_gruenb : voipfima, I am talking about management of my account. I can sign in with IE, but not Firefox. Fortunalty, I got the IE Tab extension, so its no big deal to me, but its smoething they outhgt to fix if they want us to refer customers to them.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:33:51 EDT

NY Tel :

said by rsa0 :

Dude, it is a free service !!! It works just fine (for me at least)...what are you complaining about? free is free !! don't like the way it works, move on ...

This will be a short term "free" offering. What better way to get exposure and publicity than letting us talk about it and use it and "hopefully" upgrade to the paid version.
If their paid quality is an example of what their base product sounds like, I'll wait till they perfect their web site, codecs and other things. But for now, free is free as the man said.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:19:07 EDT

rsa0 : Dude, it is a free service !!! It works just fine (for me at least)...what are you complaining about? free is free !! don't like the way it works, move on ...

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:11:29 EDT

digiblur : I set it up on SPA841 and it works ok. I noticed a bit of packet loss and it wasn't on my ISP's side. The other party said I was crystal clear but sometimes their voice sounded like a static sound mixed with their voice.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:28:19 EDT

deheza : It runs ok on my DTA-310 with LeadTek 17I firmware. The solution was to put the username in the phone number slot as well as the username one.
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Re: .

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:53:20 EDT

voipfima : I was talking about signup link. It doesn't work in both IE and firefox.

Re: .

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:50:59 EDT

david_gruenb : I can't log on to their site using Firefox, only IE.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:12:43 EDT

deheza : I am using a DTA-310. The solution is to put your assigned username in the telephone number field as well.
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Re: .

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:13:17 EDT

voipfima : Their 888 line down or busy.
My softphone connects to a different phone number. (not specified in my account) - I also got a few voicemail messages in chineese - so someone is trying to use that account as well.
Their signup link does not work - I wanted to try to signup for another account...

Re: RT412

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:11:57 EDT

pannyhd : Anyone know how to configure a Linksys RT412 to use this service?

Zax

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Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:54:45 EDT

JTS33 : I think CallPacket has handled the onrush of new customers quite well. I figured their service would have an outage with all the new customers testing their new lines, but I haven't noticed any so far.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:09:48 EDT

anon : I registered and had my DID the next AM by going through their chat support web app. I am curious to find out if anyone has successfully registered a Leadtek BVA8051. I keep failing.

TIA!,

SoCurious

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:16:16 EDT

NY Tel : I registered today and asked for a 310 area code so my friends think I moved to Beverly Hills....lol
It registered me immediately and incoming and outgoing were working immediately.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:44:16 EDT

sokhapkin : Looks like they have a heavy new customers volume. I signed up with callpacket in september and it took only 15 minutes to set up the service.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:32:14 EDT

mettmann : it took 14 hours to configure my line..

Re: [General] Do they have Caller ID with Name?

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:30:59 EDT

mettmann : I'm getting "Out of Area" with the number I configured - when dialing out to a land line - but yeah - free is free and no probs so far!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 12:15:21 EDT

KLH : Hmm.. I submitted a ticket yesterday, asking about why I had no phone number. Today when I log in, there is no more ticket. They deleted it!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:58:00 EDT

The Beer : The FW and SD effect is 10,000+ people from the bargain hunting forum flooding them with new orders.

www.fatwallet.com and www.slickdeals.net

Webistes have gone down, companies have been left in ruins because of it.

Think abut $10 TV's the day after thanksgiving, now put it on the internet and shove 10,000 people into a walmart.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:26:37 EDT

fegul :

said by T40_Laptop :

The next best thing could be getting money for using their VoIP! LoL :)

By the way, did you guys realize whats been happening?

10 years ago, we got internet service via telephone line.. now we are getting telephone service via internet!!!!!

T40

Don't forget we'll be getting TV through the internet as well!!
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[General] Do they have Caller ID with Name?

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:09:28 EDT

tj008 : Has anyone seen Caller ID come up with the name yet on incoming calls? Their website clearly states that name and number show up, I have not had name appear yet and all incoming calls have been from POTS lines.

Great service otherwise.

