How to direct-dial your Vonage box

Posts: 605 · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:39 am Post subject:

I forgot about this. I think im going to try it again later and get the voice to work properly rather then the phone ring and dead air Smile

Posts: 605 · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject:

Well I seem to be able to dial and ring my telephone but I receive no audio on either end. No DTMF tones either if i press buttons. I have a RT31P2...what ports might I have to forward to get this to work?

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 4

Has anyone else had luck getting this to work? I have a Motorola VT1005. Calling sip:<number>@<ip>:5061 gives "request timeout" every time. Ports 5061 and 10050 to 10061 are being forwarded to the Motorola box.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 2

zia wrote:

Has anyone else had luck getting this to work? I have a Motorola VT1005. Calling sip:<number>@<ip>:5061 gives "request timeout" every time. Ports 5061 and 10050 to 10061 are being forwarded to the Motorola box.

The answer is sort of. Using gizmo, I can call a friend of mine's box and it works fine but it does not work with my Vonage box (both are linksys RT31P2 with the same firmware version). He can apparently call his box but a call to mine fails also. The routers are setup the same as far as I can tell so I think there's something in the Vonage "magic" setup screen that prevents this from working on some boxes but not in others. My guess is that something in the router is ignoring requests that aren't from Vonage servers since I see the request come in from northamerica.sipphone.com but nothing ever gets sent back. A real drag.

Posts: 7 · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:23 am Post subject: Remote SIPing of Vonage

Excuse me guys but does this mean that if I know the IP addess of your Vonage Router I can place international calls at your expense via your router?

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

Umm, no.

This means that if you get the IP address of my Vonage box, and you know my Vonage phone number (for the username portion), and I have my router configured to allow you to, you can make Voip calls directly to my Vonage box without needing to call my Vonage POTS number.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 2

NateHoy wrote:

... and I have my router configured to allow you to

And that's the $64 question - how can one diddle with this?

It's irritating that whether it works or not seems to be a function
of some random number generator.

Posts: 57 · Full Forum Member Joined: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 57

Tried it with my PAP2, and no go.