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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| What phone/system do I need for clear sound? | 1/8/2012 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I am a small, one-person business, and there does not seem to be a telephone on the (home) market ... A: Plantronics are by far the best headsets you can buy. You really cant go wrong with any of their ... | ||
| What phone/system do I need for clear sound? | 1/8/2012 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I am a small, one-person business, and there does not seem to be a telephone on the (home) market ... A: There is a huge difference between a consumer voice device and business voice device. The quality ... | ||
| QOS sore | 1/3/2012 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: ... i dono i am asking relevent question for you...i dont have choice.. can you tell me the direct ... A: My experience is in Voice applications (VoIP). This field uses a Rating Factor (R-factor) to measure ... | ||
| Broadband Voice Gateways | 10/5/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I was wondering if the broadband voice gateways that you receive from a VOiP provider are carrier ... A: If you have the administrator password and can get into the box to change its settings then you have ... | ||
| playing counter strike online | 9/6/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: how can i play counter strike online with my friend online when he has a broadband internet ... A: If you have internet through a LAN connection, you are probably in an office or at school or ... | ||
| IP Telephony | 8/14/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Can an individual establish a home business by providing IP telephony services? If so where would ... A: No. You could never compete with the established VoIP services out on the market. The investment is ... | ||
| Hp won't receive faxes with digital voice | 7/27/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I have an Hp all in one C7250. We just recently switched to digital voice(Verizon) and the fax will ... A: It sounds like your fax machine was configured for distinctive ringing at one point. On your old ... | ||
| Nec Dterm 80 | 7/18/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Speaker phone. I push the mic. button and the light comes on, but the mic. doesn't activate. Speaker ... A: Here is the manual: http://www.tlcomminc.com/manuals/nec/IPKIIMultilineTelephone.pdf I can't find ... | ||
| Nec Dterm 80 | 7/18/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Speaker phone. I push the mic. button and the light comes on, but the mic. doesn't activate. Speaker ... A: The user manual says: Activate the hands-free feature of your phone by first pushing the "Feature" ... | ||
| Nec Dterm 80 | 7/15/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Speaker phone. I push the mic. button and the light comes on, but the mic. doesn't activate. Speaker ... A: What kind of phones are you using. Many phones have a feature called "Auto Listen". That is like ... | ||
| IP Telephony on Blackberry | 6/23/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: It is feasible to connect the blackberry to the the IP Telephony system? A: Blackberry have a deal with the network carriers that they will not permit voice traffic over the ... | ||
| Question on Fiber Optics | 6/14/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I wish to setup a LAN/Voice in a 20 storey building. If I need a fiber optic backbone for both data ... A: What kind of phones and pabx do you have? Do you know the make? Do you know which protocol the ... | ||
| Question on Fiber Optics | 6/10/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I wish to setup a LAN/Voice in a 20 storey building. If I need a fiber optic backbone for both data ... A: If you want to do VoIP you will need IP phones and an IP PBX. The phones then register with the IP ... | ||
| Question on Fiber Optics | 6/6/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I wish to setup a LAN/Voice in a 20 storey building. If I need a fiber optic backbone for both data ... A: Normally your fiber optic backbone should terminate to a Layer 2/3 switch on each floor. From there ... | ||
| mobile voip | 5/3/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Are there any voip mobile blackberry apps that use data instead of cell phone minutes? I have done ... A: I'm sorry but I am not aware of one. The carrier that Blackberry has gone with is not permitting ... | ||
| E1 lines vs ADSL | 4/13/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: would you be able to explain whether there is a link between an E1 line and ADSL. I always thought ... A: E1 lines are "old" technology. They basically bundle 32 analog lines together to provide greater ... | ||
| Faxing | 3/25/2011 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I saw your answers to someone having sudden trouble with faxing via cablevision phone. I can fax ... A: All Apple Internal Modems are fax modems. If your Mac came with an internal modem, you've got a fax ... | ||
| Be able to move around while SKYPE-ing | 12/31/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: First of all, thank you very much for volunteering on this site and helping out those of us who may ... A: Sorry for the delay. I was on vacation. First you need to find out if you have bluetooth on your ... | ||
| proxy IP | 12/8/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Is it possible for two different computers to have the same IP when both are using the same Internet ... A: Both computers must have different IPs on the private network behind the proxy if they are to be ... | ||
| develop an 3g application | 12/1/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Need your inputs and help , whats is the enviornment required to develop a 3g application , i want ... A: What platform do you want your application to run on (iPhone, Windows-PC, Android, Java, etc?) ... | ||
