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wanting to use gv# as primary number #95

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hey guys...
thanks you soo much for changing the world with all of your work. Seriously has 
helped me out so much. 

Right now I have a sipgate-gv-sipsorcery setup as explained in this <a 
href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Ae8glDUXDsh9ZGR2eG43cjRfMzNkOTM4ZjNjeA&
hl=en">beautiful tutorial</a>. it works perfectly... i bought the pap2 ata and 
it is working flawless as a free landline. 

The only issue i'm having is that i would love to have all of my contacts call 
me on my gv# from now on because i would love to keep gv features on my 
cellphone. i tried forwarding gv to my verizon number... but it brings about 
what seems to be a redundant loop cycle. so lets say somebody calls my verizon 
number, i ignore it... goes to voicemail, rings again because it's setup to 
forward to that phone. 

Am i missing an easy solutin or is there something i have to change in the dial 
plan?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks again.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by shmar...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 4:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks for opening a ticket, and thanks for the kind words. I'm sure I speak 
for everyone who has helped when I say, "our pleasure". Mike (mtelis) was 
already doing this for quite some time for a very technical crowd. All I did 
was write up some instructions anyone could read and asked some other people to 
take pictures of the screens as they made their devices work with the setup.

The dialplan is actually a very small part of this whole thing and doesn't 
touch or impact the voice side of your cellphone. Do you have one of the Droid 
phones? What about wifi? If you do, did you know you can put the "app" 
equivalent of your ATA on your phone? It will make and receive calls over your 
Internet connection just like your ATA at home. You have two primary options, 
sipdroid and Fring. Sipdroid more cleanly adds the capability to make and 
receive calls over SIP (meaning your data plan or wifi), while Fring is whole 
other communications tool to learn.

If you stop forwarding your GV# to your cellphone number, then the calls to 
your cellphone will only make one loop. Your cellphone will forward to your 
GV#, which will in turn ring sipdroid (NOT your regular cellphone number) and 
the call will stop looping. Anyone who calls your GV# directly will ring right 
into sipdroid or Fring first, and will wait less time to get their calls 
answered.

While it is cool to move your calls to your data plan, many people have 
reported varying call quality that way and you may not want to make and receive 
all of your calls over the Internet. The more you practice with it, though, the 
more ready you will be if/when you travel outside the country and need a cheap 
cellphone with a US-based number.

If, after reading all this, you don't have one of the Droid phones, then the 
solution will be much tougher for you.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 5:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
thanks for the quick reply. 

yeah i've been using fring for awhile now on my motodroid... i only use it when 
i'm away from home now... or when i'm in canada calling the us. i love the pap2 
setup... call quality is much better and more importantly it is more reliable i 
find than fring.

i basically have it setup like this because i'm in the only apartment in new 
york without verizon service... it sucks... like really sucks. i have it setup 
so that i ignore the call on my cell which rings my gv#... on my "landline." i 
tried having the gv# forward to the verizon# but it kinda made things unstable. 
it would work for a bit but i would basically have to reset my router every 3rd 
call. i assume this has to do with some looping as described in the first post?

i love the setup i have now... i really just want the gv features on my 
cellphone... so really not a big deal. 

thanks again for all of your hard work.

Original comment by shmar...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 5:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks for the follow-up. If your router is giving you a lot of trouble in 
general, and you're running an older Linksys, like a WRT54G, check out the 
Tomato firmware. Linksys was caught illegally modifying and using Linux in 
those units years ago and were forced to publish the software they used and 
modifications they made for those units. That enabled other people to design 
replacement firmware packages for those models (and many more). Tomato is one 
such alternate firmware and really did breathe new life into my router.

I used to put my router on a light timer to periodically reboot it! No more of 
that. It runs great for months at a time, and adds features that are normally 
found in other Cisco gear costing thousands of $$. Unfortunately, it doesn't 
support Asterisk VoIP servers like another alternative firmware does, but 
Tomato allows you to mark your VoIP packets with the highest priority on your 
network, unlike that other alternative firmware.

In case you haven't read it elsewhere, my ultimate goal is to stop pounding on 
the free services out there and have everyone host their own phone lines right 
in their wireless router. Perfect for safely hosting lines reachable by both 
devices in the home and apps on your cellphone.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 5:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
@easter...
Very interesting. Could you please let me know while I can find the detailed 
documents regarding "host phone lines in the wireless router"?

Original comment by victor...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 8:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
That's the problem, this doesn't exist yet. The closest is the Asterisk module 
that has been built for the DD-WRT custom router firmware. Now, GV scripts do 
exist for Asterisk, but I've never been able to locate GV support for the 
Asterisk that was custom-built for DD-WRT.

Hosting home phone lines directly from my router is my dream, not quite 
reality...yet.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 8:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
@easter...

Could you please let me know which version of Tomato you are using now?

Thanks,

Original comment by victor...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2010 at 8:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Sure, I was on 1.27 for a while but upgraded to 1.28 when it dropped.

http://www.polarcloud.com/firmware

Remember, Tomato supports QoS to improve voice quality on heavily utilized 
connections, but DD-WRT has Asterisk built in, which could let you literally 
host your own SIP service right in your router with the right scripts. I 
haven't checked in a while, so there may have been some developments, but last 
I looked, no one had added GV integration into the DD-WRT embedded version of 
Asterisk.

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2010 at 8:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Victorwzq check out this forum thread if you're interested in tackling the 
installation of Asterisk with Free Google Voice calling right on your router.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=43787&postdays=0&postorder=asc&star
t=0

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2010 at 8:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
easter

Thank you for the information and links. I will check it out.

Original comment by victor...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2010 at 8:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Closing due to inactivity

Original comment by easter...@gmail.com on 8 Feb 2011 at 1:38