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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:39:06 EDT

andyor : When it says that no numbers are available, just ignore it. Select your desired area code from the list, and see if the next dropdown list has a prefix for that area code listed. If not, then try another area code. If there is a prefix, select it and continue. That's what I did last night and it worked for me. (I picked a 763 - Minnesota #). Even though it took A LOT longer than 30 minutes, and I never got an email notification with my assigned number. But I logged in this afternoon (about 17 hours after sign-up) and there was my number listed. I downloaded the Softphone and tried it - works fine inbound and outbound.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:35:45 EDT

craigg : Greyhound,

FW = fatwallet.com, a very popular deal forum. SD = slickdeals.net, another deal forum.

Several Callpacket employees have been logging onto the fatwallet forum due to the huge volume of orders that my post there generated. One employee indicated that they received 3000 new sign ups yesterday. I am not sure about that number but the post has generated over 11,000 hits on FW alone. Now that it has been cross posted onto this forum as well as slickdeals I would not deny those numbers.

I understand you expect a perfect service but be patient. If you signed up for the free account you have nothing to lose. I have a free account and it works and I can probably point you to at least another 100+ happy customers. Be patient and I'm sure you will get your account :)

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:24:40 EDT

craigg : G729

said by ejrobinson :

What codec is used by callpacket.com, or is there a choice possible?

I note some of the int'l rates are very low, too low to be sustainable, e.g. 1 cent for italy and spain, 2 cents for mexico.

-er

Re: Anyone get a DTA 310 working

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:23:20 EDT

lanb : I had the same question and an employee from callpacket replied
in FW that they do not support DTA-310 anymore.

I am guessing it is because of p8 newer locked firmware.
But I am sure the voip hackers (in a good sense) here would
be able to make it work :) if we went back to the old firmware.

Who is going to be the first ;)

Anyone get a DTA 310 working

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:42:40 EDT

Joe Newbie : It looks like from their FAQ (page 3, question 6) that they send out DTA 310's or did at some point, or copy and pasted packet 8's faq or something.

So has anyone managed to get a DTA310 with any firmware working on this?

Thanks?
Joe

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:37:46 EDT

greyhound433 : Dear Gatzdon,

You don't know me, so don't go trolling for a flame war.

I don't know what

Wow, a company gets hammered by the FW effect (wait until it hits SD)

means. Please speak plainly if you intend to add value to the conversation.

I am merely trying to let everyone know that dealing with this company RIGHT NOW is immensely frustrating.

THEY (not me) advertise the free promotion.
THEY sent ME an e-mail setting my expectations to hear from them in 30 minutes.
THEY post in flashing letters on their web site "Speak to a rep live right now!".
THEY staff their support team with people who barely speak the language.
THEY built a web site that leads you to select products which are, apparently, unavailable.
THEY built a system that collects your genuine info (name, address, phone #, e-mail), then when the system fouls up an order (accepting an order for an unavailable phone #), has no way to resolve the problem but to have you re-enter a new (unique!) order with some other genuine information.

So, yes, I'm pissed, because as a GENUINE prospective customer of theirs, I took them up on their promotion as a means to evaluate their service, and they caused me nothing but delay and frustration over what should have been a simple transaction.

Maybe they are getting "hammered by the FW effect", whatever that means. I suppose I should have googled on "callpacket" and "FW effect" before trying to place the order. My bad.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:56:00 EDT

KLH : I did finally get into my account (I was using the wrong password to try to log in). It doesn't show a phone number, so I submitted a ticket asking about it. I choose one from the midwest, that may be the reason why.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:38:34 EDT

david_gruenb : I'm up and running in about 24 hours. I asked for 323 (Los Angeles), but I got 415 (San Francisco). Not to hard to set up the PAP2.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:29:17 EDT

gatzdon :

said by greyhound433 :

This company is a total joke.

I signed up this morning, got an instant e-mail back telling me my account would be activated. 3 hours later, nothing. I used their instant chat to talk to "Raymod".

With MUCH delay in his response (and poor spelling or poor typing to further annoy me), he eventually revealed that "these codes aren't available". Five more agonizing minutes of "instant chat with tech support" revealed that even though the site LET me choose a certain area code for my phone #, this area code is not available.

Could Raymond help me? You guessed it: of course not. I had to "sign up with different account". He eventually allowed me to deduce that this meant I had to use a different e-mail account to sign up again.

Back to signing up again. Guess what? Now, no matter WHAT area code I select, it tells me it's not available.

What a joke. Or a scam. I don't know which.

