Comments on: VoipDiscount.com: Free Asterisk Calling Returns to the VoIP Wild West

By: James

James — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:10:35 +0000

No one show try this it is trap for getting credentials from voipdiscount

By: Abhishek Kumar Srivastava

Abhishek Kumar Srivastava — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:31:57 +0000

Nice One! Exactly what I was looking for..

By: vipin sahu

vipin sahu — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:04:31 +0000

For pc to mobile configuration using asterisk refer this tutorial
http://vipinkrsahu.blogspot.com/search/label/Asterisk

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:33:55 +0000

RE: VoipDiscount does not seem to pass along outgoing caller ID information.

For VOIPstunt etc… – you will need to download their client application and follow the instructions in the settings tab to verify your phone number.
Once you have done this, leave the outgoing caller id in freepbx blank but add/change the fromuser= to be your validated caller id in 0044 form. Leaving authuser= to be your account login. I have this working from the UK with my sipgate DID and BT POTS number.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:10:21 +0000

Hello to all of you .. my name is chris and i am from greece,I just instaled a wireless router dray tek vigor 2700 series with voip over ip so i can youse my home telephone to make phone calls with the voip discount eaven if my pc is closed.. but my problem is that when i make the calls pepole hear me very low and braking up not clear voice and not loud but i can hear them just fine if any body can help please e mail me at chrismagic@mail.gr thank you a lot, and happy new year to all of you..

By: piglet

piglet — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:18:26 +0000

It seems that it isn’t possible to prevent VoipDiscount from starting automatically. There is no option in the Settings to opt against automatic startup, and even when you disable it using Windows Defender, next time you use the program it will be registered for startup again. I regard this is inacceptable practice and I will stop using it as soon as my credit is used up.

By: Nailia

Nailia — Thu, 24 May 2007 09:55:29 +0000

Hello! Can someone help me. I have been using VoipDiscount service for one year, but now I have problems making calls. When I make a call, the receiver does not hear me. Does anyone know how to solve this problem. I really want to use their servise. Thank you. Best wishes, Nailia.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:03:20 +0000

Hey, a possible project for your prodigious programmers- I’ve been trying to do an automatic emergency call for the health department where I work. A call to an extension number would initiate an automatic 911 call and play a message when answered. I got asterisk to do the dialout and play a message just with the dialplan, but the message was very garbled,I think because the inintiating phone was bridged to the 911 call. I plan to put the emergency button on a phone’s programmable buttons,to call that extension. A program to move a phone message to asterisk’s outbox folder would be much slicker.

By: m.mamdoh.obaji

m.mamdoh.obaji — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:50:43 +0000

i think you make people very happy some time one call can save one some body life.thank you for making people talking free its very important what you dowing.thanks frome Dr.obaji

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:16:01 +0000

I have been using voxbone IN bound with DID all you can eat for 8 per month 2 channels (business) for a Canadian DID work great no jitter or lag so far I have been use voip discount for a while now too stumbled on it quite a while ago and signed up for it some time after that seems to work for the amount of calling I do however there is some lag.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:25:11 +0000

Running Trixbox 1.2.3 FreePBX 2.1.3 and have problems with callback.
Selecting "2″ in VM, system verifyes the call back number, but never dials out and hangs up my line in a few second.
Any one has or had the same problem?

[WM: Read the CLI output and see where the call is failing. Then post the problem on the TrixBox forums if you need assistance.]

By: ward

ward — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:14:30 +0000

Gotcha reminder: ‘Free’ calls now are limited to 300 minutes during any consecutive 7-day period. That’s less than 45 free minutes a day for you math wizards. After that, calls to the free destinations are a penny a minute. And remember, you have to invest another $15 every three months to keep your ‘free’ account active. That makes the so-called free minutes just under a half cent each assuming you don’t use your $15 contribution to call other locations during each three month period. And, no, free minutes do not roll over to the next 7 day period.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:15:15 +0000

They dropped Brazil from their list of free phone calls. Also, I’ve noticed that the 300 minutes seems to be per destination.

