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#Voipms has been experiencing a major outage since 9:33am EDT (as per my logs) but their status page only confirms this after I made a ticket, and only shows it as of 10:31 am.
What's the point of a status page if it can't confirm a broken issue?
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#Voipms has been experiencing a major outage since 9:33am EDT (as per my logs) but their status page only confirms this after I made a ticket, and only shows it as of 10:31 am.
What's the point of a status page if it can't confirm a broken issue?
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@frxe no current writeup, but:
* provider: voip.ms
* hardware phone: Grandstream WP826
* android phone app: MizuDroid*
* desktop phone app: MicroSIP on Winethe asterisk regarding MizuDroid is that really none of the Android apps are great, you might also look at PortSIP uC.
on desktop, MicroSIP is good for what it is, a Windows SIP app for power users with every lever knob & dial available to twiddle.
there's a reason I almost never use the software phones any more after getting a hardware phone with decent WiFi 6 support. WiFi 5 and WiFi 6 were game-changers in terms of usability in marginal conditions which made a WiFi-only cordless phone much more realistic.
you could also get a wired cordless phone or even just a wired phone and use an analog telephone adapter like the Grandstream HT802. I currently have one of those gathering dust because my WP826 does what I need, but before I moved I had a 25yo 900MHz digital cordless phone attached to it.
main other thing to consider is that SIP is the call setup protocol and RTP is the audio protocol, and what stumped me for a very long time is that when you enable security, SIPS (SIP-over-TLS) takes place over TCP and *not* the usual UDP, whereas SRTP still goes over UDP. not understanding this can be a major pitfall, and documentation of generic VOIP shit is almost universally terrible, that's why there are so many providers starting at $10-20/mo and up where you have to use their app and/or their equipment in many cases.
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@frxe no current writeup, but:
* provider: voip.ms
* hardware phone: Grandstream WP826
* android phone app: MizuDroid*
* desktop phone app: MicroSIP on Winethe asterisk regarding MizuDroid is that really none of the Android apps are great, you might also look at PortSIP uC.
on desktop, MicroSIP is good for what it is, a Windows SIP app for power users with every lever knob & dial available to twiddle.
there's a reason I almost never use the software phones any more after getting a hardware phone with decent WiFi 6 support. WiFi 5 and WiFi 6 were game-changers in terms of usability in marginal conditions which made a WiFi-only cordless phone much more realistic.
you could also get a wired cordless phone or even just a wired phone and use an analog telephone adapter like the Grandstream HT802. I currently have one of those gathering dust because my WP826 does what I need, but before I moved I had a 25yo 900MHz digital cordless phone attached to it.
main other thing to consider is that SIP is the call setup protocol and RTP is the audio protocol, and what stumped me for a very long time is that when you enable security, SIPS (SIP-over-TLS) takes place over TCP and *not* the usual UDP, whereas SRTP still goes over UDP. not understanding this can be a major pitfall, and documentation of generic VOIP shit is almost universally terrible, that's why there are so many providers starting at $10-20/mo and up where you have to use their app and/or their equipment in many cases.
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#VoipMS user is requesting testing of his fork of the community Android SMS client which adds MMS support before making a pull request upstream:
https://github.com/michaelkourlas/voipms-sms-client/issues/190#issuecomment-4151155225
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#VoipMS user is requesting testing of his fork of the community Android SMS client which adds MMS support before making a pull request upstream:
https://github.com/michaelkourlas/voipms-sms-client/issues/190#issuecomment-4151155225
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I hate to say it, but I'm probably gonna have to find a different VOIP provider than #VoipMS at some point. I mean I'll wait until I'm forced - maybe - but their forum is not encouraging, nor is the performance of many of their services which aren't solely related to SIP voice calling.
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I hate to say it, but I'm probably gonna have to find a different VOIP provider than #VoipMS at some point. I mean I'll wait until I'm forced - maybe - but their forum is not encouraging, nor is the performance of many of their services which aren't solely related to SIP voice calling.
