stufried
Premium
join:2003-10-13
 ·Verizon BroadbandA..
| reply to balaton
Re: [FWD] Free world dialup
No one likes losing money, but I don't think FWD was a scam. It was just a poorly run operation in the end.
DId you ever have a restaurant that you really liked that you knew was failing, but you went for one last meal? Whether it is to say goodbye to the staff, to preserve a memory, or as one last act of loyalty to small crew of people you knew and liked? That was where I was at the last year of FWD.
FWD got me into VOIP. My best friend lived in London and I lived in the US and we used to yack all the time. At the time, the best rate I could get to the UK was like $0.10 a minute and BT's rate for calling the US was even worse. For the price of two ATAs, two US phones (plus one 230v universal power supply), we could talk till we were blue in the face. We actually felt like it was illegal or something. A year or two later, I got my second ATA from Vonage and ultimately figured out a way to bridge calls between the two units.
I'm now running an Asterisk box and converted my office over to VOIP. I owe Jeff Pulver for that, enjoyed FWD, and wrote the $30 off to one last "meal" at an old memory. If the $30 bucks had given them the chance to pull their operation out of the grave, that would have been a very pleasant surprise. |
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Toollio
join:2003-11-17
Brazil/Cda
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said by kieranmullen  :I have 3 did's through them for a few years now. They are reliable on a paid basis. Really? I used FWD for years, and have a a handful of numbers. I paid the $30 fee a few months back. In the past month all of my numbers have stopped registering, as have those of most people in this thread. I wonder why yours continue to work? |
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kieranmullen
Premium
join:2005-12-12
Portland, OR
clubs: | I do not know about most. I have an Oregon number and I am located in Oregon. I just performed a test call from Betamax to Gizmo via DID and it worked fine.
I have my GizmoDID in asterisk. |
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burgerwars
join:2004-09-11
Northridge, CA
 ·voip.ms
 ·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Toollio
said by Toollio :said by kieranmullen :I have 3 did's through them for a few years now. They are reliable on a paid basis. Really? I used FWD for years, and have a a handful of numbers. I paid the $30 fee a few months back. In the past month all of my numbers have stopped registering, as have those of most people in this thread. I wonder why yours continue to work? Do the following change:
Please update the SIP domain for connecting to FWD from fwd.pulver.com to sip.fwdi.net before March 31, 2009. NAT traversal gets addressed automatically, so there is no longer a need for fwdnat2.pulver.com or stun.fwdnet.net.
Once done you should be connected again, but the service is worthless. No voicemail, none of those numbers to access other VOIP services, toll free, etc. You're just able to dial other FWD users who's adapters are on and are by their phone to answer. You'll probably just get a lot of busy signals when dialing calls that are going nowhere. Incoming SIP does still work (change your domain also for services like IPKALL), but I've stopped using the service. |
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PX Eliezer
Premium
join:2008-08-09
New Jersey
·Callcentric
·Optimum Voice
·callwithus
·voip.ms
1 edit | said by burgerwars :Once done you should be connected again, but the service is worthless.... There's a great "Far Side" comic by Gary Larson in which a ship carrying a cargo of mannequins sinks.
As the sharks converge and try to eat the mannequins, one shark says to another, "What is this, some kind of cruel joke?"
(In reference to FWD.....) |
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Toollio
join:2003-11-17
Brazil/Cda
| reply to burgerwars
Burgerwars,
Thanks for the tip. I am registered again. It actually might have some usefulness for me still, since I was one of those who frequently called other FWD members with ATAs registered with FWD. I also used it to call my old Sipura 3000 from out of the country so I could link into the POTS network, which I would like to to again.
However, I could also do the same with a free account with Callcentric or a number of other SIP providers. |
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Billteloparnet
@comcast.net
| reply to balaton
Well, some VOIP SIP accounts are still free. Try »calltheworld.us/component/chrono···l_signup for a free SIP account and a free PSTN call. The SIP account is yours to keep. |
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