Wow, a company gets hammered by the FW effect (wait until it hits SD) and you get pissed because they couldn't give you a free VOIP account immediately. Let me ask you, how much did they charge you so far. I bet you are the same person who gets pissed because you show up at Office Max on Saturday to find out they ran out of all the Free after Rebate stuff.

By all accounts, this company has offered a great promotion and is doing a pretty good job honoring it. At FW, the post has gotten over 10,000 hits (all within the last 24 hours) and the employees are answering all questions. I imagine their servers are getting hit with all those people setting up and testing their equipment simultaneously.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:47:46 EDT

greyhound433 : This company is a total joke.

I signed up this morning, got an instant e-mail back telling me my account would be activated. 3 hours later, nothing. I used their instant chat to talk to "Raymod".

With MUCH delay in his response (and poor spelling or poor typing to further annoy me), he eventually revealed that "these codes aren't available". Five more agonizing minutes of "instant chat with tech support" revealed that even though the site LET me choose a certain area code for my phone #, this area code is not available.

Could Raymond help me? You guessed it: of course not. I had to "sign up with different account". He eventually allowed me to deduce that this meant I had to use a different e-mail account to sign up again.

Back to signing up again. Guess what? Now, no matter WHAT area code I select, it tells me it's not available.

What a joke. Or a scam. I don't know which.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:28:44 EDT

gatzdon :

said by Test99 :

Anyone know what happens with the free service when you use up all your 100 outgoing minutes: is the service cut off or is there an option to pay by the minute?

I use Teliax for outgoing calls. But with CallPacket's call forwarding enabled to a cell phone, outgoing minutes could start to add up.

In FW, a callpacket employee reported that when you use up your 100 minutes, you can't make any calls until the next month (in other words, you can't just pay x¢/min to keep making calls), I imagine this is an incentive to get you to upgrade to a pay plan.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:50:19 EDT

Test99 : Anyone know what happens with the free service when you use up all your 100 outgoing minutes: is the service cut off or is there an option to pay by the minute?

I use Teliax for outgoing calls. But with CallPacket's call forwarding enabled to a cell phone, outgoing minutes could start to add up.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:29:24 EDT

Test99 : I did not receive an email from CallPacket with the assigned phone number in it. But about an hour after signing up I logged in to my account page. The number was there already.

I have made and received about two hours of calls with a soft phone (not CallPacket's) in the last week. No problems with the service at all so far.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:23:24 EDT

penguins4evr : I registered with CallPacket, received two confirmation emails and my number, but no live call as of yet. I imagine they are swamped especially with FatWallet.com involved.

I've downloaded the CallPacket software but haven't tried makng a call yet.

Speaking of FatWallet, someone over at the FatWallet forum by the username of "heiNey" appears to be representing CallPacket and answering questions.

Direct link - »www.fatwallet.com/forums/message···d=533151
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:08:37 EDT

KLH : I just talked to someone on their live chat, he said

quote:
We are in the process of alloting the account
You will receive the welcome letter in next 1 or 2 hours

And that is all he said. I guess I will wait and see.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:41:38 EDT

gatzdon : Try registering, it gives an error that you did not type in the correct confirmation code, but there is no where to type one in nor is one displayed.

That's why there are no users yet.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:25:17 EDT

david_gruenb : Last night all the area codes I wanted were gone. Now, in the morning, they are there. I sent an email to customer service and got back a note that they are processing, but you can login with the email and password you gave them to look at the site.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:20:42 EDT

bjl : 818 is Los Angeles.

They never called to confirm I'm a real person...

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:02:37 EDT

artisticcheese : Just got my number in 818 area code (have no idea where is that). It took 12 hours for them to process order. Also they probably called my signature number from SR to verify that I'm real person. And that's what probably takes most of their time.
I'm still kind of confused about the company though. Their support forum do not have any messages at all. It usually means.

1. Forum is not working
2. There are no customers
3. Forum has been just launched
4. There are no issues with service and hence no postings

I'm trying to make softphone work via HTTP proxy and it does not allow me so I created helpdesk ticket with them. Will check how good are they in handling tech support issues (hope nothing like SR).
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:53:46 EDT

david_gruenb : My line 1 is a 100 minute plan from Broadvoice with a local area code for $5 a month. My intention is to use callpacket free minutes on line 2 when I run out of Broadvoice time. I have a single line phone. Can I still receive incoming calls from line 1 if I am making outgoing calls on line 2 without constantly switching the cord to the jack?

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:39:29 EDT

KLH : I'm still waiting on mine...

