 HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:12 | Dell Voice Has anyone tried this?
»www.dellvoice.ca/
Free calling to a lot of cities in Canada, and you get a local phone number as well.
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| said by HiVolt:Has anyone tried this?
»www.dellvoice.ca/
Free calling to a lot of cities in Canada, and you get a local phone number as well.
Looked at it, might try it at some point but they use a pretty inefficient codec for the transmission of the voice data at 1MB/m.
Unless you are on wifi or have a generous data plan on your smartphone, that app could lead to some nasty bill shock.
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HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:12 | That is pretty inefficient.. Where did you find that, perhaps there are settings you can change?
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ns1225
join:2010-12-30
Montreal, QC Reviews:
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I've been using 3CX on the iPhone with service from VoIP.ms for my wifi-calling. If this is equal in quality I might have to move over. I hope these guys allow you to set your own caller ID and not a random number like Skype does.
Edit: You can't set your own caller ID but have to use the local number they have provided you, which isn't bad since you can call and receive calls unlike Skype. And it appears to be just under 90Kb/s of bandwidth being used during the call each way as per the graphs in dd-wrt. |
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said by HiVolt:That is pretty inefficient.. Where did you find that, perhaps there are settings you can change?
Right in the app store description with the paragraph that starts:
"How Much data does Dell Voice Use?"
Read that and I was like "Holy frack, talk about your bandwidth hog" (Not to mention the likelihood of it being crap on toast while going over the cell networks...)
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said by ns1225:I've been using 3CX on the iPhone with service from VoIP.ms for my wifi-calling. If this is equal in quality I might have to move over. I hope these guys allow you to set your own caller ID and not a random number like Skype does.
Edit: You can't set your own caller ID but have to use the local number they have provided you, which isn't bad since you can call and receive calls unlike Skype. And it appears to be just under 90Kb/s of bandwidth being used during the call each way as per the graphs in dd-wrt.
But even if it's 90Kb/s each way, that means the majority of wi fi home users wouldn't be able to use this program properly, seeing at how the best I get from my DSL connection is approx 85Kb/s or so upstream (Maybe time to bite the bullet and got 25/7)
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | reply to HiVolt
1MB per minute is 137 kilobits per second, which is impossible unless it's wideband audio... G.711, which is uncompressed (and what the phone network itself uses) is only 64kbit, or ~86kbit after overhead.
Google Voice (accessible in Canada via GMail) has unlimited free calling to anywhere in the US or Canada, although that's usable only on a PC.
I've been using Skype on my iPhone for when I need to make long distance calls (or calls outside my CityFido zone), due to the simplicity, even if it doesn't have the lowest per-minute rate. I should maybe give this Dell Voice app a try, what with the free thing going on...
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 J E F FWhatta Ya Think About Dat?Premium
join:2004-04-01
Kitchener, ON
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I got it already, not sure how long they can keep it free, but it appears to work well. Hoping for a BB 10 version. Outfit is in Cambridge, maybe that will help out RIM.
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I have a friend who hacked these guys »www.freephoneline.ca/ onto his own SIP on a home network that forwards calls to his Android smartphone on his company's wifi network at work.
A bit of a kludge but it seems to work nicely for him.  |
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GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | said by lugnut :I have a friend who hacked these guys »www.freephoneline.ca/ onto his own SIP on a home network that forwards calls to his Android smartphone on his company's wifi network at work.
A bit of a kludge but it seems to work nicely for him.
The disadvantage to that is that you're adding a bunch more points of failure and latency compared to doing it entirely server-side.
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| Once he forwarded a few ports on the company firewall it ended up working magnificently for him. Call quality is as good as any landline I've heard, and it's not like he has to reconfigure it every day of the week. In a pinch it works well enough for his needs and costs him nothing to call out from work. Of course he has the advantage of being sysadmin for his company so ymmv... |
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 eksterBoo
join:2010-07-16
Lachine, QC
kudos:1
·TekSavvy DSL
·FreePhoneLine
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said by J E F F:I got it already, not sure how long they can keep it free, but it appears to work well. Hoping for a BB 10 version. Outfit is in Cambridge, maybe that will help out RIM.
For a while. Dellvoice is provided by freephoneline.ca (they're using the fongo name, owned by Fibernetics) and sponsored by Dell. |
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I wonder how the Dell Voice service compares with the Freephoneline service....any idea? |
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 JCohenPremium
join:2010-10-19
Nepean, ON
kudos:2
·TekSavvy Cable
 ·Bell Fibe
·Rogers Hi-Speed
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said by lugnut :I have a friend who hacked these guys »www.freephoneline.ca/ onto his own SIP on a home network that forwards calls to his Android smartphone on his company's wifi network at work.
Doubt he hacked it, he most likely paid $50 for their SIP config file. |
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 andybPremium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario
kudos:1
·TekSavvy DSL
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said by lugnut :I have a friend who hacked these guys »www.freephoneline.ca/ onto his own SIP on a home network that forwards calls to his Android smartphone on his company's wifi network at work.
A bit of a kludge but it seems to work nicely for him.
Not sure how he did that.Dell voice is freephoneline anyway |
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said by JCohen:said by lugnut :I have a friend who hacked these guys »www.freephoneline.ca/ onto his own SIP on a home network that forwards calls to his Android smartphone on his company's wifi network at work.
Doubt he hacked it, he most likely paid $50 for their SIP config file. Actually he did. He found a free config file at one of those "websites-who-cannot-be-named" and he was good to go. He says they eventually catch on and disable you but after having the chance to try it out he is willing to pay the $50 now anyway... |
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said by andyb:said by lugnut :I have a friend who hacked these guys »www.freephoneline.ca/ onto his own SIP on a home network that forwards calls to his Android smartphone on his company's wifi network at work.
A bit of a kludge but it seems to work nicely for him.
Not sure how he did that.Dell voice is freephoneline anyway I'm not certain of the details myself, but the guy is Cisco certified and knows his stuff. I have managed to reach him thru this number at his work myself so I do know it works both for incoming and outgoing calls. |
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