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Hi,

I have several accounts with Voxalot and most work beautifully. I have had trouble registering voicestick.com. I looked online for help but there seems to be a necessity for specifying STUN disabled and proxy out server. What can I do?

Thank you,

John

I have a voicestick account but I have little idea how to set it up for Voxalot, let alone an ATA. I tried host "206.165.50.116" and username as my 1xxxxxxxxxx phone number but it doesn't seem to work. I would also appreciate pointers.

I got it to work. I basically specified 206.165.50.116 as the sip address and it works both in and out. I am relieved as voicesticks is the only company offering a free local number where I live.

Great speed and with voxalot - perfect combination!

jmstosch

Really? I am the one who suggested the settings to you and I can't seem to use them myself. Dialing out works--testing with Voicestick as my priority 1 generic provider in Voxalot. I have my username (1518xxxxxxx) and host (206.165.50.116) and port 5060, with my password entered and codecs selected, Active Yes and SIP Register Yes. Yet I cannot receive any calls at my ATA registered with Voxalot. Oddly, calling from Teliax I hear a ring several times, and then go to a slow busy (error 503 on my Grandstream) but no ringing will ever occur on my ATA. Calling from SkypeOut and there is a long pause and then a 'your number cannot be completed as dialed' operator warning.

However with my Voicestick softphone up and running concurrently--not changing any Voxalot registration settings, a call to my phone number rings the softphone (but still not the Voxalot address). I can pick up with the softphone and have a regular conversation.

Voicestick is the only company demonstrating this behaviour for me. VBuzzer, FWD, and Gizmo Project all work fine with my current settings as far as I can tell. I'd appreciate it if you (or anyone) has any idea what I can do to fix it. I thought it was a Voxalot server-side problem initially. But if call-in works for Voicestick with anyone else here then it probably would be one of my settings, unless the specific number I have with them is freaky-deaky. Can other people be called at their Voicestick number(s) registered to Voxalot where it works fine?

Wow, I see. It worked for me for about 5 min. I called and the ata rang. Then it stopped. Out is fine but no more in-bound calling. The ATA (mine is a Grandstream 486) works well when set up to only use Voicestick - so it will work outside of the softphone environment. I guess that it has to do with specifying a proxy server and sip server which are different. Voxalot does not support this - until they do - there is probably little one can do. Anyone else have advise???

If I have Exetel's VoIP registered, then outgoing calls work and the calls present the DID. However when I call the DID, I get a message saying that the phone is not accepting calls.

Without Exetel registered through voxalot.com.au I can make a call using voxalot.com.au via sipbroker *393613 -- take a call on Exetel on the 2nd FXS port and all is fine [unless of course I need to take an incoming PSTN call, but then again another phone not connected to the 7402VGO can answer that].

I'm waiting for Exetel to change my plan so that I lose benefit from using their VoIP and then I will cancel the VoIP service with them and use SIPME and/or FreeCall instead [or even some of my excessive mobile phone credits, there are so many options when a single provider doesn't quite work out well].

Asterisk setup instructions for Voicestick:

http://voxilla.com/index.php?name=PN...ee43da33#40810

Looks like a regular registration. This is essentially what VoXaLot would be doing.

Hi Martin,

I understand the Asterisk registration but how does that translate to the web registratin with Voxalot?

Thank you!

Even so, other things that chandave says are required in Asterisk (like 60 minute exactly registrations and non-cache re-registrations) Voxalot is presumably not doing, since we know Voicestick's DID is not working registered through Voxalot.

I think that it all comes down to being able to specify both, the sip address (i2telecom.com) as well as the proxy out 206..... which voxalot does not yet permit. I programmed voicesticks into my Grandstream GXP 2000 - and no problem. Too bad that voxalot cannot accomodate. It would have been nice.

I am hoping whatever change(s) is/are needed are not that big of a deal to implement in the complex Asterisk server setup Voxalot really just is at bottom, because we know it is possible to get Voicestick working on Asterisk (chandave provided a working configuration at Voxilla) and Voxalot afaik is just a really innovative way to use Asterisk, so ergo is should be possible to get Voxalot to do it. I guess a larger question is whether Voxalot is designed to be able to handle these 'difficult' idiosyncratic cases or if at this point all the system can handle is the straightforward way one registers with FWD or SIPPhone.

Asterisk is one of the components that is behind VoXaLot as well as SER and our own telephony framework.

That said, registration does use Asterisk functionality (with our security enhancement), so it should be possible.

We will take a look and advise.

Any chance of getting some kind of detailed documentation on the setup? And your security enhancement, is it GPL and available for anyone?

Hi,

In earlier days I had similar problems with calling in to my ATA: After 5 mins it didn’t ring anymore.

Try the following:

In the Router Settings, the PPoE-tab, set the “Idle Timeout" from 5 Minutes (or the default value) to zero.

This will maintain the ATA’s internet connection alive, and the server can find and call your ATA even after 5 minutes of inactivity.

For me it works.

Cheers, krisch

hi krisch, we are thinking right now this is a Voxalot compatibility problem with Voicestick's unusual SIP requirements and not with STUN/NAT, because concerning myself at least this problem with the DID not working is not universal for me (I have been using VOIP for a long time and all my providers work well and DIDs work well), but limited to one very specific and isolated case: ATA registered to Voxalot with Voicestick registered to Voxalot. Anyway this thread is sorta becoming unprofitable to continue until something new occurs so this is my last post in this thread till then.

Has there been any progress on getting VoiceStick to register with VoXaLot?

I have not been able to get it to work. I simply use two ATAs HT486. One connected to the other to get Voicestick to work on my phone. I would LOVE to see it compatible with Voxalot. I think that as long as I cannot specify a proxy out server different from a sip realm - no chance

Martin, you mentioned "ask and you shall receive"- I am asking.:)

-Jmstosch

Could you post your GXP 2000's settings for voicesti? Thanks.