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Old March 16th, 2006, 02:05 PM
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I live in Toronto, Canada and I was able to configure my SPA-2100 with VBuzzer and its working fine.

My brother lives in Oman and he has it SPA-2100 configured with a Canadian VOIP provider and it suddley stoped working. Other VOIP services such as IConnect also stoped working. Only Skype is currently working in Oman.
He downloaded the VBuzzer softphone and it not working in Oman. He then configured SPA-2100 ( phone Line 2) with VBuzzer and its not working.


Guys do you know of any workaround to make VBuzzer work in Oman.
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Old March 30th, 2006, 03:22 PM
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I live in Toronto, Canada and I was able to configure my SPA-2100 with VBuzzer and its working fine.

My brother lives in Oman and he has it SPA-2100 configured with a Canadian VOIP provider and it suddley stoped working. Other VOIP services such as IConnect also stoped working. Only Skype is currently working in Oman.
He downloaded the VBuzzer softphone and it not working in Oman. He then configured SPA-2100 ( phone Line 2) with VBuzzer and its not working.


Guys do you know of any workaround to make VBuzzer work in Oman.
try to configure vbuzzer on port 80 (spa-2100)or so
look their website forum , The configuration's for several devices given in Support Forum of vbuzzer
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Old April 29th, 2006, 06:24 PM
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I am trying to use sunrocket from asia but unable to do it i think some problem with ISP or configuration, anyone like to help me out here?
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If your ISP is blocking the standard VoIP ports, the only work arounds I know of are:

1) Something like Skype will often work, as Skype "port hops" to hide that it's a VoIP application. Skype does have several other "down sides", but it is better able to get around "port restrictions" than most of the other services.

2) If you have access to a VPN "Virtual Private Network" server in an "unrestricted" area, you can VPN (assuming your ISP doesn't block VPN) to that server, and do your VoIP from their internet (via the VPN). Since VPNs are encrypted, it will just look (to your ISP) as if you are doing some encrypted traffic remotely.

3) If you have a friend with an IP-PBX (in an area that doesn't restrict ports), you can ask your friend to let you use their PBX via non-standard VoIP ports. But as soon as the ISP catches wind of this (and it can easily show up in their "traffic logs"), they can take action to shut this arrangement down.

4) Or, you could give up using the ISP totally, and go with some other option for "cheap calling". For example, you can use the "Web Call" feature of http://www.voxalot.com to connect two VoIP calls togeather WITHOUT using any VoIP equipment on your end. If you were willing to pay VoIP rates to call your local phone, you could then use "Web Call" to call your phone and also the VoIP location of your choice. Voila, VoIP rates using your normal phone. Of course, the "down side" is that you will be paying (VoIP rates) to call your phone, in addition to whatever you are paying (if anything) for the number you are trying to reach. And your ISP could always block access to the VoXaLot web site (but you could use an http proxy to get around that block).

NOTE: Because of the slightly strange way that VBuzzer does things, VBuzzer is currently one of the few BYOD providers that will NOT work with VoXaLot's "Web Call".
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if your ISP is blocking ports you should really look into an alternative means of internet.
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In many parts of the world there is only one ISP and it is owned by the government. These ISPs often impose technical restrictions that serve the desires of the government, although we may believe that they are not in the best interest of the consumer. I would imagine that "alternative means of internet" are not available to this fellow.
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In Costa Rica the land lines, cel phones and ISP and elctricity are all controlled by the same govt. agency. They blocked people from using call back services in the past. They seem to be blocking VOIP (using a soft phone on a lap top) now.

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Old June 16th, 2006, 07:42 AM
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Mike. Skype slides through more blocks than not. Skype has a lot of critics but might be helpful in this situation. PM me for other solutions.
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