VOIP Skype system replacment....?

For those of you who may find building your own VOIP/Skype system a bit overwhelming.... I may have just the thing for you.

Ooma! is a nice little VOIP box that the company claims has a one time fee and your set for life. (unless your doing international calling)



I have not had a chance myself to review the box, but would jump at the chance if it came up.

There have been a lot of rave reviews on line, and heck; even Cali Lewis gave it a good review!

From what I can tell the international prices are just as good as Skypes. For me the price of calling family in Russia is the same as Skype.

As much as I would love to jump on the Ooma bandwagon, I just cant justify the cost at the moment. It would take me about five to six years to make my money back using Ooma. Thats not saying Ooma is bad, its just I pay about "$110 a year" for Skype with international calling, and a backup service if Skype should fail. To top that I would loose all my cool siptosis/Skype features.

If anyone out there is using Ooma, please drop me a line and let me know what you think. Maybe one day I will jump on the Ooma bandwagon.

SiptheeSkype Now SipToSis

Well my phone system had a little crash and I had to set my machine and ATA up once again. In the process I thought I'd take a look and see what updates SitptheeSkype had......

Well I found out the name changed again and is now called SipToSis. The name change is not that big of a deal, what is a big deal is how easy SipToSis is to set up.

NOTE: SipToSis now has a GNU GPL: $2.50 distribution fee. Believe me its worth it...and more.

Now just because it had a distribution fee does not say you couldn't distribute it yourself...after all it is under the GPL.

I actually wish I could have placed an additional $15 or so to the basket at check out to give a little gratitude for all the work that has gone into this!

So lets get with it!

Well you need the normal files....Java 1.5 JRE or higher, Skype, and SipToSis.

Basically; once you have java and Skype installed all you do is extract SipToSis files to a location and execute the SipToSis_win.bat file. From there allow jave to interact with skype by going to Tools-Options-Advance and click Manage other programs access to Skype (On the bottom). From there click allow.

The full process is well documented here, and gives you plenty of possibilities!

As for the dial plan....You may want to take a look over here.... and here... Once you have your dialplan in place take a look at the section over here that says "A word about the dialplan". Thats how I have mine set up, and it works nice!

If you have any questions...feel free to drop me a line.