Moving Landline to VoIP

phil-k

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I am looking at getting Full Fibre, I have a landline phone with 3 handsets so I can answer a call from wherever I am in the house, will this still work ok with VoIP and will the base station only be classed as one handset with VoIP supplier.
I am with Plusnet so I think I will have to get an adaptor for it to plug into the new router, but want to stay with them because I have never had a problem with them in all the years I have used them
I want to keep my present landline number, can anyone suggest a VoIP supplier that is cheap but reliable and do you just plug your phone into the router and it connects through them automatically or do you have to alter settings in the router
Thanks
 
As long as you buy a broadband package that includes a phone service then you unplug your DECT base from the wall and plug it into the router instead. As far as I know though, Plusnet do not offer a phone service any more.
 
I don't believe it works the same for every provider, but the principles are largely the same I believe, similar to what @Caged described.

Here with Community Fibre, we were given a Grandstream VOIP Box to connect a standard phone (including DECT) into that device, which then has its own cat5/ethernet cable to the router/modem where it connects to the voice service. No change to the phone devices were needed. Just plug and go. Although they did need to first setup that VOIP Box for us first by registering the MAC address on it to the service.
 
Thanks for the replies, I have found a provider (Voipfone) who do a basic 1 phone plan for £5 a month which seems to be the cheapest, does anyone use this company and can recommend them.
Coupled with a Grandstream HT-801 VoIP adapter should sort out my needs
Any comments, Thanks
 
To add, the second and third phones in your example are just slaves off the first primary phone and so do not require a licence or connection (as they don't now).
 
phil-k said:
Thanks for the replies, I have found a provider (Voipfone) who do a basic 1 phone plan for £5 a month which seems to be the cheapest, does anyone use this company and can recommend them.
Coupled with a Grandstream HT-801 VoIP adapter should sort out my needs
Any comments, Thanks
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I've used voipfone in the past for several numbers, and I've still got one number with them. Using a SNOM phone for that. No issues.
 
If keeping your existing number is important, ensure that your new provider can do that. When I was going down that path around a year ago, plusnet could not keep my existing landline number, dunno if they were an outlier, or indeed that situation has now changed.
 
tangey said:
If keeping your existing number is important, ensure that your new provider can do that. When I was going down that path around a year ago, plusnet could not keep my existing landline number, dunno if they were an outlier, or indeed that situation has now changed.
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I think it varies between companies. The service we got here from Community Fibre allowed us to keep our existing (near 30 year old) number, but we needed to notify them first ahead of time.
 
I moved my landline to Andrews and Arnold, no call package but I pay £1.49 a month for the line rental. I'm using a Grandstream devices for this.
 
I'm with Zen and they do this, just plug your base unit into your router and it works like normal.

We kept our number, £6 month.
 
I was just curious. For example, if I buy an ATA 1 port and already have a device registered as phone 1 mac address 00:11:22:33:44:55 etc, then spoof the address of said phone 1 to the ATA I just bought, would it work.
 
The reason I say this is when I worked for cable and they launched the surfboard, We had to register the device mac as well as the pc mac address, and to test stuff quick I would just spoof the mac address to my own laptop.
 
The MAC address of an ATA is just used to identify it to provisioning servers. If you bought another ATA of the same model and could spoof the MAC somehow then it would provision as well, but you've not really gained anything by doing so - you could have just registered another ATA with your VoIP provider and achieved the same result.
 
Any idea if they charge for adding an ATA in general ?
The Company is OneCom. Sister company of Vodafone I believe, I find it crazy that as a Buisness they have had to wait for said company to faff around supplying another IP phone Because it is Broken, I can't for the life of me see why this should be so complicated. And so I have advised them to get an ATA should they in future have any problems with IP phones ie, Just plug and play the old tat.

Now lets get back to the question I was asking about the ATA MAC spoofing.
My thoughts were, if they add/provision a new phone and send that via post that would mean the mac address of the old phone will be registered and I could just spoof the MAC on the ATA to make it look like the old broken phone. Are you saying it needs to be device specific or will it work.
 
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picnic said:
I moved my landline to Andrews and Arnold, no call package but I pay £1.49 a month for the line rental. I'm using a Grandstream devices for this.
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Agreed. I have the same and so far (over 18 months) no issues so far. I think it is best to keep Broadband and VOIP supplier seperate. If you are with one supplier, in future, you want to move, say broadband, you need to move both. it makes life simple.
 
Ad_Augendae said:
Now lets get back to the question I was asking about the ATA MAC spoofing.
My thoughts were, if they add/provision a new phone and send that via post that would mean the mac address of the old phone will be registered and I could just spoof the MAC on the ATA to make it look like the old broken phone. Are you saying it needs to be device specific or will it work.
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It absolutely needs to be device specific - if you provision a Yealink handset then you can't just point a Cisco ATA at the server (for a start it won't redirect off any provisioning server) and the service will have no idea how to serve up the config files that a Cisco device is asking for. I've also never seen an ATA where you can spoof the MAC address because it would serve no purpose.

If a deskphone is broken then the replacement process will be laid out in whatever the contract says, there's normally the option to use a softphone on a smartphone or PC in the interim.
 
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