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Just curious, are there any Vonage-like VoIP services which will allow
me to use a Cisco ATA-186 (or something similar) when I'm at home, but
use a soft phone on my laptop when I'm away?

I'm currently using Vonage, relatively happy, but the closest I can come
is to purchase their soft phone, use up a separate bank of minutes (So I
can have leftover minutes on one and get billed on the other) and rely
on call-forwarding to get my incoming calls -- No thanks, I'd like to
just turn off the ATA and/or turn on the soft phone.

Anything like that out in the market yet?

For whatever it's worth, I live in Alberta Canada, work for a company in
Dallas TX, can ship product and/or pay for product from either location.
Local numbers in either area preferred, but I'll consider anything.

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I don't know about what you are looking about, but you can pull off the same
effect with a second ATA and FXS/FXO adapter and something like freeworld
dialup.

Setup two FWD accounts. Buy a cheap second ATA like a grandstream ata 286.
Connect it to the FXO/FXS converter and connect the adapter to your vonage
account. Set it for a two way forward. When a call comes in on Vonage it
will forward to your FWD account. You can program your FWD account to
automatically call your ATA, punch in a PIN, and you have your Vonage
dialtone.

Stu

"DevilsPGD" <> wrote in message
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> Just curious, are there any Vonage-like VoIP services which will allow
> me to use a Cisco ATA-186 (or something similar) when I'm at home, but
> use a soft phone on my laptop when I'm away?
>
> I'm currently using Vonage, relatively happy, but the closest I can come
> is to purchase their soft phone, use up a separate bank of minutes (So I
> can have leftover minutes on one and get billed on the other) and rely
> on call-forwarding to get my incoming calls -- No thanks, I'd like to
> just turn off the ATA and/or turn on the soft phone.
>
> Anything like that out in the market yet?
>
> For whatever it's worth, I live in Alberta Canada, work for a company in
> Dallas TX, can ship product and/or pay for product from either location.
> Local numbers in either area preferred, but I'll consider anything.
>
> --
> HTML email should be treated in the same manner as sexual acts between
> consenting adults. Only done in private places where willing parties,
> whom agreed upon such an act BEFOREHAND, will see it.

In message <<6jaQb.33320$P%. com>>
"Stuart Friedman" <> did ramble:

>I don't know about what you are looking about, but you can pull off the same
>effect with a second ATA and FXS/FXO adapter and something like freeworld
>dialup.
>
>Setup two FWD accounts. Buy a cheap second ATA like a grandstream ata 286.
>Connect it to the FXO/FXS converter and connect the adapter to your vonage
>account. Set it for a two way forward. When a call comes in on Vonage it
>will forward to your FWD account. You can program your FWD account to
>automatically call your ATA, punch in a PIN, and you have your Vonage
>dialtone.

I was hoping to find a one-step "service" that offers this, rather then
cooking something myself. If I'm going to build a custom solution of my
own, I'll probably invest and build us an internal PBX in the process,
but I'm not quite ready for that yet.

No one offers unlimited on a softphone. I connect here
(www.iconnecthere.com) offers some decent bucket minute packages for
softphones.

Stu

"DevilsPGD" <> wrote in message
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> In message <<6jaQb.33320$P%. com>>
> "Stuart Friedman" <> did ramble:
>
> >I don't know about what you are looking about, but you can pull off the
same
> >effect with a second ATA and FXS/FXO adapter and something like freeworld
> >dialup.
> >
> >Setup two FWD accounts. Buy a cheap second ATA like a grandstream ata
286.
> >Connect it to the FXO/FXS converter and connect the adapter to your
vonage
> >account. Set it for a two way forward. When a call comes in on Vonage
it
> >will forward to your FWD account. You can program your FWD account to
> >automatically call your ATA, punch in a PIN, and you have your Vonage
> >dialtone.
>
> I was hoping to find a one-step "service" that offers this, rather then
> cooking something myself. If I'm going to build a custom solution of my
> own, I'll probably invest and build us an internal PBX in the process,
> but I'm not quite ready for that yet.
>