Skypephone S2, 3 Mobile Broadband and Skype
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From: Steve Terry on 26 Dec 2009 08:15 "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:hh3l05$vu0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > >> On a separate issue: the phone comes with free Skype to Skype calls for >> ever. >> However, I don't knowingly know any Skype users! >> I may well actually know some, but simply not be aware that they *are* >> Skype users. >> Is there any simple way of finding out, other than asking everyone >> individually - >> such as a publicly accessible Skype directory? > > My son has completed his first University semester without any PAYG credit > in his S2. > It didn't stop him from calling normal landlines and mobiles. > I put some notes on the Skype Gateway technique used here: > http://www.skypegateway.webs.com/ > Graham. > > Clever idea, except i think you'll now find: http://backsla.sh/betamax shows smartvoip.com, or 12voip.com, are now cheaper than smslisto.com, to uk mobiles Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276
From: Graham. on 26 Dec 2009 08:47 "Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message news:hh529k$pof$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:hh3l05$vu0$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> >>> On a separate issue: the phone comes with free Skype to Skype calls for ever. >>> However, I don't knowingly know any Skype users! >>> I may well actually know some, but simply not be aware that they *are* Skype users. >>> Is there any simple way of finding out, other than asking everyone individually - >>> such as a publicly accessible Skype directory? >> >> My son has completed his first University semester without any PAYG credit in his S2. >> It didn't stop him from calling normal landlines and mobiles. >> I put some notes on the Skype Gateway technique used here: >> http://www.skypegateway.webs.com/ >> Graham. >> >> > Clever idea, except i think you'll now find: > http://backsla.sh/betamax shows smartvoip.com, or 12voip.com, > are now cheaper than smslisto.com, to uk mobiles A penny-pinching Scrooge like me would not have missed that! Here's the problem, I pay Betamax by Paypal, and when you change clone and try and pay via the same route, the payment is rejected with a message that says you can't have the same Paypal account associated with more than one Betamax product. I got around that a couple of times by closing my PP account, opening a fresh one and registering the same CC to it. All was well until the last time I tried the above, but in error I tried to register my CC to the new account before I had closed the existing one. This had the effect of blocking my CC on PP completely! After several grovelling emails to PP Customer Support they removed the block, but told me I would not be able to move that card to a different account in the future. I do have a debit card registerd to another PP account that I use for my own smslisto account, I will probably change that to smartvoip when the credit expires. -- Graham. %Profound_observation%
From: Roger Mills on 27 Dec 2009 17:31 In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Graham. <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > My son has completed his first University semester without any PAYG > credit in his S2. It didn't stop him from calling normal landlines > and mobiles. I put some notes on the Skype Gateway technique used here: > http://www.skypegateway.webs.com/ Thanks for the reminder. I can almost understand the updated version. <g> Can you please tell me: * Does it work in the other direction - i.e. can people make incoming calls to the gateway (which presumably has an 01/02/03 number) and have them automatically redirected to your Skypephone? If so, is the re-direction free? * I currently have a VoIP account with voip.co.uk - using ordinary analog phones plugged into a Linksys PAP2 which is, in turn, plugged into my broadband router. Could I use your gateway concept with this, or does the SIP bit have to be handled entirely within the computer? -- Cheers, Roger ______ Email address maintained for newsgroup use only, and not regularly monitored.. Messages sent to it may not be read for several weeks. PLEASE REPLY TO NEWSGROUP!
From: Graham. on 27 Dec 2009 21:36 "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:7pq5hlFe0vU1(a)mid.individual.net... > In an earlier contribution to this discussion, > Graham. <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> >> My son has completed his first University semester without any PAYG >> credit in his S2. It didn't stop him from calling normal landlines >> and mobiles. I put some notes on the Skype Gateway technique used here: >> http://www.skypegateway.webs.com/ > > > Thanks for the reminder. I can almost understand the updated version. <g> > > Can you please tell me: > * Does it work in the other direction - i.e. can people make incoming calls to the gateway (which presumably has an 01/02/03 > number) and have them automatically redirected to your Skypephone? If so, is the re-direction free? > * I currently have a VoIP account with voip.co.uk - using ordinary analog phones plugged into a Linksys PAP2 which is, in turn, > plugged into my broadband router. Could I use your gateway concept with this, or does the SIP bit have to be handled entirely > within the computer? > -- > Cheers, > Roger Yes indeed, as the account would only need to accept incoming calls I just used a free Sipgate one. (IIRC) The account details are registered in siptosys.cfg and the target Skype account goes in SyptoSkypeAuth.props in the format *,*,*skypeusername. I tried it when I first commissioned it and it works fine, but I didn't retain the feature simply because if Andrew was making an outgoing call when I called him, his call gets terminated. -- Graham. %Profound_observation%
From: andy on 29 Dec 2009 09:52
On 26 Dec, 00:22, "Graham." <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > On a separate issue: the phone comes with free Skype to Skype calls for ever. However, I don't knowingly know any Skype users! I > > may well actually know some, but simply not be aware that they *are* Skype users. Is there any simple way of finding out, other > > than asking everyone individually - such as a publicly accessible Skype directory? > > My son has completed his first University semester without any PAYG credit in his S2. > It didn't stop him from calling normal landlines and mobiles. > I put some notes on the Skype Gateway technique used here:http://www.skypegateway.webs.com/ This is good, and there are other methods, but they nearly all seem to rely on having a PC on with Skype and the other client running. What would make this great is to have such a method available without having to run one's own server. For some time I'd been about to get around to trying something out, when Google bought Gizmo and it closed to new accounts, thus removing one of the components I'd been wondering about. |