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interesting, voip dot ms now has their own branded softphone app for Android and iOS...
https://wiki.voip.ms/article/VoIP.ms_Softphone
given the state of their API and the state of SIP calling on modern Android, I gotta be honest that I'm not super excited about this. I find my physical wifi-based VOIP phone way more user-friendly for phone calls, and thankfully 98% of my messaging happens in Signal so I don't have to deal with SIP texting much. there's a third-party app for that on #VoipMS but it's weird because their API is weird.
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interesting, voip dot ms now has their own branded softphone app for Android and iOS...
https://wiki.voip.ms/article/VoIP.ms_Softphone
given the state of their API and the state of SIP calling on modern Android, I gotta be honest that I'm not super excited about this. I find my physical wifi-based VOIP phone way more user-friendly for phone calls, and thankfully 98% of my messaging happens in Signal so I don't have to deal with SIP texting much. there's a third-party app for that on #VoipMS but it's weird because their API is weird.
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looks like #VoipMS still doesn't really handle group texts well at all in 2025. not great.
however, it's $1.10 a month for their metered lines, which is a big part of why I'm a customer ... that and the fact that I am one of the very few people who does nearly all their messaging on Signal
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looks like #VoipMS still doesn't really handle group texts well at all in 2025. not great.
however, it's $1.10 a month for their metered lines, which is a big part of why I'm a customer ... that and the fact that I am one of the very few people who does nearly all their messaging on Signal
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A little bit about some recent #VOIP adventures, featuring Hamshack Hotline, Hams over IP, NZSIP from DVNZ, and moving my ATT land line phone to voip.ms .
Please don't let anyone ever tell you that this is "not really ham radio" when there is a ham at each end of a conversation!
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A little bit about some recent #VOIP adventures, featuring Hamshack Hotline, Hams over IP, NZSIP from DVNZ, and moving my ATT land line phone to voip.ms .
Please don't let anyone ever tell you that this is "not really ham radio" when there is a ham at each end of a conversation!
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A little bit about some recent #VOIP adventures, featuring Hamshack Hotline, Hams over IP, NZSIP from DVNZ, and moving my ATT land line phone to voip.ms .
Please don't let anyone ever tell you that this is "not really ham radio" when there is a ham at each end of a conversation!
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A little bit about some recent #VOIP adventures, featuring Hamshack Hotline, Hams over IP, NZSIP from DVNZ, and moving my ATT land line phone to voip.ms .
Please don't let anyone ever tell you that this is "not really ham radio" when there is a ham at each end of a conversation!
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A little bit about some recent #VOIP adventures, featuring Hamshack Hotline, Hams over IP, NZSIP from DVNZ, and moving my ATT land line phone to voip.ms .
Please don't let anyone ever tell you that this is "not really ham radio" when there is a ham at each end of a conversation!
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but thankfully there are parts of my #surfhosting tech stack which are fairly settled already:
OS: #LinuxMint; #Debian (with #LXQt if needed, or #BunsenLabs); #OpenWRT
Virtualization: #Proxmox
Hardware: refurb "1-liter" #1LPC business #miniPC from HP, Dell, Lenovo, with mid to high end CPU
Network: #GLiNet and #FriendlyElec #NanoPi routers / network-attached devices; #PiVPN
Phone: #VoipMS with dedicated SIP phone, plus softphone apps for limited use
Power: 90% of everything powered from compact #GaN USB-PD power supplies; 24/7 gear backed by ~15 year old consumer UPSes with drop-in LFP 12V batteries
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but thankfully there are parts of my #surfhosting tech stack which are fairly settled already:
OS: #LinuxMint; #Debian (with #LXQt if needed, or #BunsenLabs); #OpenWRT
Virtualization: #Proxmox
Hardware: refurb "1-liter" #1LPC business #miniPC from HP, Dell, Lenovo, with mid to high end CPU
Network: #GLiNet and #FriendlyElec #NanoPi routers / network-attached devices; #PiVPN
Phone: #VoipMS with dedicated SIP phone, plus softphone apps for limited use
Power: 90% of everything powered from compact #GaN USB-PD power supplies; 24/7 gear backed by ~15 year old consumer UPSes with drop-in LFP 12V batteries
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@purpleidea the unannounced changes to services people are actually using is by far the worst part of the #voipms experience
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@purpleidea the unannounced changes to services people are actually using is by far the worst part of the #voipms experience
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For anyone using CHAN_SIP with #voipms, whatever unannounced migration/configuration change they just did (around ~12h ago) broke all those connections for inbound traffic (to your asterisk/freepbx boxes) only.