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 28 May 2006 14:00:17 +0000

Thanks for this explanation! Actually you are telling there are four programs. But there are 10 all of the same company. Betamax in Germany.
Here you see the programs and the tarifs with links to their websites; http://www.voipproducts.eu

By: Randy Powell

Randy Powell — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:26:15 +0000

VoipDiscount / VoipCheap no longer have the link for payment with Credit card for me 🙁 Also, I had a client calling India Mobile and they did 4 calls that I didn’t connect that would run concurrent that got billed 1 hour each for. I hope they work it out – was pretty good quality cheap carrier for me till I can do enough volume to qualify for larger carrier status.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:36:51 +0000

Updates on the voipdiscount freebie.. New usage policy:

"Max 300 minutes per week of free calls, measured over the last 7 days. Unused free minutes cannot be taken to the following week(s).
If limit is exceeded, a minimal rate of 1ct/min will be charged (as shown in the VoipDiscount software)."

The price of the calls that are charged after the free time is up is very cheap, for Colombia (South America) it’s 1 eurocent a min (US$0.012c/min) which still beats anything out there for Colombia.

By: John

John — Sun, 07 May 2006 12:48:06 +0000

OK, I have been using their services for months and suddenly, the payment link disappeared and I cant make new payments…sent several emails and post on forums but no replies. Asked couple of friends and realised that some folks can still make payments and others cant…does any one know what is wrong?

Tried registering a new ID on a new service http://www.voipcheap.com but unfortunately, I cant…does anyone know how to solve this problem, I really want to buy credits and use their service for calling paid destinations?

thnx

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 May 2006 16:34:47 +0000

Enjoyed the free ride for 12hrs:31min:30sec since 4/26/06. Now I can’t make any free phone calls although their website now states: "* Max 20hrs per month of free calls. Unused free minutes cannot be taken to the following month(s)." I’ve written to them to no avail. Calls that have a fee go through with no problem.

I started using A@H2.8 with your A@H2.7 instructions (used to have an asterisk source based installation) and got it working just fine. Following your A@H2.8 instructions on a working 2.8 requires some tweaking (creating/recreating db tables) and found that some of the Tools (phpmyadmin, asterisk info) went missing in the FreePBX interface.

Thanks for the GREAT documentation and tips.

By: NerdBob

NerdBob — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:25:18 +0000

The funny thing is, I posted a long comment a while back, which I believe WM was right in not allowing to appear because of its length but had the same issue. Had it been trimmed and skimmed and posted, it would have given the same message :) There is something wrong with VoIPDiscount & SIPDiscount. Wasted about 24 bucks with these, and now trying to get it back somehow, have written to the address on the invoice. Cant call using their client, Cant call using a Hard Phone, Cant call using an asterisk trunk, no matter what I tried. A confirmation further would be nice. [WM: All I can tell you is "mine works" with the settings shown in the article. We really can't debug problems in the blog format. If you're still having problems, post something on Voxilla, and we (and others) will have a look.]

By: Mohidin

Mohidin — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:27:40 +0000

hi guys! great job you are doing! Does anyone know how i can use my Cisco ATA186 with any of the Finerea links? They give the settings there but tried with no success. Please help. Thnx

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:22:09 +0000

Can someone help with context for auto callback? I can’t get it to work as my trunk needs a "1″ in front of the number but my outbound dial plan doesn’t. Is there a solution?

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:57:02 +0000

Ward - Superlative tutorials and great ideas! Thanks Charles - To get your voip-in number working check out this thread . These settings can be adapted for all the finarea family - sipdiscount, voipstunt, internetcalls, voipbuster, voipdiscount etc

By: charles osstyn

charles osstyn — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:23:16 +0000

Regsitering and using the Firefly softphone or even X-lite as a client is possible as well IAX peering for voipbuster works for me too.

Been using these all for over a year, I paid the samll fees all to get the DDI and caps removed. Not expenisve!!

Good luck and have fun ….
Charlie

By: charles osstyn

charles osstyn — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:19:20 +0000

The callerid is the ddi you can obtain this is what my users see as callerid when using the voipstunt ones … we need to do the incoming bit for that now an example should be provided on sipdiscount.com as this is the only sip only no client software for those accounts offered form Finanarea. Sorry for some of the typos.

Charlie