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:41:59 EDT

bjl :

said by glomph :

fife: Use their 'live online support person' link, there actually is a helpful person [or a REALLY INTELLIGENT robot] there! I bugged him/her, and got my number straightaway!

I wasn't in a rush to get it, and it came while I slept. :)

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:43:57 EDT

ejrobinson : What codec is used by callpacket.com, or is there a choice possible?

I note some of the int'l rates are very low, too low to be sustainable, e.g. 1 cent for italy and spain, 2 cents for mexico.

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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:09:35 EDT

Ludwik :

said by MushyBubbler :

Anyone else having trouble selecting a phone number...I keep getting in red "Unfortunately we do not service this area" when its an Oregon area code..im confused!

The same thing here when not choosing any codes :(
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:02:53 EDT

ronmark : MussyBubbler -
Was told, pretend it's not there and proceed. Worked for me with a socal # a week ago.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:40:50 EDT

MushyBubbler : Anyone else having trouble selecting a phone number...I keep getting in red "Unfortunately we do not service this area" when its an Oregon area code..im confused!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:18:21 EDT

Tzale : Cool!

But for international calling Voipbuster is much better. For 1 Euro ($1.30 I believe) you get unlimited calling to most of Europe.... You try the service out with unlimited 1 minute calls to most of Europe for free, but you don't get a phone number for people to call you!

Though this is cool that all these free phone deals are popping up again! Just like the good old days!

-Tzale
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:06:32 EDT

KLH : I'm still waiting to recieve my number as well. I haven't received anything from them yet..

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:26:41 EDT

glomph : fife: Use their 'live online support person' link, there actually is a helpful person [or a REALLY INTELLIGENT robot] there! I bugged him/her, and got my number straightaway!

But I've noticed in the past few days the most popular area codes are GONE. We're talking podunk (mostly Red-State Redneck Hell) in the DID inventory now. Usual economics of giving stuff away!

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:16:41 EDT

bjl : i registered for a 510-493 number, but haven't received the number yet. it looks like their 30 minute activation is taking a bit longer. I registered around 2:30pm (PDT).

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:54:41 EDT

buckeyered : I asked the online support about locking the pap2 and they said they do not lock the device.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:49:40 EDT

netlover : Use 67.43.159.38 instead of voip.callpacket.com for better service.
I had this free service since early September using my sipura 1001. It worked perfect.
I didn't use outbound proxy, and the preferred codec is G729a. And you don't need provide MAC address and just use the general configration, it worked for me.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:44:57 EDT

anon : I tried to register using 415 area code and was not allowed. The screen showed I could only have this area code with a monthly plan.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:14:00 EDT

jjoshua : The free DIDs are not just west coast. It looks like there are area codes from all over the US.

Free is free. You can't beat that price.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:10:26 EDT

REM : Any luck setting up this service with asterisk?
I got outbound working but no inbound so far.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:30:53 EDT

artisticcheese : Look at their forum »www.callpacket.com/forums/
Did they establish service only a couple of days ago or something?
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:04:12 EDT

gatzdon : When I log in, they supply the SIP credentials where you could also choose to have them push the configuration. I personally have no intention of using that feature.

My credentials don't work on my DTA-310 (w/ AR160), but many people are reporting success with the PAP2 over in FW. I plan on setting up my PAP2 when I get home. People in FW are reporting success without having to make any changes to their configuration, just plugging in proxy, user, and password.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:01:18 EDT

craigg : You can configure your device manually. If you're using a linksys adapter:
Line1:
Proxy: voip.callpacket.com
Using Outbound Proxy: yes
Outbound Proxy: voip.callpacket.com
Display Name: xxx
User ID: cpxxxxx
Password: xxxxx

Regional:
Remove Call Back Deact Code: *86, this way you could use *86 to check your VM

if you behind NAT, just enable the NAT setting.

I am not at home now but I believe I configured my sipura the same way. Good luck :)

said by DracoFelis :

said by gatzdon :

www.callpacket.com

No credit card required for the free plan which includes 100 minutes per month and a west coast DID. They list the PAP2 as officially supported for BYOD.

I was thinking this sounded like a good deal UNTIL I saw on their FAQ that they wanted my MAC address (and for me to point my ATA to their tftp server), so that they could "push" settings to my adapter. Ouch!

