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Free World Dialup Is No Longer Free

August 8, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

According to various reports after over a decade Free World Dialup is moving to a paid service model. I can’t help but feel that something is being lost in this transition. I’ve had a FWD account for years (54245) but rarely ever used it beyond testing Asterisk servers. I does ring through to my desk phone, passed over IAX2 to my Astlinux box. Someone said that the IAX2 access has been down recently, but I haven’t noticed.

I once spoke to a guy down in Argentina who just happened to answer the intro line. I also left Jeff Pulver a voice message once. His number was really cool and low, like 1001 if I recall. Mostly I just called their echo test to verify connectivity.

FWD was fun. It was truly HAM radio on the internet. It was part of what drew me into VOIP.

DECT Wars: snom m3 vs Siemens S685IP

August 3, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

If you’ve been hanging around these parts a while you’ll already know that I’ve had the snom m3 SIP DECT phone system installed since mid-January. I got lucky and bought one of the first units delivered to snom’s US distributor in Dallas.

Then a few months later, and after hearing rave reviews from a few people abroad, I imported a Siemens S685IP SIP DECT phone system from the UK. So now we have two SIP DECT systems on the property.

Why you ask?

Phweet: A Way To Invoke A Voice Call Via Twitter

August 1, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

Now here's a new service that in makes perfect sense to me. Phweet bridges the divide between your Twitter account and your phone. You can invite a call from someone on Twitter without passing them your contact details. Within the…

Siemens S685IP Software Update

August 1, 2008
Michael Graves
VoIP

I must admit that in the chaos around my office lately I’ve had the Siemens S685IP DECT system powered off. Today I took some time to get the base installed where I really want it, which is way up high along with the antenna from the Portech GSM gateway. When I powered it back up the handset reported that there was a new firmware update.

Updated Home-Office Network Diagram

July 30, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband, VoIP

I puzzles me how to see how many people find the diagram of my home/office network interesting. Yet it consistently gets a lot of traffic, so here’s an update to the original one I posted in March.

Today’s VOIP Users Call & My SIP URI

July 25, 2008
Michael Graves
Broadband

Well it certainly was a pity that today’s VOIP Users Conference call didn’t happen. Randulo, our host, was just about to start the call when he lost IP connectivity with the world. As such he lost control of the Talkshoe conference bridge. People could call in, but he could not unmute anyone.

Judging from irc channel and the Talkshoe web app there were a number of people trying to be on the call. However, the conference bridge kept us all muted. Too bad.