Free SIP/IAX Trial Account for All Trixbox Users

Now that is what I am talking about.

Time for you folks to test a real provider

I see that CVP module is missing on current Freepbx so here you go

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.pbx4pros.com/files/freepbx/modules/voicepulse.tar.gz
cd /var/www/html/admin/modules/
tar -zxvf /usr/src/voicepulse.tar.gz

It is a module for freepbx which uses the API from Connect.voicepulse.com
By login intot he CVP portal and click the API link you see the API code highlight it all and paste it into the box in the module and BAM all is setup for you.

Yes, I would like to know this information as well. I have had no problems with Telasip but I just don't like using SIP and they is what they want me to use. I just have NAT issues with my TrixBox and Smoothwall. I may want to look and see how voicepulse works. Now if I could port my telasip number to them!!!

Maybe the person that wrote the original advertisement could stop back in and answer the questions. $1.11 for 58 minutes. If that is for NANPA call it is about quadruple the price in the ad, 200-400 minutes for $2.00.

It makes sense. Although it is not to the point. I am not sure (although again off topic) that the analysis is valid much beyond your individual situation. That kind of conclusion to be valid would require specific call mix, time of day, peak time elements, to name a few, to be put into the mix to draw a useful comparison. Some small and SOHO businesses or home users could gain advantages and features that might run the PSTN or traditional cost way beyond the equivalent VOIP or mixed configuration.

This thread was borderline spam from the outset. It is incumbent on the original poster to not hit and run but rather be responsible to as you say "Hang out" here if they are going to use the forum for promotion.

VoicePulse does not bill a flat per-minute rate as some of our competitors do. Instead, since we have many high volume customers and most of those use some form of least cost routing, VoicePulse offers tiered rates.

For example, if you are a user with 10,000 minutes a month, you have three options:

Option A

Send all of those calls to Provider A that charges a flat per-minute rate of 1.5¢/minute.

Option B

Send all of those calls to VoicePulse, some of which will end up costing as low as 0.5¢/min or up to 1.9¢/min, but end up averaging around 1¢ for normal calling patterns.

Option C

Send only calls that are less than 1.5¢ through VoicePulse and send the rest through Provider A at 1.5¢ flat. We make it easy for our customers to implement this kind of solution in Asterisk (but not Trixbox... yet!) with our FlexRate macro.

As you can see, comparing our pricing to another provider is not quite apples-to-apples, but it can provide a significant savings to *some* users. To get this kind of pricing from a carrier usually requires a volume commitment, which is not the case with VoicePulse. We do offer a "Calculate Your Savings" page that lets you paste up to 1,000 of your latest calls to see how much it would have cost you with VoicePulse.

We hope this trial will give Trixbox users a chance to experience our sign up process, customer service response times and call quality without any upfront cost. Also, as Trixbox is a quickly evolving product, hopefully our trials will allow the community to continue testing and providing feedback to the developers -- resulting in a better product for everyone.

VoicePulse Connect for Asterisk
http://connect.voicepulse.com/
contact-at-voicepulse-dot-com
+1-732-339-5100 M-F 9am-7pm ET

OK
I guess some of you do not know that Voicepulse is active here.
They released some phone provisoning tools
Notice the ad to left, I would assume they pay for that, which in turn may help for the power to keep this forum up, it does cost money to produce FREE software and provide a way for the users of said freeware to get some support.

They are not some troll hanging out spamming.

Once more someone is posting about some user account, not the same thing by any means.

I am just saying "Keep the Copper" add the VOIP to enchance the Copper.

Just as the Voicepulse response has laid out, I do my own LCR by using my all-I can-eat PSTN for all the outbound calls I can, when a second or third inbound / outbound line is needed my VOIP comes into play.

By using CWob / CWoNA, I get it all and I do not sweat it when the INET goes down.

Tom,
I'm giving teliax it a try.
Thanks for the tip.

Here's a tip back:
I'm getting my numbers from didww.com and registering them to my asterisk box.
I think didx.net is cheaper and you can select your actual final numbers, but they don't seem to sell less than 25 numbers at a time. I just needed 2 for now.

Also, I'm getting a WIP330 wifi phone from Linksys ($319) which by the way it's taking a while for them to ship it. I think this is the beginning of the end for cell phone technology... Or at least they will stop ripping off customers and lower their rates to compete with (almost free) WiFi VoIP technology. Who knows... Someone might be biting the dust soon...

I've read that a lot of people is having trouble with this phone, but if I can get it to work at my house and at my office (and maybe in a few hotspots) for 3 months, it pays for itself... I've had enough of verizon and cingular for a lifetime; not to mention the value of being (somewhat) ahead in the VoIP learning curve...

Brian

In my account with DIDWW, I have my DID's URI set up as SIP/MY_PHONE_NUMBER@MY_ASTERISK_BOX_IP_OR_DOMAIN.
e.g. SIP/19541234567@mydomain.com

Then in my asterisk server at home, I have in my sip.conf file the following section:

[19541234567] ; this would be my phone number at DIDWW
host=204.11.194.34 ; this is DIDWW server IP address in the US
dtmfmode=rfc2833
dtmf=rfc2833
type=user
context=from-didww ; this is the context I want to catch the call
insecure=very ; anybody can call me
nat=never
allow=all
canreinvite=no
qualify=yes

also, in my extensions.conf file, I have the following:

[from-didww] ; this should match the extension above (sip.conf)
exten=> s,1,Dial(SIP/100) ; answers all incoming calls and transfers them to 100

NOTICE two things: 1st: I'm not an expert so, although this works for me, this may not be the best or most secure or most ______ way to do it... and 2nd, that to do this I modified the conf files myself... I gave up on TRIXBOX interface because to really understand (or think you understand) what is really happening behind the scenes (and maybe learn something), you actually need to give up on the EASY and bring on the TOUGH... bring it on!

Also, I found this book (free for those who find it) and this site in general, useful: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11

Good luck.

bthorne

Hello Voice Pulse,

Is it that i cannot use the account beside U.S ?

I am in the middle east and during the registration it is asking for details of a US based card.

R
Royd

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Shall try that tomorrow Im very late to get home now :(

Royd

I attempted to sign up for the voicepulse trial and I was emailed back a pdf form and requested to fill out the form and fax it back. Among other things it asked for a copy of my driver's license. I consider ID requests such as this that have become so common in recent years to be an outrageous and unacceptable invasion of privacy. I say to voicepulse and any other company that makes such demands IF YOU WANT MY BUSINESS THEN RESPECT MY PRIVACY. We don't live in Nazi Germany or the old Soviet Union where one has to “show their papers” for all variety of every day business. This is a possible violation of your credit card merchant agreement see par 9.11.2:

http://consumerist.com/consumer/csr/mega-update-requiring-minimum...

I got in an argument with a Radio Shack manager over this issue, see this thread

http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=6120.0

No one can demand to see a driver's license except a police officer who pulls someone over for a traffic violation!!

wolf,

We do in fact respect the privacy of our users and do not require this additional piece of information from any customers with a US billing address. The form does specify (FOR NON-U.S. CREDIT CARD USERS ONLY) on the page you're referring to, but we will make some changes to ensure future customers are not confused by the form.

We have no intention of relaxing the requirement for overseas customers as the potential for fraud is too high.

Hopefully this answers your concerns regarding privacy and if you'd like to continue verifying your account, we'd be happy to have you as our customer.

What i don't understand is to add funds to the account, a paypal account is required - paypal has done all the verification of our payment accounts - so why do I need to send you a copy of my credit card and/or drivers license?

your right - I stand corrected - merged two of you guys together :)