Doesn’t sound good. I never really used mine that much due to it being more of a nuisance than Skype. Also, when I used it, they used the IAX protocol, and not SIP. This may be useful for you to know if you’re setting up some hardware. Tesco are also re-selling a voip solution from someone here in Australia I think, I can’t remember exactly who, but I think they use their servers so if you log into tesco phone and do a netstat you should see who it is.

You posted the same question on the Siemens S675IP Blog. I have put a detailed answer on the Siemens S675IP Blog. There is also a note inviting you to contact me by phone from Siemens.

I guess you have not looked at the Siemens blog, lets hope you look at this one.

Regards,………..Chris.

After trying 2 more different technologies (two different ATA adapters and a WiFi phone) I would now recommend the purchase of a Siemens S685IP cordless VoIP phone with 2 or more handsets and subscription to poivY (12.50 € – euros initial payment) as a SIP provider.

The phone is expensive, but worth it. It will give you fantastic voice quality, endless features, like auto redial on busy.

The SIP provider poivY, will give you really cheap phone calls. For example free land line calls to Australia, UK and other major euro countries for 120 days and 0.054 € (euro) per minute to Australian mobiles.

I have no connection with either of these companies, just trying to help.

Good Luck.

The Tesco IPA 1000 adapter will only support IAX/IAX2 providers at best at a guess. Skype uses a proprietary protocol.

In other VoIP news, I recently purchased an SPA-941 Linksys IP phone, which I am very happy with – it works really well with the free service Sipgate (www.sipgate.co.uk) and I’m going to add a second line to it later this month. Call quality is nothing short of superb.

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