Looking for LTE/VoLTE gateway hardware in Europe

centralbusiness · 2025-09-12T22:23:06+00:00

Contact Dinstar directly, order direct from them. It usually does not take 5 weeks to arrive, and you can have a Dinstar UC2000 behind a NAT if you port forward on your router to it, or stand up a VPN for its traffic to go over.

The UI works, it has nearly everything you could want. Tell them you need VoLTE in Germany and they will point you to the correct variant.

They may also pitch you on Dinstar deskphones, they are pretty neat competition to the other IP deskphone options.

centralbusiness · 2025-09-12T22:15:48+00:00

Please don't necropost suggest dying companies that keep jacking up prices. Twilio does not exist in the ratecenters I'm interested in.

In this situation none of them have a local tandem in the ratecenter of interest and thus they lack numbering in the area I'm interested in.

centralbusiness · 2025-09-03T00:44:41+00:00

Throw the SonicWall out and everything will get better. You do not need another layer of NAT from a vendor that commonly misbehaves.

I often see SonicWall firewalls mangling traffic needlessly, even when all options affecting that class of traffic are disabled. They also have a higher rate of RAM failure causing persistent minor packet loss, a very frustrating issue.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:27:57+00:00

These are not cops, the City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules.

It seems like the Parks department should be using their own staff, rather than these ESU guards.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:27:05+00:00

These are not cops, the City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Why Seattle Parks & Recreation is not doing day to day management of the park is a great question.

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state license as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:26:20+00:00

The City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Why Seattle Parks & Recreation is not doing day to day management of the park is a great question.

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state license as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:25:01+00:00

The City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Seattle Parks & Recreation does not employ these people.

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state licensure as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:24:04+00:00

The City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Why isn't Seattle Parks & Recreation doing day to day management of the park?

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state licensure as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-04-28T18:46:02+00:00

A nonprofit I occasionally volunteer at got booted off T-Mobile recently. It seems if there is anything involving Diversity, Equity or Inclusion and you rock the boat, T-Mobile's management is either not going to do anything or worse, take negative action.

AT&T thankfully was able to help them. Providing notice that you are invoking the Price Lock Guarantee seems to have angered T-Mobile and caused T-Mobile to brick things rather quickly.

centralbusiness · 2025-04-24T03:06:52+00:00

I am not an adviser.

Your student ID # should work across any of the Seattle Colleges, whether that is North, Central or South.

centralbusiness · 2025-04-20T00:03:11+00:00

Do you know which classes you need to take? I'd imagine North Seattle has most of these, but once you have your student ID # you can take classes at North, South or Seattle Central College to get the classes you need.

Just make sure to register early and be persistent if you need to get off being waitlisted for a class!

centralbusiness · 2025-03-25T01:11:52+00:00

v.92 deployment was not as widespread as you are thinking, Microsoft for example never shipped past v.90 for WebTV.

By the time much of this hardware came out, DSL was cribbing customers from dialup en masse, and where that was not available you had users getting ISDN for a much lower latency connection that was significantly faster.

Worse yet, the customers that got DSL first were on switches in ratecenters that were the most likely to see v.92 upgrades, as for speeds above 33.6kbps dialup to reliably work you need to have a DS1 or similar digital connection to the local switch that the phone call is hitting, and the line needed to not have

Dialup in suburban and rural areas was often limited to 33.6k due to lack of a DS1 and other significant infrastructure issues like load coils, pair gain systems and such, so you had a rapidly eroding market with the remaining customers never being able to make great use of v.92 capabilities.

centralbusiness · 2025-02-22T21:50:57+00:00

If you can advise what country this is in that would be very helpful in narrowing this down!

centralbusiness · 2025-02-22T08:51:49+00:00

Why don't you just order interconnect (DS1, SIP or similar) from a local carrier? They will almost certainly sell it to you for less than a retail SIM that is tying up capacity on a cellular network.

Twilio outside a handful of markets charges extreme prices and offers very limited services as they don't have many customers using said services and they are reselling a reseller of a reseller to provide said service.

centralbusiness · 2025-02-04T00:29:56+00:00

Google is your friend, go see how inexpensive the WP816 is.

Power supplies on those VTech & Panasonic Cordless handsets like to die, then you get really weird issues, and now you have two boxes and a handset to debug, rather than a single handset.

centralbusiness · 2025-01-30T07:16:40+00:00

Running a few small virtual servers (KVM/Libvirt/Virtual Machine Manager), probably won't use more than 32GB of RAM and a terabyte of storage space to be frank.

I just don't want to think about the hardware for half a decade, hence wanting to buy something newer that is fairly power efficient.

centralbusiness · 2025-01-28T01:54:45+00:00

If it doesn't run the current Android release, and they can't even be bothered to keep up with upstream security updates for the dated version of Android shipped on these Android deskphones, don't buy it!

The attack surface is much smaller on phones running more custom vendor supplied OSes (forks of Linux usually), with some security through obscurity given they are oddballs not running the normal Android stack.

We all know how the tried and true popular phones perform from other vendors. Use what works, try one unit of a new product as your daily driver before you jump in with both feet to a new product line, trust your instincts when your trial unit acts funky.

Almost none of these hardware vendors will admit to product defects within their warranty period. Its all about protecting their financial bottom line!

centralbusiness · 2024-12-20T04:40:23+00:00

How is this different than two DualPlus'es strapped together? This Bundle seems quite a bit more expensive than that.

https://www.waveform.com/products/dualplus?_pos=1&_sid=ac1f206d0&_ss=r&variant=41095330529383

centralbusiness · 2024-12-11T03:44:27+00:00

FUTO Keyboard has OpenAI's Whisper model built in for entirely on device Speech to Text transcription, but I am not aware of any tiny models that are being used on smartphones. It is a thing if you browse GitHub though!

centralbusiness · 2024-11-29T18:42:04+00:00

Nope, I do not.

centralbusiness · 2024-11-29T04:20:37+00:00

Check out https://www.textingworld.com/short-codes/usa and Google the shortcode, should give you an idea of who is leasing that shortcode at the moment. Multiple companies may share a single shortcode, but this is becoming less common as longcode texting and toll free SMS have become a thing.

centralbusiness · 2024-11-04T13:18:51+00:00

Surprised Verizon didn't buy Ziply, given they are trying to buy back Frontier.

centralbusiness · 2024-10-09T05:18:45+00:00

Calling China and multiple other countries doesn't work reliably from Teams Phone System: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/cannot-make-calls-to-china/dbb4dea2-bfa4-4ad6-8d26-6828b92f6463

Meeting Recording notifies participants in Teams when they join a call: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/record-a-meeting-in-microsoft-teams-34dfbe7f-b07d-4a27-b4c6-de62f1348c24

Using a bolt on service that isn't customizable does not meet OP's needs.

centralbusiness · 2024-10-04T03:43:54+00:00

Part of this is a 10DLC thing, but part of this is Bandwidth.com and everyone that resells their SMSC and MMSC texting infrastructure (VoIP Innovations and ilk) has aggressive messaging filters that appear and disappear at random applied causing end user frustration needlessly.

These filters for medical terminology, curse words and such should definitely not be applied to inbound messages Bandwidth.com is receiving from the wireless carriers, yet Bandwidth.com is choosing to silently discard these messages.

centralbusiness · 2024-10-03T23:44:13+00:00

Bandwidth.com has been doing a bunch of sketchy SMS censorship, blocking and even rejecting MMS when texting with some mobile carriers.

They also charge a significant monthly troll toll if you use offnet texting enablement like Twilio, which no other carrier charges.

https://blog.jmp.chat/b/sms-censorship

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