sdowney717
September 15th, 2007, 02:31 PM
The way to do this is
sign up for a free sip account
I used FWD
http://www.freeworlddialup.com/
Link you free sip account using IPKALL (truly free)
a Washington State local phone number
http://www.ipkall.com/
get a Linksys ATA, I use a SPA2102
setup the SPA2102 using the voxilla config wizard for you free sip account.
This lets you plug in a regular phone into the ehernet for calls
http://voxilla.com/tools/device-configuration-wizard/
Get an invite for Google GrandCentral, this lets you pick a local phone number in your area.
http://www.grandcentral.com
Then link it to the Washington state number you got from IPKALL.
So anyone can call me locally on my second line. The call arrives at Google GrandCentral, and is forwarded to IPKALL washington state number which is forwarded to my FWD sip number.
Sp far really good voice quality
I also found something called chatcord. This lets you plug in a regular phone into the speaker and mike inputs on the pc.
http://www.chat-cord.com/
I dont have this but it looks interesting
I also like XLITE, a free soft phone that I configured to use with FWD. This seems better than FWD communicator softphone.
http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/xlite_softphone.html
Grandcentral looks to be very interesting. You can have all your calls come into this one number and depending on who they are, forward them out to any number of phones. Plus all the usual voice mail, etc....
sign up for a free sip account
I used FWD
http://www.freeworlddialup.com/
Link you free sip account using IPKALL (truly free)
a Washington State local phone number
http://www.ipkall.com/
get a Linksys ATA, I use a SPA2102
setup the SPA2102 using the voxilla config wizard for you free sip account.
This lets you plug in a regular phone into the ehernet for calls
http://voxilla.com/tools/device-configuration-wizard/
Get an invite for Google GrandCentral, this lets you pick a local phone number in your area.
http://www.grandcentral.com
Then link it to the Washington state number you got from IPKALL.
So anyone can call me locally on my second line. The call arrives at Google GrandCentral, and is forwarded to IPKALL washington state number which is forwarded to my FWD sip number.
Sp far really good voice quality
I also found something called chatcord. This lets you plug in a regular phone into the speaker and mike inputs on the pc.
http://www.chat-cord.com/
I dont have this but it looks interesting
I also like XLITE, a free soft phone that I configured to use with FWD. This seems better than FWD communicator softphone.
http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/xlite_softphone.html
Grandcentral looks to be very interesting. You can have all your calls come into this one number and depending on who they are, forward them out to any number of phones. Plus all the usual voice mail, etc....