[rhollan]

I guess I just don't understand PhoneGnome. I know all about ATAs and have had Vonage for about three years, but what intriguied me about PhoneGnome was the abilty to forward a PSTN DID (free or otherwise) or sipBroker call, either directly, or via Voxalot, to sip:<number>@pgp10.televolution.net and have it ring the CELL phone used to register with PhoneGnome.

In other words, I expected PhoneGnome to terminate the inbound SIP call, from a supposedly-recognized peering partner (SipBroker or Voxalot) on the PSTN and call my cell phone.

What happens is that my cell phone does, indeed, ring, but (a) shows it's own number as CID, (b) when answered the originating phone has the call dropped, and (c) the cell phone still has the call open (but not echoing).

Am I doing something wrong, or do I just not understand that PhoneGnome supports ANY phone. It's WebToCall feature sure works with the cell phone, so I know it DOES setup calls to the one registered PSTN number.

Finally, is there a callthru service I can use to make outgoing calls? Ideally, I'd have a DID forwarded to my cell phone, and if I called it from that number I'd get a callthru dialtone. I tried myvoicepal.com, and it seamed to work but showed all inbound calls with my cell phone CID instead of that of the caller.

The ultimate goal, is to use a tmobile "myfaves" service to get unlimited minutes via VoIP by having all outbound calls routed through a DID->callthru and all (most) inbound calls forwarded to me from a single number (but with dthe originator's CID).

[PhoneGnome]

It sounds like all you need is the PhoneGnome box and optional MobileGnome service (part of the PowerSuite bundle for $24.99 per year - $2.0825 per month).

With this combination, you would simply add your home phone number (the phone number of the line attached to the PhoneGnome box) to your "MyFaves" and tell PhoneGnome MobileGnome your cell phone number. When you call your home phone (plugged into the PhoneGnome box LINE port) from your cell phone, you will get a dialtone and can make PhoneGnome calls just as though you were dialing them on your phone at home.

Users on VoIP can call your PhoneGnome box at sip:number@sip.phonegnome.com (see PhoneGnome SIP Tricks blog post for other SIP addresses available).

You can setup a free IPKALL DID to ring there too (see blog post)

Find-me/follow-me is also included in the PowerSuite bundle, so you could also have your cell phone ring with your home phone when people call your home number with this setup too.

[rhollan]

I don't HAVE a home phone. My cell phone is my only phone. So, SIP to PSTN termination via a PhoneGnome box would not help me.

I had expected since I was a registered PhoneGnome user and PhoneGnome accepts inbound SIP calls, such a call would be terminated via the PSTN to my cell phone.

WebToCall originates a call back to the caller and a PSTN termination to a called registered PhoneGnome user (or uses the caller's VSP to termiante the call to non-registerd Phonegnome destination), and bridges the calls. This means that PSTN termination TO registered PhoneGnome users is free. That combined with accepting inbound SIP calls, suggests that what I wanted to do should work. (And, indeed, my phone does ring, but when answered the call is driopped).

Does PhoneGnome require user to user calls to be web-initiated (presumably to get revenue from ad impressions or clickthrus on the web page provided for that purpose?).