| How to cancel background noise | 11/24/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I moved from the U.S. to a third world country three years ago. I'm still working with U.S. clients, ... A: Wow this is a tricky one. Background noise that is not constant is hard to filter out. I would be ... | ||
| Virtual numbers | 11/22/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I would like to create and own a set of virtual numbers on the Internet. These numbers would be then ... A: Welcome to the world of VoIP. This is exactly one of the great benefits of using an IP based ... | ||
| Polycom 601 and Gizmo5 or Google Voice | 11/16/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I work from a home office and just bought a Polycom 601 and it connected fine but I realize I need ... A: Take a look at my post on this some time ago. ... | ||
| skype | 10/26/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Can you tell me, is it possible to skype with someone without their knowing my skype address? ... A: The person generally will not know your "address" if you mean IP-Address. However, without a valid ... | ||
| Mobile phone voip | 10/17/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I like to know if I can make voip calls from any mobile phone, and how do I have to go about it? ... A: Newer smart phones such as the iPhone allow you to download free applications that can do voice over ... | ||
| Screen Sharing | 9/2/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: My friends and I are desperately searching for a way to screen share with more than just one person ... A: Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation. There are a few applications out there to do what you ... | ||
| tech question about phone | 8/30/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: im trying to call someone and the phone never rings it just goes silent and then the dial tone comes ... A: It could mean any number of things. Without more detailed information it is hard to be conclusive. ... | ||
| IP Camera | 7/27/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I hope I selected the right area/expert to ask this question! Hopefully you can help. It is probably ... A: Thats very possible that it will not work with gmail. At this point you could try using FTP or the ... | ||
| IP Camera | 7/26/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I hope I selected the right area/expert to ask this question! Hopefully you can help. It is probably ... A: OK the camera gives you lots of options to choose from. Looks a really good buy. Lets begin with the ... | ||
| IP Camera | 7/26/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I hope I selected the right area/expert to ask this question! Hopefully you can help. It is probably ... A: Can you please tell me the make and model of the camera you are using? I can look and see if I can ... | ||
| STUN protocol | 7/21/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Good Afternoon. We make a product Alpha Five www.alphasoftware.com that lets people build web ... A: Unfortunately I am totally booked out for quite some time so I can not provide the consulting help ... | ||
| Networks | 7/15/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: 1)Chat messengers use connection-oriented or connectionless service? 2)Why do real time ... A: Chat clients generally use connection oriented protocols such as TCP. This is because, text and ... | ||
| Making a call | 4/23/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Is it possible to have my desktop call or text my cell phone based on a trigger set by software on ... A: Yes, this would be possible providing you can get your excel table to trigger on the event you want ... | ||
| Cisco VoIP | 4/15/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: have a fault where a Cisco phone is Call forwarding ALL calls without the user pressing the CFwdALL ... A: Are you quite sure it is the phone that is sending the forward request and not the server it is ... | ||
| SIPP Stress Testing | 4/10/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Is there any way to give multiple DTMF input to SIPP while stress testing Asterisk ? A: This is done by first recording the tones you want to send using wireshark to a pcap file. This file ... | ||
| FRITZbox and FREEbox with SIP GIZMO | 3/14/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: since you are in Germany I assume that you are familiar with AVM FRITZbox. I use their model WLAN ... A: sorry for the delay, I was out for a few days. The problem is most likely with your freebox from ... | ||
| Microsoft Phone Dialer | 2/24/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: I want to use phone dialer in windows xp as a software for internet to phone calls but i don't know ... A: The phone dialer was primarily designed to work with a phone line using a modem card. Later on it ... | ||
| Not knowing what's true or false | 2/3/2010 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Do affiliates need to have a website for link cloaking software to work when they send prospects ... A: Yes because it has many advantages. Embedded within each html email, you can have tags that download ... | ||
| VOIP vs. PBX Systems | 12/8/2009 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: Mr. Magill, Thank you for your time and consideration. I am a high school teacher in a district of ... A: Yes, you could easily put a VoIP based system in place in parallel to the existing TDM service ... | ||
| Calculating Circuit Utilization | 11/25/2009 | Gerry Magill |
| Q: This is my first post to you. I have went through your profile and was totally convinced to ask you ... A: Sorry for the delay. I was on vacation. You have 3 x E1 physical capacity. This means you have 3 x ... | ||
Gerry Magill
Top Expert on this page
Expertise
I am a Software Architect employed by a large multi-national communications company providing VoIP and tradtional TDM communications to Enterprise customers.
Experience
Past/Present clients
IBM, SBS, Siemens, KPMG, Bank Berlin, Commerzbank
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