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Telephony is the term for voice communication over distances.

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How to use a Windows 10 computer to make and receive POTS/PSTN phone calls in 2019?

I would like to connect a PSTN/POTS, RJ11 (or RJ12) cable to a device and connect that device to a Windows 10 USB receptacle. I would like to be able to make and receive phone calls using the default ...
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tel: tag in chrome (mac os x) opens facetime, but in gmail it opens hangouts, how to make it open hangouts everywhere?

There is a discussion about the handler of the tel tag here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/hangouts/ItliGvezjdM However, no solution was proposed to make hangouts handle all such ...
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Telephone Server, Telephones, Printers, PCs & Servers on Individual VLAN's, DHCP clashing

As a requirement for being taken over by a corporation we have been asked to stop using a firewall (Juniper SSG-140) to separate our telephone system from the main LAN. Our idea, VLANs. With some ...
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Unable to Ping Voice Servers Provided by ISP

I am using a Nokia ONT G-2425G-A router, with an Airtel home subscription in India. The ISP provides Internet access as well as a VoIP connection. It works by attaching a physical telephone to the ...
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VOIP virtual numbers

I recently purchased a virtual number which is similiar to local landline number provided by my local provider. how voip provider can provide virtual numbers over VOIP? Do they have contract with ...
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VPN connection problems regarding plex media server and voice over IP

I have a home server - running Debian Jessie and plex media server. My router (fritzbox) allows all smartphones in my LAN to receive incoming landline calls (due to a certain app). This part works ...
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2 DHCP servers on the same network

Riddle me this: A BT Quantum Phone system has a built in web server for administration and configuration. However it also contains a DHCP server that cannot be turned off and a static IP address that ...
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Put extensions in some logical groups, so that only extensions that have same group can call each other in FusionPBX

I need to use FusionPBX as SIP registar (Session Initiation Protocol) or SIP server, to route SIP calls to appropriate SIP accounts (extensions). Currently every extension has possibility to call any ...
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How to configure an IP phone in a home network

I asked a question in https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/82973/how-to-configure-an-ip-phone-in-a-home-network?noredirect=1#comment149990_82973 my ISP gave me a number with default ...
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How to setup Outlook to use connected phone to call contacts?

I have my smartphone and and Windows 10 PC connected to the same Microsoft account. My Smartphone does show up as a connected device on the PC. I can easily initiate phone calls with the phone from ...
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IP intercom across two networks

I need my 2N IP intercom to ring phones across two different networks. NetworkA is 10.1.10.x and has a switch NetworkB is 17.148.17.x and has a switch Someone said I should buy a router to ...
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Can Hardwired Telephone Lines be used to Extend a DSL Connection?

My current configuration has what appears to be an RJ11 connection going from the wall jack directly to my DSL modem. Here is a picture of the faceplate; the blue jack is the phone line and the green ...
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ROUTERS and SIP TELEPHONE

I have just installed a new router with enhanced firewall and wireless capabilities. The new router does not have a DECT port, the unit from my ISP does, so I'm looking to interconnect the two to ...
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Initiating a DTLS connection

I am running a Janus WebRTC gateway on a Windows 10 Professional computer. Using this gateway I am calling a soft phone (Xlite) in our LAN from a Firefox browser (on Microsoft Azure virtual machine). ...
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Make a phone number ring for some time using a 56KB modem

we have an old modem model US Robotics Sportster Flash and we'd need to use it to open a door in our organization, by making a phone call to an internal number (say, 101). We are running on an Ubuntu ...
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Do I really have a telephone-only cord connected to my RJ-45 jack?

I recently purchased an end table that comes two electrical outlets and an RJ-45 jack. The RJ-45 jack came wired with a cable I am having trouble identifying. The markings say E170689 AWM STYLE ...
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SIP forwarding via DNS. Possible?

Let's say I have an address sip:[email protected] that I would like to use for Internet calls, but my SIP provider is Callcentric and I need to route such calls to sip:[email protected]. ...
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Asterisk / Digium card / FreePBX : how to define on which inbound port I want to connect the telephony line on my 4-ports telephony card?

I am a newbie with Asterisk. I have a 4-ports Digium telephony card. I connected my analogic telephony line to one of these 4 ports. I have set up an IVR thanks to the FreePBX interface. I have set ...
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Routing calls to a mobile phone with a Mi-Fi?

I am traveling to the U.S. soon & I am planning to buy a Mi-Fi and a prepaid SIM with a voice and data plan being included. So, besides using the Mi-Fi as wireless data access point to which ...
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Outlook asks me to enter area code when editing telephone numbers in contacts

I’m keeping my Hotmail contacts synchronised with my phone. However if i try to edit the phone number in Outlook 2007 on my PC, i get the following dialog box: Sorry for Polish language, this ...
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how to record normal/PSTN calls using asterisk

i want to recording incoming calls and outgoing calls using asterisk. when i make a call from my mobile phone with a custom dialer. my calls will not be a voice calls i.e. Voice over ip , that will be ...
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Asterisk replacement for multi-line/multi-phone/all ring Nortel system?

I'm trying to replace an aging Nortel phone system with an Asterisk based system. The existing system work something like this: Phone 1- -Line 1 Phone 2-- --Line 2 Phone 3-...
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How to place and receive phone calls on Debian?

I have a 4G modem with a valid SIM card on a Debian PC. The WWAN card is a Fibocom L850GL provided by Lenovo on a new X1C7. I have modem-manager-gui and I can send and receive SMS with it. How can ...
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