voipcowboy

Sunrocket sues Vonage too?! LINK

I can’t believe it.

_MWhite

Yo!

New TrixBox for VTWhite page up!

Enjoy.

_MWhite

For some of you in the northeast that have been experiencing latency issues with your ISP, it appears that someone had the great idea to shoot a fiber line with a firearm. Apparently, they couldn’t tell if it was shot with a handgun or a shotgun. You would think it would be fairly easy to differentiate, but I’m no expert.

Link

ha. Sounds like this has been a wicked fun week to be a new engineer at Teleblend. How exciting!

I wonder what backbone they’re using?

“Customers of SunRocket Inc., the VOIP company that recently folded, may have hoped their troubles were over when two competitors stepped up to offer them service in the absence of the failed provider.

But for some, transferring to one of the new providers hasn’t proved to be a better option than SunRocket. Some customers that chose to move to Teleblend, one of the companies that offered to buy SunRocket customers, have had poor service this week.” LINK

_MWhite

I was scanning some recent Voip articles today and ran across Debra Littlejohn Shinders’ 10 Things You Should Know About VoIP Over Wireless posted on blogs.techrepublic.com

I don’t know who Debra is - But she makes some valid points about Voip over wireless. I personally think that at this point [voip over wireless] is functional at best. In time it could be as good as wired, but until then, I’ll take mine via ethernet.

Good article to read over if you want to know the basic ins and outs about wireless VoiP.

Number 7 is my personal favorite. LINK

_MWhite

…We’ve gone critical.

Awesome.

I wonder what happens to my sunrocket number now?

_MWhite

I just added a tutorial to get up and running with VTWhite and Asterisk.

We’ll be posting basic examples for extensions.conf in the next few days - in the meantime feel free to send us your suggestions if you think you’ve got something cool.

- the evil genius

Edit: Samples added.

We all knew it was going to happen sometime.  Vonage’s stock has dropped over $11 dollars per share in the last year.

I’d hate to be an investor for that…

Check it out.

- the evil genius

I added a quick tutorial explaining how to loop through multiple rows on a MySQL table using Asterisk.

- the evil genius

After a week of using GC, I’ll admit it:

I’m hooked.

The concept is pretty solid.

I started this week thinking that I wouldn’t find a need for another local number in my life and I [actually] put GC aside for the first couple of days.

I really liked the control panel, I breezed through the feature list and it was intriguing, and the service actually expands any telephones capability in some amazing ways. I just didn’t really think I’d find a use for it.

I started giving the number out to a few friends. People asked if they could still SMS me. That was one of the biggest reasons I couldn’t make the switch. So I didn’t sign in for a day or two.

I brought up GrandCentral in conversation this morning with a friend of mine. He had an excellent usage for it.

Now - Please let me preface this part of the story with a fact: I hate phone-accessed voicemail.

I hate listening to the menus, pressing the keys, remembering how to delete or save. All of it.

Hate it. Completely. For ever.

So anyway, it turns out that with Verizon Wireless [which I have] you can dial *71 and any ten digit number to set up a 1 step call hunt. I put my Grand Central number in there, and turned off the forwarding on my GC account. Done.

An easy switch to Grand Central voicemail system.

If a call comes in, and I miss it - The hunt rings GC [which goes directly to voicemail]. I get a txt letting me know I have voicemail. Web access, phone access, email access - Whatever you like.

Now I’m the only one who needs to know the number, so I can check my vmail when I don’t have web access. And I can apply filters that are applied for who can leave a message, what folder it goes into, etc. The control panel is great. I think with a little google magic it will be phenom come official release-time. There are still some features that I need to mess with a bit, before deeming them useful or not; However I’m convinced that this will be [at the very least] my voicemail for the rest of my Verizon days. I am so thankful that I was made aware of this ninja tactic. It’s perfect.

So far, that’s what I’ve got. When you look at it from start to finish - I really picked up most of this satisfaction today.

Get yourself an invite. Yesterday.

_MWhite