Comments on: Free U.S. Calls with Asterisk: Here’s How

By: DON

DON — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:56:28 +0000

But GOIAX is not working why.

[WM: Check the date of the article. GoIAX has been GoneIAX for more than a year.]

By: Sertys

Sertys — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:34:59 +0000

So, goiax.com is dead now and domain is down for maintenance… Pitty.

By: George Steinmetz

George Steinmetz — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:57:07 +0000

The DNS record for server1.goiax.com is gone, that’s why you can’t ping them. (I don’t know if the server itself is still running, as I don’t have a cached IP address for server1.goiax.com.)

By: kato

kato — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:40:54 +0000

Is goiax working for anyone right now? I haven’t been able to logon let alone ping server1.goiax.com for about a week now.

By: ppmax

ppmax — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:48:28 +0000

Just wanted to know if goaix.com is still working for others. I set up an account this morning, added a Outbound Routing and Trunk for goaix but am getting "All circuits are busy" messages. I ran asterisk -r and set verbosity to 5. I can see that I’m (at least) connecting to goaix.com…but since this is my first adventure with Asterisk Im not sure if my set up is correct…

[WM: GoIAX is having problems with war-dialers at the moment and has discontinued free calls to any destination other than toll free numbers. Hopefully, they’ll be back in business soon. Check their web site for updates.]

By: greyhound

greyhound — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:26:33 +0000

I’m also having problems with incoming calls using goiax’s new DIDs. The call appears to flow from the PSTN (the DID phone number) into goiax, and make it to my asterisk server. Once there, it generates a "chan_iax2.c: 5448 socket_read: Rejected connect attempt from 204.13.233.114″ message on my console. That 204 IP is the address of goiax’s server, so it’s generating a message, but my server is refusing the connection. This, I suspect, is a configuration issue. Unfortunately, goiax’s web site is might thin (er, well, absent) on documentation, so I’ve been poking around in the dark, but so far no goodness. Hope someone else is making better progress.

By: greyhound

greyhound — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:21:48 +0000

I too am having problems with goiax. It worked when I first set it up, but it hasn’t worked for me for at least the last 3 days except on toll free calls. Is it working for anyone else on regular long distance calls?

By: John Huang

John Huang — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:08:57 +0000

Good series of articles. By any chance, do you know how to change the script files to make AAH enable call waiting always, instead of disabled by default? The Asterisk has it enabled by default. I want user hear beep and pick up incoming calls instead of going to VM. Thanks.

By: John Huang

John Huang — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:07:58 +0000

Good series of articles. By any chance, do you know how to change the script files to make AAH enable call waiting always, instead of disabled by default and need using * code to enable it everytime? The Asterisk has it enabled by default. I want to hear beep and pick up incoming calls instead of going to VM. Thanks.

By: save6uc

save6uc — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:57:52 +0000

goiax have started giving out DIDs… But I am having problem receiving calls with it… has anyone else tried it?

By: mms

mms — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:45:57 +0000

thanx for the great service , i’ve tried it and it was o lalalalalalal heheh, but im asking can we make free calls to uk #’s using GoIAX, or i neeed another providers .. plz help in this

By: save6uc

save6uc — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:27:47 +0000

I guess GOIAX has stopped working… No Outgoing calls any more… is anyone having the same problem?

[WM: There was a problem with the compression codecs which they’ve been working on. But I’m now able to make outgoing calls with no difficulties. Be sure you’re registered, and try again.]

By: rajesh

rajesh — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:23:15 +0000

I use BV for all my incoming and international calls and – often – its great. International calls are reasonably cheap, but the quality suffers sometimes; Also, their support seems to be too lazy; they responded to one of my QoS related complain after 3 days with a bunch of questions on the details of call and time of call ,etc. Overall, I don’t have much of a problem using it for my purposes and incoming calls’ quality is great!

GoIAX is simply good! I am very satisfied with it – except for callerID. Thanks for great article to get me started with it.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:10:59 +0000

Goiax has one minor issue; caller id is locked to the one assigned by them and it is not changeable (as far as I can tell) in Asterisk. This is an issue as only Goiax users can call this number and most phones won’t display this many digits. The sound quality seems very good and they connect quickly.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:23:49 +0000

And I forgot to mention, thanks for the tip on Goiax! I’ll give it try. Also, I have had reasonable success with Voipbuster for free outgoing via iax. It doesn’t always connect and sound quality can vary, but it is free to the US48. You have to pony up a minimum deposit in case you use them for international to get the full service in the US48 (calls are limited, otherwise).

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 05:16:58 +0000

If you check out the forums there is a lot of negative about Broadvoice for converting residential accounts to business accounts without informing the customers in advance. They are doing so because, under the Terms of Service (TOS), they have determined, at Broadvoices sole discretion, that the usage pattern of these customers is not consistent with residential usage. The posters disagree strongly with Broadvoices determinations and mention that customer support refuses to consider pertinent facts that prove Broadvoices position is incorrect (numbers called are often to one or two relatives or friends; not to numerous locations, etc.) or to elevate their compaints to a level that has authority to reconsider their deermination. The charges Broadvoice is hitting these customers with is often in the 100’s of dollars. For inbound you are correct as BV’v BYOD-Lite is low. Just be carefull and read the TOS; BV has a reputation for being very aggressive in its enforcement of the Terms of Service. Also, they can, at Broadvoices discretion, charge $100 per diem against your charge card for the days that they determine you are in violation plus change your calling plan to a higher cost plan retroactive to the day of the alleged violation.

By: Nick Kothari

Nick Kothari — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:49:04 +0000

Goiax is great. I can’t imagine this lasting too long, but have to love it while it’s there. Can’t spoof caller id on this Iax provider, but again, can’t have everything. I can’t wait for the next article, as my Dialpad account needs a bit of Nerd Vittles Magic. Thanks for all the great articles!

[WM: Appreciate your note. Dialpad soup-to-nuts is coming this Friday with a little luck at this end.]

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:59:03 +0000

Maybe I'm dim, but is there any way to get an internal call with this? [WM: No, you're not dim. And, no, you can't receive calls with this service. It's just free outgoing calls in the U.S. The least expensive free incoming service with a local phone number of your choice is BroadVoice's BYOD-Lite plan at $5.95 a month.]