{"id":67,"date":"2008-03-18T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T00:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/technical-advice\/take-advantage-of-voip-technology\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T14:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:35:19","slug":"take-advantage-of-voip-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/take-advantage-of-voip-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Advantage of VoIP Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

A close look at a simple Point to Point<\/strong> VoIP adapter<\/a> solution from Linksys<\/a> that could save you millions on those dreaded long distance fees.<\/p>\n

We have all encountered them; hidden fees. Those spikes in the phone bill are the reasons why we have to question, \u201cWhere did that charge come from?\u201d or \u201cI didn\u2019t realize that was a long distance call!\u201d Want to put a stop to all of that? You would be foolish if you didn\u2019t, so take a look at this solution:<\/p>\n

VOIP Technology is driven through a high speed internet connection. Calls are mostly made (in this scenario) over the SIP protocol, unlike the traditional POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) where calls pass over a series of circuited switched networks owned by your Telco provider. So let\u2019s drop the Telco provider out of the scenario and focusing on setting up a free point to point setup.<\/p>\n

First you are going to need the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A working high speed internet connection at both locations
\n\u2022 A Linksys PAP2T<\/strong> at each location
\n\u2022 An analog telephone to connect to the PAP2T\u2019s in each location.
\n\u2022 This instruction guide for proper setup\u2026<\/p>\n

Linksys spa-ata and PAP2T Point to Point Instructions<\/h2>\n

The following diagram below will lay out the setup for this process and all instructions and screenshots will reference it.
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

SITE A Configuration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instructions
\n1. Connect an analog telephone to phone 1 port on a VoIP adapter<\/a> unit.
\n2. Connect an Ethernet cable into the LAN port on your unit and power on.
\n3. From the analog phone, press ****, then 110# to get the IP Address of the unit.
\n4. Open your internet search browser from a computer and browse to that IP Address in the address bar.
\n5. Upon entering the Linksys Web GUI Configuration, click the System Tab.
\n6. Make the following changes.<\/p>\n

Here is a typical point to point scenario:<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s say I will be traveling to Europe in the upcoming months, but I would still like to remain in contact with my friend in Florida. I am fully aware that if I call her from a European land line, I will most likely incur long distance fees, which will inevitably add up over time. But before I went to Europe, I did some shopping on VoIPSupply.com and purchased two Linksys PAP2T’s<\/a> with the full intention to setup a pure VOIP solution to make free calls to and from my friend in Florida over the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n

After receiving the PAP2T\u2019s, I properly configured each unit to the specifications noted in the instructions above. I chose whatever extension worked best for me, and ensured that each would have a static IP address. This is a very important aspect of this setup since the two units \u201ctalk\u201d to each other via IP and are \u201cregistered\u201d to one another to form this IP communication link. After I had configured both units to \u201cpoint\u201d to one another, I made test calls to each, and the calls were made to and from both units on a pure VOIP basis.<\/p>\n

This solution costs around $100 and takes about 30 minutes max to setup. The best part about the solution is you can bring the PAP2T<\/a> anywhere, connect it to a high speed internet connection and make free calls to your other point. This is a point to point solution so you are only able to call the other recipient your device is configured to, and are limited to those boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A close look at a simple Point to Point VoIP adapter solution from Linksys that could save you millions on those dreaded long distance fees. We have all encountered them; hidden fees. Those spikes in the phone bill are the reasons why we have to question, \u201cWhere did that charge come from?\u201d or \u201cI didn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311265,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/311265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}