Do you happen to know if you actually get the SIP credentials from this company (so that you can manually setup your ATA), or is this really BYOD support only for those that let this company remotely control their adapters?

I personally think it is a VERY BAD IDEA to let any BYOD company remotely configure my adapter! Not only are they likely to muck up my other adapter settings, but any company with "remote control" of your adapter can actually LOCK YOUR OWN ADAPTER. Now a reputable company might not lock down a BYOD adapter (when they remotely configure it for you), but what's to stop them if/when you give them remote control?!?

And this company does seem to want the remote control of BYOD adapters. Do they give you the SIP credentials so you can do your own config, or is this really BYOD only allowed if/when you give them totally remote control (including the ability to remotely "lock your adapter" if/when they choose to) of your own SIP adapter?

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/mo

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:33:34 EDT

DracoFelis :

said by gatzdon :

www.callpacket.com

No credit card required for the free plan which includes 100 minutes per month and a west coast DID. They list the PAP2 as officially supported for BYOD.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:09:36 EDT

JTS33 :

said by gatzdon :

said by JTS33 :

said by gatzdon :

Can't decide if it's better than VOIPbuster or not. I'll let everyone decide for themself.

The two can only be compared if all you do is make 100 minutes (or less) of outgoing US calls a month. Otherwise, they're pretty different services.

I speak in the sense that I would hardly use a second line in almost any scenario, but this one gives you a US based DID. I agree with you, it's like comparing apples and oranges, but they are both fruit and one is cheaper than the other depending on where you are and what time of year it is.

I guess it would have been better to say that there is not much of a comparison, but they are both free (sort of).

Well said. CP and VB is actually the combination I'm using now on my 2-line Linksys PAP2.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:06:27 EDT

gatzdon :

said by JTS33 :

said by gatzdon :

Can't decide if it's better than VOIPbuster or not. I'll let everyone decide for themself.

The two can only be compared if all you do is make 100 minutes (or less) of outgoing US calls a month. Otherwise, they're pretty different services.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:39:40 EDT

JTS33 :

said by gatzdon :

Can't decide if it's better than VOIPbuster or not. I'll let everyone decide for themself.

The two can only be compared if all you do is make 100 minutes (or less) of outgoing US calls a month. Otherwise, they're pretty different services.

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:18:09 EDT

T40_Laptop : The next best thing could be getting money for using their VoIP! LoL :)

By the way, did you guys realize whats been happening?

10 years ago, we got internet service via telephone line.. now we are getting telephone service via internet!!!!!

T40

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:16:41 EDT

gatzdon :

said by craigg :

Gatzdon,

I had thought about posting Callpacket on this forum too as there was little mention of it so far. I started the thread over on FW and I thought it would be better to let this little company catch up for a while from the FW effect. I don't post very much in this forum as it seems to have succumbed to little more than a place to complain about service issues. I do hope callpacket makes it as they have a nice little package and one can't beat the price;)

After seeing how the company has responded, I kind of wish they would at least verify the name and address of those signing up. It would at least help the company survive the effect without discontinuing the deal altogether.

I know there can be some complainers here, but you've got to admit that FW has its fair share of lurkers that will sign up for 20 accounts and rotate their username/password every couple days. There are still some decent people who post here, but I guess we all have to sort through the garbage to read the good stuff.

Thanks for bringing the deal to my attention as I think it's worth checking out.
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Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:05:31 EDT

artisticcheese : Wow, that is great. How they are going to survive with this kind of deals?

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:01:28 EDT

craigg : Gatzdon,

I had thought about posting Callpacket on this forum too as there was little mention of it so far. I started the thread over on FW and I thought it would be better to let this little company catch up for a while from the FW effect. I don't post very much in this forum as it seems to have succumbed to little more than a place to complain about service issues. I do hope callpacket makes it as they have a nice little package and one can't beat the price;)

Re: [General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:53:11 EDT

PJIV : Just what I was looking for! Thanks!

[General] Free VOIP West Coast DID, 100 min/month free

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:47:55 EDT

gatzdon : FW is killing this company right now, but the deal is legit and I figured the folks here probably deserve it more (I know that is a stereotype).

www.callpacket.com

No credit card required for the free plan which includes 100 minutes per month and a west coast DID. They list the PAP2 as officially supported for BYOD.

Can't decide if it's better than VOIPbuster or not. I'll let everyone decide for themself.

I did a search here and I only found miniscule references to callpacket.
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