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 Fisamo
Premium
join:2004-02-20
Apex, NC
 ·VOIPo
·AT&T CallVantage
| CID time off by 3 hours can be fixed... I presume you have the Centillium TA, as that's what AT&T is sending out nowadays... If you plug a PC into the LAN port of the TA, you can go to 192.168.15.1 and click through the menus. IIRC, there's a menu that says "system" and within that, an option called "Localization" where you can set the time zone. It comes to Pacific time by default. Once you change it to Eastern, you'll be all set.  | |
| ExtremeRFR
join:2005-05-13
West New York, NJ | Localization needs updates Go to 192.168.15.1 and click you will see SYSTEM on the top corner. Click it and you should see LOCALIZATION and from there you can change the time settings. It's under Pacific Time (Default). Did that help? | |
| ExtremeRFR
join:2005-05-13
West New York, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
| What happened? AT&T is canceling customers who's not on the 911 databases? That's new. So you still have Call Vantage or VoicePulse? Another thing, how is VoicePulse? Do you still get full Caller Id with name like CV? What about the call quality, is it good or better than CV? What features are included? Let me know ... thanks! | |
| | Lenagainster
join:2005-01-07
Silver Spring, MD
·VoicePulse
 ·DIRECTV
·magicjack.com
| Re: What happened? Check out this thread on the VoIP forum:
»[ATT CV] Suspended because of no E-911
Yes, AT&T is sending cancellation notices to certain customers, effective 5/21.
I have VoicePulse, very pleased with it. No, it does not transmit the name, just the number, a slight annoyance to some friends, but they are getting used to it. Call quality is the same, very good. More features, including 'unlimited filters' at no extra charge (CV wants $2 for 20). 99 speed dial vs. CV's 20 and easier to use; one or two digits followed by # rather than ATTxx#. Big difference is that one has a choice of what message to give blocked callers and I alway use 'not in service' tone and message. ATT has only one choice; 'this subscriber does not accept calls from this number' almost begging a telemarketer to just call from a different number. Paying VP $15.89 total for unlimited state-wide calling plus 200 min LD vs. $32.60 total for unlimited local and LD from CV. | |
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indyacnrep
@comcast.net | Send all of em my way I'm working for ACN and their VOIP works just fine and has great E911 service. If AT&T don't want em... WE DO!
»boutwell.acnrep.com
indyacnrep@gmail.com
For more details. | |
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Slashdot reader
@comcast.net | Note for AT&T Customers I found it unfair that AT&T will not allow their VOIP customers to keep their phone numbers.
However, there is a free new directory that allows them to be found by their old phone numbers. I hope it helps - www.lookmeup.org | |
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spike98905
@verizon.net
| E911 related to satellite locating you for ads Most mobile fones now have GIS chips in them so that when you make a call, your location is recorded in foneco records along with the number you called and the conversation record. Now this is related to the '911 system' so that your location can be also relayed to the police if homeland security so desires. Lately it desires a lot! Now if 'E911' does not work right, then fonecos could be pressured to make sure it does or 'get out of the business'. I do not know if that is the case, but another possibility is that your location may be so part of the 'E911' ability that it is inseparable, like as part of the ASIC chip that contains the GIS feature on your cellfone. Thay may also mean that if the 'E911' feature is not working, then neither is the 'graphical location of you so you can be efficiently commercially exploited as you location is known and plottable as a function of time feature'. It is this last autolocation of you feature when you call or when your fone has power with either a public or hidden and undocumented battery..this feature that can make the telcos, like AT&T, money. And money indeed! Think of all the automatic billboards that can now 'see you' when you are in proximity. Having 'seen' you by 'hearing' and automatically computer internet checking your 'signal' and accessing your 'commercial profile and your credit rating, the sign then proceeds to hand you 'relevant advertising' as you pass by with eyesight of the 'smart sign'. If your credit is good, how about a 'new car'. If you are semi-wealthy, how about a condominium timeshare in Florida? ...and if your credit is bad, how about a 'bill consolidating loan' or a 'second mortgage'? Now if you are flagged as a deadbeat, then how about: "Pay up you bum" or some such? Of course if you are 'wanted' for some reason, then the same machinery can call the law for you so that you can be conveniently arrested at the next available intersection. Hey, Graphical Information Systems integrated into your fone are a 'trusted system' now....ARE'NT THEY? | |
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