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  1. Re:Spam him back by MukiMuki · · Score: 5, Informative · on Stopping Overseas Fax Spam?

    A couple of karma-whoring things...

    Number 1 : Free World Dialup

    Number 2 : Why are you still using a fax machine? Get a cheap computer up on some fax software and you can auto-filter your faxes. Not to mention the savings you'll get from not using any toner. Then just lazer print anything worth keeping.

  2. Re:SIPphone by Ronald+Dumsfeld · · Score: 1 · on FCC Rules On Pulver Free World Dialup
    i got a free SIPphone software with my LindowsOS, you have to know someone who his also connected to the SIP network for this to work.. So its useless for me anyway..
    As has been pointed out, there are pay services where you can connect to the POTS network and make calls. Obviously, these services include provision of a "POTS number" so anyone can dial you. The obvious one is Vonage.

    Now, what a little digging into FWD will uncover are some free ways to link yourself into the POTS network. No, you can't make outbound calls to non-0800 numbers, but you can set yourself up to receive calls from non-VoIP callers. Firstly, there are lists of access numbers that people can call and then dial your FWD number. Secondly, there are at least a couple of places where you can get a POTS number that will reach your FWD number. One gives a number in Washington State, the other gives an 0345 UK number. If you're really interested in finding that, read the FWD mailing list archive, I don't think slashdotting those services would be wise.

    Admittedly, this won't stop VoIP being useless to you if calling these numbers costs your friends the same or more than calling your land line or cell, but if you have friends overseas who you can convince to sign up then there's a point to it.

    Eventually VoIP will reach a critical mass, the point you miss here is that the FCC have decided to keep out of it and thus make it reaching that critical mass more likely.
  3. Re:VoIP by Ronald+Dumsfeld · · Score: 2 · on FCC To Hold First VoIP Hearings; Rules in 2004

    >Is VoIP the same thing as these FREE (ad supported) PC-to-phone services which existed before the tech bubble burst?

    I never encountered ad supported PC-to phone services but recall absolutely dreadful pay services with echoes and long delays. Thankfully things have moved on a long way from there. VoIP is like talking on a cellphone in terms of quality and delay. With something like Free World Dialup you can talk, Geek to Geek, across the Internet for free, and there are underlying standards such as an agreed upon international prefix to access VoIP.

    If you browse the FWD mailing list you'll discover other goodies like POTS->FWD gateways down a large chunk of the East Coast of the US. There's also gateways in other countries, Washington State numbers that reach your FWD line etc. etc.

    Then there's the Linux-based PBX, Asterisk.


    Welcome to the maze of twistly little voiceprompts that are all subtly different.

  4. How is this different from FWD by TNLNYC · · Score: 1 · on Michael Robertson Unveils SIPphone

    Free World Dialup has offered the same service for several years, but for free. Maybe it's just me but it looks like the service is just an extension of that model. Or am I missing something?

  5. http://www.freeworldialup.com/ by Lionel+Hutts · · Score: 2, Informative · on Building a Community VoIP Directory Server?

    Does Pulver's Free World Dialup not do what you want?