[solarflare]

In the my.phonegnome.com I've set up sip1.sipdiscount.com for placing the international calls (read: and also domestic calls in practise). What I'd like to have is a receive only capability towards the PSTN line. The telemarketing screening option is fabulous for the incoming part, but I don't phone outbound calls towards the PSTN for real nowadays anymore.

Instead, what would be great to assign FWD as a local default. So that when everything else fails, it wouldn't try PSTN at all, but either FWD or sipbroker instead. Thought I was doing something like that when set up the fwd.pulver.com for placing the domestic calls, but it seems it's not quite it.

The PSTN line receive only capability from my PhoneGnome would be both a convenience and also a security measure. And a very welcome one. (Am I permitted to attach my PhoneGnome unit into my fwd sip ata instead of the PSTN line? That would be a good option too.)

[PhoneGnome]

I'm not understanding your objective.

You can enable 'LD Call Blocking' and 'Intl Call Blocking' on your PhoneGnome, so that no LD and/or Intl calls will be sent to your PSTN line (local calls and 911 etc. will still use your landline).

It doesn't make sense to me to send calls as a fall back to FWD. FWD cannot accept a NANP number.

You SHOULD NOT disconnect your landline, because if you do so, you lose connectivity to emergency 911 services.

[asethi]

I would also like to know how can I configure my PhoneGnome for incoming SIP calls with my FWD account. I have been trying to use PhoneGnome to call other SIP devices, but have not been successful. Once this is set up in PhoneGnome other SIP users can call me using my FWD number. Then the question remains, if I can use my FWD account to call other SIP devices?

[PhoneGnome]

It doesn't work that way.

If FWD supports forwarding, you may be able to forward your FWD number to your PhoneGnome SIP address: sip:yournumber@sip.phonegnome.com

FWD users can dial your PhoneGnome from FWD as: **742yournumber

In this case, yournumber is your full e164 number (1 plus 10-digit number for US).

Why would calling your FWD account be any better than calling your direct PhoneGnome SIP address? The FWD number will just add an extra hop to the call (and risk even more interoperability problems). Your PhoneGnome is reachable via SIP. It's better to just have them call your PhoneGnome via SIP directly.

[DracoFelis]

Originally Posted by PhoneGnome

If FWD supports forwarding, you may be able to forward your FWD number to your PhoneGnome SIP address: sip:yournumber@sip.phonegnome.com

FWD does support forwarding, so the above should work (at least in theory). However:

1) That feature isn't advertised well, so many don't know that it is available.

2) Dispite the name, the FWD feature is really "multi-ring" (both send to the forwarding location, AND to any VoIP adapters registered with FWD, and the 1st one to "answer" gets the call), instead of just straight forwarding.

3) That feature is NOT on "by default", and instead has to be enabled manually, on the FWD web site itself (i.e. you have to log into your account, on the FWD web portal).

4) The web site makes it look like the change happens ASAP. However, it can take up to a day or two AFTER you make the change before the forwarding starts working. So be very patient...

5) The FWD forwarding feature is NOT perfect. For example, some inbound calls to your FWD number that DO NOT origionate with FWD (but instead come from one of the FWD "peers") will NOT forward, even when that feature is on. However, all calls starting from FWD members themselves should forward.