freephoneline.ca - How does it work?

freephoneline.ca uses Voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology. You can sign up with their service for free online. Their website provides you a real Canadian phone number (your choice from random phone numbers generated by their system) upon signing up. You can make phone calls right away using a softphone (a software program for making phone calls from your computer) or Android and iPhone app. The phone calls are free as long as the cities (you are calling) are on their free calling city list. If you wish to use your regular telephone handsets with their service, you need to buy your own analog telephone adapter (ATA) and purchase a configuration file (VoIP Unlock Key) for your ATA. Once your ATA is setup with the configuration file and connected to Ethernet modem, you can hook up your regular phone to the ATA and start making and receiving phone calls.  Please note, freephoneline.ca does not offer any support for a 3rd party ATA.

Standard telephone features such as Caller ID, Voicemail and Follow Me Service (essentially a Call Forwarding service; however, you can forward up to 3 different phone numbers) are included.  Call Waiting is not advertising but it is reported to be working (you have to set it up in your ATA). The Enhanced Voicemail feature allows your voicemails to be sent to your email account. In addition, porting of your existing phone number is possible (although not guaranteed and available in all cities) for a fee which makes their service attractive for those who have had their number for a long time and would like to keep using it.

Depending on your current home phone bill, you can recover the initial setup cost within 3 - 6 months, (over 10 months if you are using a VoIP phone company such as iTalkBB which already offers very low monthly rate). It might sound too good to be true, but after the initial setup is paid off, you will never pay for your phone bills again! The only concern is that the sustainability of the company is unknown because freephoneline.ca does not collect any monthly fees for providing their service.  As such, their revenue is probably dependant on long-distance charges and selling "VoIP Unlock Keys" to new customers.

Please remember VoIP phone service is dependant on your Internet connection so you will lose your phone service if there is a network or power outage. Also, you must keep your address up-to-date in case of emergencies because unlike tra

Freephoneline.ca ATA Registration Period RESOLVE

RegistrationPeriod that need to be changed from 60 sec to 3600 sec

the RegistrationPeriod is located in the Expert menu under

Service Providers > ITSP Profile X SIP > RegistrationPeriod

Uncheck the Obitalk Settings and then the Device Default and change the value for 3600

That should fixed the "486 Too many registers" Error Message

Default Value
RegistrationPeriod:  60

Freephoneline.ca Setup Grandstream HandyTone HT-701

Freephoneline.ca Configuration settings for the Grandstream HandyTone HT-701

The instructions say 'Fongo' but will the same settings in PDF file work with freephoneline

Yes they will. Freephoneline is simply a brand of Fongo

ATA Config - Grandstream HT-701 (Fongo) FW 1.0.0.18 (Feb 2013).pdf

ATA Config - Grandstream HT-701 (Fongo) FW 1.0.4.3 (Feb 2013).pdf

Fongo | Development Support Specialist.
http://forum.fongo.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=536

D-Link VTA Setting for Freephoneline

This page discusses the VoIP settings for the D-Link VTA VoIP router. For all the other settings, please consult the user manual available here. The guide applies to all the versions of the D-Link VTA (VTA-VR, VTA-CV, VTA-VD).

Before you start configuring the adapter, make sure you have the following settings for your SIP account:
- SIP Server address (sometimes called SIP Proxy)
- SIP User ID (in most cases this is the phone number)
- The password for the SIP account
To obtain these settings, you must contact Freephoneline and ask for your configuration file. There's a one time charge for this, currently $50 CAD + tax. They will send you a Word document with the settings.

Connect all the cables: power cord, an Ethernet cable to your router and a phone into the green Phone 1 port. Wait about a minute for the router to power up, then check your router's DHCP table to find the IP address assigned to the ATA (see some samples for different router brands here). Put that IP address in a browser and login with username Admin and blank password.

D-LINK DIR-615 FREEPHONELINE Support

D-LINK DIR-615 has SIpAlg and (certainly older firmware) this makes SIP/Voip very difficult (actually it is meant to help!). Try turning SipALg in your router off, reboot both the router an the ATA. See if it works. If not check the firmware version in the router and then read this


SPA2102 UNABLE IN/OUT CALL BEHIND THE D-LINK DIR-615, HARDWARE-C1; FRAME:3.11NA
http://community.linksys.com/t5/VoIP-Adapters/SPA2102-UNABLE-IN-OUT-CALL-BEHIND-THE-D-LINK-DIR-615-HARDWARE-C1/td-p/278914


From;

http://forum.fongo.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5366