setting up a VOIP phone

[newlyretired]

I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone (using a 4G router). I have signed up with Sipgate, and I would appreciate any recommendations on which ATA adaptorto buy?

Also I have installed the Zoiper app on my iPhone and set up the connection to my Sipgate account - but so far I am unable to receive VOIP calls using the app - any suggestions as to what might be going wrong?

newlyretired

[PhaseThree]

I use a Grandstream adapter to a set of DECT phones
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-GS ... B01JH7MYKA

Sipgate have setup guides for these adapters :-
https://basichelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-g ... T-Adapters

Been working well for that last couple of years with no issues.

[Laughton]

I too have the Grandstream adaptor witha DECT phone - works well.

[AF62]

I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone

Why bother doing that and not just use a mobile phone (with WiFi calling if reception is poor)?

[UncleEbenezer]

I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone (using a 4G router). I have signed up with Sipgate, and I would appreciate any recommendations on which ATA adaptorto buy?

Also I have installed the Zoiper app on my iPhone and set up the connection to my Sipgate account - but so far I am unable to receive VOIP calls using the app - any suggestions as to what might be going wrong?

newlyretired

Zoiper does the job if (and only if) you're OK with it playing mind games to try and get you to upgrade to a paid version. One of those mind games it played on me was a spell of frequently losing its registration (so it would fail to take incoming calls) and making no attempt to reconnect. That meant frequently restarting it (zoiper) myself.

No idea if it's doing something like that to you. It will display a little tick or cross - top left of my android screen - to indicate whether it's successfully registered. It'll also log a message. Check those if you haven't already.

[AF62]

I'm planning to replace my landline phone with a VOIP phone

Why bother doing that and not just use a mobile phone (with WiFi calling if reception is poor)?

Because if you have an internet connection you don't need a mobile phone if you use VOIP with your internet router. Perhaps?

And who doesn't have a mobile phone?

[AF62]

Because if you have an internet connection you don't need a mobile phone if you use VOIP with your internet router. Perhaps?

And who doesn't have a mobile phone?

There's three people in my close family who don't. Beyond that, I have no idea.

RVF

Yet I know of nobody that doesn’t have one, including friends and relatives in their 90’s.

[Infrasonic]

One advantage of a SiP/VoIP solution is it stops your real numbers from being on too many databases, with the issues around privacy/leaks, ID theft et al.

I've been looking into that, virtual SMS numbers, virtual CC numbers for a while now.

[AF62]

There's three people in my close family who don't. Beyond that, I have no idea.

RVF

Yet I know of nobody that doesn’t have one, including friends and relatives in their 90’s.

So, on a sample of two of us that's 1.5 people each.

RVF

Or 0.75 phones per person.

[AF62]

I've been looking into that, virtual SMS numbers, virtual CC numbers for a while now.

One of the credit card companies I used a few years ago, I seem to recall Cahoot, used to offer virtual credit card numbers for online transactions. You generated an individual card number and could set a maximum card limit as the value of the transaction. It worked, sort of. The issue was there was more times it didn't than it did; retailers who put through a test £0.01p authentication and so used up the card number, refunds were a pain, etc.

[Redmires]

I use a Grandstream adapter to a set of DECT phones
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grandstream-GS ... B01JH7MYKA

Sipgate have setup guides for these adapters :-
https://basichelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-g ... T-Adapters

Been working well for that last couple of years with no issues.

A big thanks for the advice. We live in a rural area with 2Mg broadband with no chance of fibre. Recently, we've signed up for a 20Mg connection via microwave link from a rural comms company for the same price as the landline + broadband package. Setting up the Grandstream was easy and the phone is working fine. I'm still in the process of porting the existing number which Openreach managed to screw up by having the wrong post code - no fault of Sipgate, who have been very helpful.

And on another posting ...

Why bother doing that and not just use a mobile phone (with WiFi calling if reception is poor)?

Because we have a Panasonic DECT phone with 4 handsets around the house. And because I don't want to carry a mobile phone everywhere I go