maygb2000
join:2004-01-08
Philippines | [FWD] Packet8 peering
does anyone know if the packet8-fwd interconnection is still up? i have been trying to call fwd numbers from my packet8 line: i just get long silence then a busy tone. anyone? thanks
marsha |
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cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD | Same results here. Last week I could call P8 to FWD but not FWD to P8. |
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jeffpulver
Premium,VIP
join:2003-02-08
Melville, NY
| Looks like someone at Packet8 broke our peering relationship.
This may have been an unintended mistake on their part, but at the moment there isn't anyone we have found yet on their side who will address this.
Please reach out to their customer support and make sure they know this is something that they should address.
Thanks. |
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PCInTech
In another place and time.
Premium
join:2004-06-07
Massena, NY
clubs: | reply to maygb2000
Seems it's broken. I get nothing when calling from P8 to FWD, and a busy when going from FWD to P8. I found this handy for a long time and wish it worked again. What I'd REALLY like to see work again... is the VoicePulse to FWD peering! |
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BillRoland
Premium
join:2001-01-21
Ocala, FL
clubs:
 ·Cox HSI
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This may be a topic for another thread, but, what I don't understand is why is it so hard to keep peering between the VoIP vendors operating? FWD peering to commercial VoIP is not very stable at all and tends to go out weeks at a time. I can't understand why it can't be fixed in 5 minutes.
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"Don't steal. The government hates competition." |
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illek
Premium
join:2005-03-23
Tulsa, OK
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Just Musing here, but could not Peering be easily abused? For example, say I was in India and needed to call a USA number and I had a buddy over here who used P8. All the buddy would have to do is forward his P8 number to the number I wanted to call and I could call using FWD. Maybe the abuse issue is why the commercial VoIP vendors are not to enthusiastic about keeping it going. |
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BillRoland
Premium
join:2001-01-21
Ocala, FL
clubs:
·Cox HSI
| I was under the impression that it really doesn't cost them anything to complete a call over the peering link. Maybe they don't make anything using it either. I don't know that could be it.
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"Don't steal. The government hates competition." |
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IanR
join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ | reply to maygb2000
Perhaps Jeff could enlighten us on the queries here. I would be interested to learn more. Thanks. |
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cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD
 ·VoicePulse for Bus..
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Comcast
·Future Nine Corpor..
·VoiceStick
| reply to jeffpulver
said by jeffpulver  :Looks like someone at Packet8 broke our peering relationship. This may have been an unintended mistake on their part, but at the moment there isn't anyone we have found yet on their side who will address this. Please reach out to their customer support and make sure they know this is something that they should address. Thanks. I just spoke with P8 support. Neither he nor the rep I spoke with this morning knew what FWD is. I told them to read the Packet8 FAQ. They will get back to me within 48 hours. I was unable to call the Packet8 800 support number from FWD. |
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PJIV
Premium
join:2004-07-13
Niagara Falls, NY | I couldn't call their 800 number either, because they don't have one. It's a 888 number and it works fine.
1-888-898-8733 |
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voiplover
Premium
join:2004-05-28
Portsmouth, NH
·callwithus
·Axvoice
2 edits |  reply to cbrain
said by cbrain :I just spoke with P8 support. Neither he nor the rep I spoke with this morning knew what FWD is. I told them to read the Packet8 FAQ. They will get back to me within 48 hours. I was unable to call the Packet8 800 support number from FWD. Oh my God! This can't be happening.  Didn't know about FWD? |
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chaud
Serious Business
join:2004-07-09
Anderson, SC | reply to maygb2000
FWD to packet8 is broken for me, P8 to FWD works fine.... |
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jeffpulver
Premium,VIP
join:2003-02-08
Melville, NY
1 edit | reply to jeffpulver
FWD continues to be the industry leader in peering agreements between IP service providers. At the moment we have more than 125 agreements of record.
Some of our peering parters change their proxy IP addresses without notice, so until this is noticed, an outage happens. Those peering partners who care about their third-party relationships give notice in advance of their network changes.
At FWD we need to deal with both kinds of partners.  |
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maygb2000
join:2004-01-08
Philippines | i was able to use p8 to call an fwd number yesterday,,, maybe they r just having problems at the moment... jeff i am aware only of a few peering partners of fwd,,, where can i get full list of peering partners of fwd ?
thanks all..
marsha |
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pcmeet
Official Dta Guru
join:2003-09-15
Montgomery, AL
1 edit | reply to BillRoland
said by BillRoland :I was under the impression that it really doesn't cost them anything to complete a call over the peering link. Maybe they don't make anything using it either. I don't know that could be it. It is when a Packet8 user dial a US or Canadian number to connect a friend using FWD is what cost Packet8, I said that even before the peering started and I didn't expect that Packet8 will approve the peering, I think they had in mind to keep the peering for short time only to increase their customer base, I am a part of that increase as I selected Packet8 over Lingo because of the peering with FWD, too bad from Packet8 to think this way.
The question now is for Jeff, will FWD keep accepting Packet8 incoming calls or will treat Packet8 the same way? |
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voiplover
Premium
join:2004-05-28
Portsmouth, NH
·callwithus
·Axvoice
| It takes too long to reprogram call forwarding and you would have to give up access to your account to do anything serious. I can't believe that someone would make a big exploit of this, but... Vonage did disconnected FWD because this was happening. With P8, someone would have the opportunity to ring up charges. |
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cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD | reply to maygb2000
P8 to FWD is now working, FWD to P8 "888" number works but FWD to P8 still doesn't work for me. |
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pcmeet
Official Dta Guru
join:2003-09-15
Montgomery, AL
1 edit | reply to voiplover
said by voiplover :It takes too long to reprogram call forwarding and you would have to give up access to your account to do anything serious. It takes only 2 clicks if you stay at account settings page, How about three way calling ? |
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HowToGetThat
join:2004-01-11 | How about "call transfer" with vonage
(witch i dont see in the first place why thay include this for free i think it the most abusive feature possible) |
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rizzo2dial
Premium
join:2004-08-05
1 edit | reply to maygb2000
Looks like something's happening w/ this issue.
When attempting to dial a P8 # from FWD, instead of getting the fast busy signal of late, the connection now rings. What it's ringing is another question though, for it doesn't ring the actual 2 different P8 numbers I tried. 
Hopefully Jeff Pulver or somebody from P8 will comment further on this matter.
Rizzo |
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