@scottalanmiller I agree and upon reflection, using Vultr DDoS wouldn't work if they were attacked anyhow. Certainly it would be higher up the food chain. I have backups of everything and would have it up very quick somewhere else. I've actually been working on my Kazoo setup and can use it as failover.

Thanks @JaredBusch

Look towards Europe, where IPv6-only internet service is not uncommon.

https://teamhelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/207403895-sipgate-IP-Port-Ranges

https://www.dus.net/en/sip-default-settings

https://en.easybell.de/help/telephone-configuration/general/voip-expert-settings/

@Skyetel said in Phone Outages for February 19, 2021:

Skyetel’s President is addressing this personally, and all options are on the table. He’s, uh, pretty upset.

Hahhhaahahahahhah

@brandon220 said in Voip.ms Fax To Email:

@JaredBusch What I'm referring to is that I can take a physical piece of paper that I want to fax to a Xerox copier (in this instance). Instead of using the built-in fax machine function (no phone line attached) I can "email" the document to fax@voip.ms and in the subject line is the actual fax number. When I email from the copier, it comes out as a fax to the receiver. Not as an email. The receiver has no idea that it did not come from a conventional fax machine.

Yeah, this can definitely be done - but man, changing the subject line from a Xerox machine is generally a HUGE PITA - no normal user wants to do that ever.

The Atlanta2 server has been overtaken by snakeheads...

Not surprised they finally caved to this. It was needed, but I am sure it will be a huge support hit in the short term.

@JaredBusch said in Major outage at VoIP.ms today:

@scottalanmiller said in Major outage at VoIP.ms today:

Wait, I think we are talking on a voip.ms line right now, weird.

The problem is inbound termination from upstream of them. Everything else works.

Also not all inbound providers are affected.

Okay, that makes sense then.

Well I tried maintenance mode - out of service for 10 mins, then back on - no go.

I put the password back into the system - bam.. damn thing is registering again. 😞

@bnrstnr said in Weird Network Errors on SIP Trunks, FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller We still use the legacy wholesale thing. It probably wasn't as often as every 3 months, I'm sure I'm exaggerating a little.

Oh okay, that's what we are using, too.

@syko24 said in VoIP.ms issues in Chicago Datacenter:

Chicago Servers are having an issue today:

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Yes, affecting a customer of mine today.

Also had the same issue last week

Opened a ticket with Vultr. We'll see what they suggest.

@eddiejennings said in [SIP Pricing: How much are 11.338 milliseconds worth?]

Twilio: New Jersey at 12.853 ms average ping
Voip.ms: Atlanta (Atlanta2) at 1.515 ms average ping

Still trying to figure out where you are getting Twilio New Jersey? It seems like you are talking about the VULTR data centers to your office, and not the VULTR data centers to the pops.

Twilio is 35% cheaper on inbound and at least 15% cheaper on outbound. Your DID numbers and toll free costs are irrelevant. You need to dump the DID's you arent using, maybe keep 5 extra. If you can dump half thats $600 per year.

On actual costs see below. You are clearly saving money now and any increase in call volume will only add to those savings. You could save on toll free with a couple other people, but for ease of administration I would keep it all at one place.

And remember, those PRI DID's cost the CLEC anything. I had a guy trying to port 800 DID's to me once and we ended up issuing 150 of our DID's, forwarding theres for 6 months and dumping them. My DIDs cost me nothing, porting those 800 would have cost me $200 per month and he would have been paying $800 per month to us.

Twilio
Inbound: 5,649 at $0.0045 / minute ($25.42)
Outbound: 6,421 at $0.007 / minute ($44.95)

$70.73

VOIP.MS
Inbound: 4,363.9 at $0.009 / minute ($39.28)
Outbound: 5,376.3 at $0.01 / minute ($53.76)

$93.08

And imagine these numbers in multiples. $700 versus $930.

Everything I hear about Voip.ms is good, but Twilio's infrastructure is many times larger. They are already cheaper. I cant really speak to Voip.ms but have been meaning to give them a try.

@JaredBusch said in Hidden VoIP.ms restrictions:

@rustcohle said in Hidden VoIP.ms restrictions:

With flowroute I watch my rtp stream go to the terminating carrier they are sending me to.

Who cares about this. You buy service. You stop caring once you hand off to them. If they cannot provide quality and you have a solid hand off, you find a different provider.

I think the transparent approach is preferable. Also they are the only pure SIP CLEC I've seen to date.

Not sure if voip.ms has their own interconnects to local exchanges though, seems possible with all their proxy locations.

I watched a VUC episode when flowroute was on years back and I agreed with a lot the guy had to say about the state of Clecs and providers like bandwidth. I had just always assumed voip.ms was more of a hobbyist provider like pbxes.com

Then again, maybe pbxes.com is also used a lot in production....

@u2communications said in Setting up a SIP trunk in FreePBX 13:

If you find yourself still trying to get incoming calls working after several hours (like me), be advised that the default DID settings on voip.ms will not work. You merely have to set up a sub-account and make sure to set the authentication type as user/password authentication. Add your DID's to the sub-account and authenticate with the accountnumber_subaccount convention and use the password you created when setting up the sub-account.

I have never experienced an issue using the primary account on VoIP.ms. I highly recommend against it, always. But, I have never had a problem using it.

Also, welcome to ML.

@jaredbusch Nope... I think you're confusing this as you have an account and are logged in. @FATeknollogee pasted a page for new subscribers.

If you follow that link, then select the unlimited plan, you arrive at a new page
The new page allows one to select Local or Toll Free.
Choose Local and your state and proceed to the next page.
Choose your rate center and your page expands to show :
City Per Minute Rate Unlimited Rate
Athens $0.85/month + $0.009/minute $4.25/month + $0.00/minute View Available Numbers +

We're 4 pages in and it doesn't specify this inbound limit.

@DustinB3403 said in VoIP.ms inbound issues today:

@JaredBusch So just half of the US is reporting outages.

Wow someone at Level 3 is gonna get murdered over this.

I spot an RGE!

@thwr said in MC16: VoIP with Jared Busch Session:

@JaredBusch said in MC16: VoIP with Jared Busch Session:

@scottalanmiller said in MC16: VoIP with Jared Busch Session:

@JaredBusch said in MC16: VoIP with Jared Busch Session:

@thwr said in MC16: VoIP with Jared Busch Session:

@scottalanmiller said in MC16: VoIP with Jared Busch Session:

Myths of VoIP:

No 911 Is not secure Requires dedicated Internet Needs special network configuration have to buy all new hardware (or any new hardware!)

Seriously? ...

Serious that those are myths of VOIP? yup. I hear those all the time.

Same here.

@thwr Just happened last night in fact when i gave a presentation to a SpiceCorp.

Really sad. But there are so many myths (and half-knowledge) in and around IT...

Seems to be the majority more often than not 😞