Please could you recommend an ATA for the following scenario:

- Accomodate a single DECT phone which needs to be able to use the
PSTN by default (important!)
- Pressing a specific key on the DECT phone and then dialing will
route via a SIP account
- No interest in incoming calls via VOIP.  This is purely a solution
to gain cheaper outgoing calls
- Fallover, so if the ATA is switched off, the DECT phone can still
make calls over the PSTN.

I see many different ATA's but they all seem to route via VOIP by
default with a seperate key to route via PSTN.

Thanks in advance.

With a suitable dial plan, it is easy to setup using an ATA such as a 
Linksys SPA 3102

Cheers from Mike

Dave Angel wrote:
> Please could you recommend an ATA for the following scenario:
> 
> - Accomodate a single DECT phone which needs to be able to use the
> PSTN by default (important!)
> - Pressing a specific key on the DECT phone and then dialing will
> route via a SIP account
> - No interest in incoming calls via VOIP.  This is purely a solution
> to gain cheaper outgoing calls
> - Fallover, so if the ATA is switched off, the DECT phone can still
> make calls over the PSTN.
> 
> I see many different ATA's but they all seem to route via VOIP by
> default with a seperate key to route via PSTN.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Linksys SPA-3102 will do all that no problem.

cheers,
Paul.

Dave Angel wrote:
> 
> I see many different ATA's but they all seem to route via VOIP by
> default with a seperate key to route via PSTN.


You could get the ATA and DECT phone all in one by buying a Siemens C460IP.

http://www.provu.co.uk/siemens_c460IP.html


There is a setting in the web interface to choose whether calls go VoIP
or PSTN by default.

Tim

All Grandstream ATAs works fine after a firmware upgrade.


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> Please could you recommend an ATA for the following scenario:
> 
> - Accomodate a single DECT phone which needs to be able to use the
> PSTN by default (important!)
> - Pressing a specific key on the DECT phone and then dialing will
> route via a SIP account
> - No interest in incoming calls via VOIP.  This is purely a solution
> to gain cheaper outgoing calls
> - Fallover, so if the ATA is switched off, the DECT phone can still
> make calls over the PSTN.
> I see many different ATA's but they all seem to route via VOIP by
> default with a seperate key to route via PSTN.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>

Dave Angel  wrote:
> - No interest in incoming calls via VOIP.  This is purely a solution
> to gain cheaper outgoing calls

Unless you're calling other SIP endpoints, i.e. your calls are entirely
VoIP, then I'd be really interested to know what VoIP provider you're
using that's cheaper than a landline, please?

Cheers,
Chris

"Mike Sun"  wrote in message 
news:ODu8j.62782$c_1.20096@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> With a suitable dial plan, it is easy to setup using an ATA such as a 
> Linksys SPA 3102
>
> Cheers from Mike
>
>

Look carefully. Linksys bought Sipura who actually made the SPA3102. 
Linksys are now owned by Cisco.

If you look under the roiginal brands you may well find some bargains. 
Whatever brand they are physically identical.


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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:30:40 +0000, Tim  wrote:
>Dave Angel wrote:
>> 
>> I see many different ATA's but they all seem to route via VOIP by
>> default with a seperate key to route via PSTN.
>
>
>You could get the ATA and DECT phone all in one by buying a Siemens C460IP.
>
>http://www.provu.co.uk/siemens_c460IP.html
>
>There is a setting in the web interface to choose whether calls go VoIP
>or PSTN by default.

Seconding this suggestion, I've got one of these beasties and it works 
well. If you set the default to PSTN calls you can suffix the number with 
* to route via VOIP.

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:24:29 +0000, Chris Davies  wrote:
>Dave Angel  wrote:
>> - No interest in incoming calls via VOIP.  This is purely a solution
>> to gain cheaper outgoing calls
>
>Unless you're calling other SIP endpoints, i.e. your calls are entirely
>VoIP, then I'd be really interested to know what VoIP provider you're
>using that's cheaper than a landline, please?

Voipcheap.com, is one such example. For EUR10 of credit (which gets EUR2 
of VAT at German 20% rate plus 0.50 payment fee - which works out in total 
close to GBP10.00 in all) you get 90 days free calls to 01/02 numbers plus 
many international landlines, including USA, Canada, Australia, most of 
Western Europe. UK mobiles are EUR0.08/min - including Three. Billing is 
per minute, with no connection charge.  Once you've used the 90 days' free 
calls (or exceed 300 mins free calls in a 7 day period) the free 
destinations are EUR0.01/minute.  Your EUR10(+2.50) top-up is used for 
these calls, and isn't depleted as a service charge for the free calls.

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Tony Arcucci wrote:
> All Grandstream ATAs works fine after a firmware upgrade.

Mine doesn't work at all. It stopped working several months ago. I'd not 
recommend them.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:26:45 +0000, Iain wrote:

> Tony Arcucci wrote:
>> All Grandstream ATAs works fine after a firmware upgrade.
> 
> Mine doesn't work at all. It stopped working several months ago. I'd not
> recommend them.

I would. Mine's working fine after 2.5 years.

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Woody schreef:
> "Mike Sun"  wrote in message 
> news:ODu8j.62782$c_1.20096@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> With a suitable dial plan, it is easy to setup using an ATA such as a 
>> Linksys SPA 3102
>>
>> Cheers from Mike
>>
>>
> 
> Look carefully. Linksys bought Sipura who actually made the SPA3102. 
> Linksys are now owned by Cisco.
> 
> If you look under the roiginal brands you may well find some bargains. 
> Whatever brand they are physically identical.
> 
> 

The Sipura/Linksys spa3102, is a good, cheap, solution, has all asked 
options, and other functions of this one you don't even have to use/set,
you can also use a service like MySIPSwitch, and you have almost 
unlimited options, than only the one line dialplan you have in the 
SPA3102, you can set your dialplan so, that only that provider is used 
what you pre-set, so you don't have to instruct your fellow phone users, 
and everyone is using cheap rates, without knowing it, you can set 
FreeWorldDialup to dial all the world's toll free numbers, dial 
emergency #'s can be routed to your landline by the SPA3102

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