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Unread 12-09-2008, 01:46 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Bumblebee View Post
My understanding is that adding a gizmo5 account does not require SIP registration. Does this mean that calls to Voxalot would forward to gizmo? Or would a lite account be required to setup call plans?
A (free) basic account allows you to make call plans, but does NOT allow you to register. So a basic account can be used for any outbound calling you want (including with call plans that go via SIPphone/Gizmo5 as a provider). So if you only intend to make outbound calls via your SIPphone/Gizmo5 account (and don't care about receiving inbound SIPphone/Gizmo5 calls), you are good to go only any of the VoXaLot account plans (including the "free basic" VoXaLot plan).

However, since a basic account doesn't let you "register", if you want to have inbound calls from your provider (in your case SIPphone/Gizmo5) you either:

A) Need to upgrade your VoXaLot account to at least a "Lite" account, so that you can "register" your provider with your VoXaLot account.

or B) Somehow setup your provider send inbound calls directly to your VoIP adapter, bypassing VoXaLot (for inbound). The details of this (if it's possible at all), would vary with your VoIP provider and which VoIP hardware you have.

or C) If you have a provider that allows you to forward inbound calls to a SIP URI (internet phone address), you could tell your provider to forward those calls to sip:*010xxxxx@us.voxalot.com (where xxxxxx is your 6 digit VoXaLot number). If you can do this (and unless I missed that feature on my SIPPhone/Gizmo5 account, SIPPhone/Gizmo5 does NOT offer such "inbound call forwarding") than the inbound "forwarded call" will ring your VoXaLot attached VoIP adapter (even on a free/basic VoXaLot account).

NOTE: Unless I overlooked some SIPPhone/Gizmo5 forwarding feature, I don't think option C (forwarding the inbound call to VoXaLot) is an option with SIPPhone/Gizmo5. But option C does work very well with some other providers, to allow inbound calls without using up any "registration" spot on VoXaLot (and therefore that option can work even with a "basic" VoXaLot account). For example, http://ipkall.com provides free incoming phone numbers, and you can easily attach an incoming IPKall number to a VoXaLot account (even a "basic" VoXaLot account) by simply telling IPKall to send the call to "SIP Phone Number:" *010xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is your VoXaLot 6-digit number) and "SIP Proxy:" us.voxalot.com

FWIW: I have some limited experience with SIPPhone/Gizmo5, because I keep one of their accounts around to give me (and my family) access to their free "Backdoor Dialing" feature. And so I know that SIPPhone/Gizmo5 accounts do (if properly setup in VoXaLot) work fine as an "outbound only" provider even on the basic VoXaLot account. However, since I haven't yet bothered setting up SIPphone/Gizmo5 for incoming calls, I haven't investigated much as to which of the above options actually work (with SIPPhone/Gizmo5) for incoming calls. So if you also need incoming SIPPhone/Gizmo5 calls, YMMV.
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