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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....

sdowney717
September 17th, 2007, 11:50 AM
I just found out, I can use google grandcentral to call out to another pstn or cell phone with my freeworlddialup sip account.
they have a click2call feature. right now the beta is free outcalling. I suppose in the future when grandcentral goes mainstream online for everyone, they will charge perhaps a fractional cents per minute to call out. We talked for over one hour on it and it did not drop the call.

sdowney717
September 17th, 2007, 12:02 PM
you can request an invite from google grandcentral yourself by going here

it is under the general tab
'How do I get an invite ?'

http://www.grandcentral.com/support/faqs

forrestcupp
September 17th, 2007, 02:08 PM
interesting. Can you call out to regular land lines?

sdowney717
September 18th, 2007, 12:59 PM
yes,
If you just use the FWD service you can call 800 numbers by typing an asterisk in front of number '*1800 etc'

And using google grandcentral you can call out using click2call.

brianlawson
February 9th, 2008, 03:25 AM
If I understand this setup correctly, I think you can skip a step now if you use Gizmo.

GrandCentral recently added the ability to add a Gizmo account to the list of numbers that will ring. So, you can bypass the IPKall step and have GrandCentral ring your SIP number on your Gizmo account directly.

TheOtherShoe
February 21st, 2008, 07:34 PM
If I understand this setup correctly, I think you can skip a step now if you use Gizmo.

GrandCentral recently added the ability to add a Gizmo account to the list of numbers that will ring. So, you can bypass the IPKall step and have GrandCentral ring your SIP number on your Gizmo account directly.

This is what I have set up - and it is pretty neat!

Unfortunately, I don't see any way to set up SIP addresses from other carriers in GrandCentral.

Maybelline
May 29th, 2008, 05:58 PM
I have a similar setup (using IPKall, etc), but I can't get the "click2call" buttons to do anything. They work fine using GC from my Treo, but when I'm at home, on Ubuntu Hardy (w/ Firefox 3.0 and the Flash plugin - not gnash), clicking the button does absolutely nothing. I've made sure that Firefox's Javascript & Java boxes are checked, since the source of the page looks to make a javascript call, but it doesn't even budge.

Does anyone have ideas for what I'm doing wrong?

jv

mips
May 29th, 2008, 06:40 PM
I just found out, I can use google grandcentral to call out to another pstn or cell phone with my freeworlddialup sip account.
they have a click2call feature.

Can you call worldwide for free or only USA?

geek2330
June 11th, 2008, 03:18 PM
Can you call worldwide for free or only USA?

wondering the same question.....can someone answer this?