[woodyear99]

Question for those using DSL without a firewall....Does tstt block ports 5060 or 6000? Commonly used VOIP SIP ports. Can't seem to use them even though I have no firewall on my end or theirs...

Run this test to check.
http://www.testyourvoip.com/

[StarCon]

dunno what they did, but my spa2000 box stopped working
with several voip providers earlier this year.

strangely enough, pc2phone applications still work as well as
fwd configured with the spa2000.

I'd imagine that they would try to block those ports - as voip usage is (as the admin pointed out to me) in violation of the tstt tos.

I think pc2phone apps are not covered by that though.

[woodyear99]

Ah thanks for validating my assumption.

Yeah can't get my SIP to work no wonder....

Good Job Tstt.

[StarCon]

heh.. you can't blame 'em for trying to protect their revenue
streams. maybe they're going to offer a smartchoice|voip&pirate unlimited package soon - pay 300 bucks/m extra and you can do what you want with hsia

[StarCon]

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Amazingly those "call" centres get the good VOIP rates hmm I wonder what system they using? Vonage?

nah.. vonage is us only

there's a number of companies out there that you could use - even skype (out)
the average rate per minute to us/can is about 2 us cents and ca. 4 cents to europe.

didn't the callcenters move to alternative providers like fibreline when tstt started the campaign against them ?

[woodyear99]

Doubt it, have you ever seen fiberline and green dot latency? ugh...

[StarCon]

what's it like ? 500ms ?

[obasi]

Good Day,

SIP Devices register on port 5060, well those I have used.
Devices currently being used: XLite and SJPhone.

Now these devices work fine within ones own networking environment, but will not work through your DSL Service provided by TSTT.

As was said earlier, the PC2Phone Services such as skype still work because they tunnel through the providers Servers before going over the 5060 port to their respective destinations.

Having inquired about this myself, TSTT does block VOIP access of any kind that uses standard VOIP ports and protocols.

The FWD services work, because they use port 4886 [Will have to check the PBX].

Remember all these ports are UDP.

For those who wish to have access to their ports, they can contact another service provider GreenDot [Not too sure about price, but go brave].

I like the topic you all have started, and hope we can have use of our SIP sometime soon, regardless of service provider.

[woodyear99]

Green Dot & Fiberline have latency issues...

[obasi]

Well then, I guess we are stuck with the service until other service providers can come up to scratch.

[obasi]

Within the last few days, their have been no development that i have seen on my DSL [recently installed], but what exactly are you experiencing.