If you were affected by this, please comment and let me know.
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For anyone using CHAN_SIP with #voipms, whatever unannounced migration/configuration change they just did (around ~12h ago) broke all those connections for inbound traffic (to your asterisk/freepbx boxes) only.
If you were affected by this, please comment and let me know.
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despite the firmware bugs - which do seem to be getting fixed over time - having a physical VOIP phone like the Grandstream WP826 makes using a generic VOIP carrier like Voip dot ms so much less painful than software phones can be.
that's pretty important, especially when you realize that with #VoipMS you can have a phone like for about $2/month and $0.01/minute of talk time.
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despite the firmware bugs - which do seem to be getting fixed over time - having a physical VOIP phone like the Grandstream WP826 makes using a generic VOIP carrier like Voip dot ms so much less painful than software phones can be.
that's pretty important, especially when you realize that with #VoipMS you can have a phone like for about $2/month and $0.01/minute of talk time.
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@vfrmedia I tried to set out doing a PBX for myself once and my brain just could not handle the learning curve with the degree of sensory overload I experience in daily life at the moment 🙁
one thing that's nice about #voipms, you can set up a ton of PBX-ish functions in their web panel ... what I need, I think (hope?) is a device whose one job it is to take phone calls, which doesn't have other stuff going on (such as being viewed by Android as just another app to be managed) ... it really was such a decline when native SIP calling functionality was stripped from Android/Lineage
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@vfrmedia I tried to set out doing a PBX for myself once and my brain just could not handle the learning curve with the degree of sensory overload I experience in daily life at the moment 🙁
one thing that's nice about #voipms, you can set up a ton of PBX-ish functions in their web panel ... what I need, I think (hope?) is a device whose one job it is to take phone calls, which doesn't have other stuff going on (such as being viewed by Android as just another app to be managed) ... it really was such a decline when native SIP calling functionality was stripped from Android/Lineage
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So #VoipMS is my favorite service to get a number and set a basic phone system up with. If you want to try them out, why not use my referral link and help me out with a little credit at no additional charge to you. https://voip.ms/en/invite/MjIwNzgw
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Finally setting up a Cisco #VOIP phone that I got at a swap this spring. It's a 5-extension SPA525G.
Extension 1 is #VoipMS which has a VOIP telephone number on it and which I plan to port the home landline to. (Looking forward to adventures in porting.)
Extension 2 is @hamsoverip which has bridges to a couple of interesting #hamradio reflectors. #hoip
Plans: extension 3 on #HamShackHotline (opened a ticket with them) to connect to #Fedihams one more way.
4 and 5, TBD
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Finally setting up a Cisco #VOIP phone that I got at a swap this spring. It's a 5-extension SPA525G.
Extension 1 is #VoipMS which has a VOIP telephone number on it and which I plan to port the home landline to. (Looking forward to adventures in porting.)
Extension 2 is @hamsoverip which has bridges to a couple of interesting #hamradio reflectors. #hoip
Plans: extension 3 on #HamShackHotline (opened a ticket with them) to connect to #Fedihams one more way.
4 and 5, TBD
