[Merged] freephoneline.ca - Free Local Soft Phone Line for lifetime VOIP

[cheebster]

Ok ! Are you using any kind of QoS settings ? It works fine on my side when i limit the grabit bandwidth allocation.

Another issue i'm having is that the party i'm calling is having his own voice echo'ed, quite often. I'm wondering if a setting in the pap2t or the spa942 that's causing this. Maybe i'll buy a Snom or some other brand of voip hardware to test if it works better...

Thanks.

funny you mention that. i have a few accounts with voip.ms and also use them with a pap2t connected to a linksys running tomato. i use grabit quite often, but have never noticed issues with voice quality... i probably havent had grabit using my full bandwidth while trying to make a call. gonna try it out and see how the voice quality goes

[bigphil26]

This $50 is a one time cost (which is about two months worth of a Rogers or Bell landline service). I've had the service since February and am quite happy with it. Now, I even have features such as caller id which I never subscribed to when I was with Bell. Also, I get less telemarketing calls (maybe even none) , because my phoneline now starts with 647, which is a plus.

Anyone know if I can actually be downloading fairly huge amount of data (TV programmings) and still have decent voice quality? It becomes kinda choppy and I have to close the downloading applications. I have the Tomato firmware on my WRT54GL router.

I have rogers extreme internet and don't have any voice issues while downloading torrents, when rogers claimed they increased there DL speed I switched to express and had nothing but problems even just surfing the net would give me choppy voice quality so I switched back to extreme and everything is good again.

[joey003]

Ok ! Are you using any kind of QoS settings ? It works fine on my side when i limit the grabit bandwidth allocation.

Another issue i'm having is that the party i'm calling is having his own voice echo'ed, quite often. I'm wondering if a setting in the pap2t or the spa942 that's causing this. Maybe i'll buy a Snom or some other brand of voip hardware to test if it works better...

Thanks.

i havent checked or changed any QoS settings on the router.. gonna try today when i have a few minutes. hey, within grabit itself, you are able to limit the bandwidth or max speed for downloads?

i've never run into issues with echoing at all.. i just have default settings right now on tomato and the pap2t. i've used pap2t in a number of places for people and havent had any issues.

[spider]

I currently have Bell for Highspeed and Bell for home phone...if i signed up for this will Bell charge me extra for dryloop ?

[jimgiggles]

I currently have Bell for Highspeed and Bell for home phone...if i signed up for this will Bell charge me extra for dryloop ?

You already have bell service to your home. Only time you need a dryloop is when you don't have any services with bell, and want dsl service from another provider. Its the only reason i won't go with tekksavvy. $8 for dryloop service cools down just about any deal.

[imran909]

For those who have piad the $50, is there a lot of static noise in the line? All the people that I called from my pc complained about that. Will the call quality of pc be different from when you use your ATA phone?

None, I am using this service for few days with the $50 configuration, pretty impressive so far. Try to look through the forum from the website http://forum.freephoneline.ca/ and try to find the sweet spot for your specific VOIP adapter with a little bit of tweaking, you should be fine.

[biosfix]

I wonder if I pay $50, and get config file, (still don't know what actually is it), can I config any linksys SIP devices?

[ItemFinder]

You can configure any (unlocked) SIP device with the settings you get.

[hellomike888]

They charge for LD to Canadian cities where they don't offer the free voip service (they only offer it in select cities) as well as charging for LD to the US and overseas. It's owned by the same parent as 295.ca internet which has been around since the '90s so they have experience on now to operate a low cost service and stay in business. I have it and use the softphone app and it's been fine for me.

and if u have any ideas about the company itself and how they operate, u wouldnt be saying that

[PaulieG]

I have no problems with local calls, but long distance calls have quality problems more often than not. Specifically, even though the other side can hear me fine, their voice comes in choppy and unintelligible. So much so, that I have to redial, sometimes several times until I get a good connection. I can tell whether the connection is ok by the sound of the ringing tone, even before the other party picks up. This is very annoying. To be fair, I have not had time to dig around in my router's QOS settings, since I first set it up a few months ago. However, I find it unlikely that this is what the problem is seeing as local calls are just fine.

[qualsdad]

I've searched through many forums including the ones on dslreports.com

More people have said they were satified than not, but it might have to do with hardware or qos settings.

I picked up a Seedtouch 780wl for $20 and if all is well I'll stack my modems, say bye to Bell, put the savings towards a second dsl line with mlppp and end up with 10 mbps download speed, 400GB download limit and my existing phones plugged into the router.

Teksavvy good...Bell and Rogers bad!

[Azenha]

I've searched through many forums including the ones on dslreports.com

More people have said they were satified than not, but it might have to do with hardware or qos settings.
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Absolutely... with any VOIP you have to have a clean data line. Lost packets means voice breakup or voice delays since the data either gets lost or has to be resent.

I've been using VOIP for about five years now and when I first got on I had a lot of problems. And the providers weren't much help. The VOIP company blamed my ISP, and my ISP blamed the VOIP company. After trying many different possible solutions I eventually replaced my cable line with RG6 cable (satellite quality) and wow... everything worked great. I'm on cable internet and it was the lousy cable line that gave me lousy voice quality.

I now have three VOIP lines running at home with 3Web as my ISP and they all work great. In fact, one of the Freephone VOIP lines runs off my Netgear 104 Powerline adapter and I get Bell landline quality. The main internet line is in the basement and the Powerline signal transmits between three floors to my 3rd floor office with no problems at all.

For those that need to test their ISP line try:
http://speedtest.net/

A clean line (no lost packets) equals a good VOIP experience. After all, G711u uses approximately 128kb/s of bandwidth and G729a uses approximately 16kb/s. So technically, you can VOIP successfully using a telephone modem connection if you set your adapter to G729a - which is what Freephoneline recommends you use.

[imran909]

I have no problems with local calls, but long distance calls have quality problems more often than not. Specifically, even though the other side can hear me fine, their voice comes in choppy and unintelligible. So much so, that I have to redial, sometimes several times until I get a good connection. I can tell whether the connection is ok by the sound of the ringing tone, even before the other party picks up. This is very annoying. To be fair, I have not had time to dig around in my router's QOS settings, since I first set it up a few months ago. However, I find it unlikely that this is what the problem is seeing as local calls are just fine.

I had the same issue with G729a, try using G711u setting if you have a good broadband connection. Every thing works great with G711u. However, you will need to configure your QoS on G711u otherwise it will attempt to use too much of your bandwidth and if you are downloading other stuff simultaneously then you can potentially run into troubble if no preference is given to VOIP.

[imran909]

You already have bell service to your home. Only time you need a dryloop is when you don't have any services with bell, and want dsl service from another provider. Its the only reason i won't go with tekksavvy. $8 for dryloop service cools down just about any deal.

Well it depends, for me it is a steal. I was paying bell basic + caller ID + voice mail + call waiting and the monthly bill was running into $ 45. So with the free voip and even paying the $ 8 dry loop fees, I am saving quite a bit and with the added advantage of calling long distance to many Canadian Cities and that I no longer have to pay the suckers $50 every time I move and now can keep my number any where I go!

[imran909]

I wonder if I pay $50, and get config file, (still don't know what actually is it), can I config any linksys SIP devices?

Technically, thats the main idea. For me the Cisco (Linksys) PAP2T-NA worked great