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Fellow VOIPer's

Have any of you tested to see what happens to incoming calls when the power
or the net is down. I assumed during a power or network outage incoming
calls would roll-over to voice mail. When I powered down my modem and
dialed in from a POTS line, it resulted in a long period (~19 secs) of
dead-line, eventually followed by the 'all circuits' busy tone.

Below is a note to tech support and thier response. [They are not correct
about the 'busy signal' which is different then an the 'all circuits busy'
tone.]

If you haven't already tested it, give it a try and share the results with
the rest of us. As you can see below I'm using Sunrocket.

Thanks

Bob


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Dear Sunrocket

I just powered down my modem and dialed in from a POTS line. It resulted in
a long period (~19 secs) of dead-line, eventually followed by the 'all
circuits' busy tone.

To me this is a big deal. I really expected to be collecting voice mail
during a network service outage. Remember once the network is down it's
too late enable the 'Do Not Disturb' feature.

Is there a fix for this? Do all VOIP products have this weakness?


----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Wont trip to Voice Mail on outages [MSV2005082700000142]


Hi,

Unfortunately, with our service, in an instance where there is a network or
power outage, the phone call will not go to voicemail. The person calling
you will just get a busy tone. I do apologize for this inconvienence.

Thank you,

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NNTP wrote:




> Fellow VOIPer's

> Have any of you tested to see what happens to incoming calls when the
> power
> or the net is down. I assumed during a power or network outage incoming

> calls would roll-over to voice mail. When I powered down my modem and
> dialed in from a POTS line, it resulted in a long period (~19 secs) of
> dead-line, eventually followed by the 'all circuits' busy tone.

This problem is not specific to VoIP only. With ANY circuit, if there is
no path to the premise equipment for any reason, the call is going to be
lost if not forwarded to the central office-side voice mail. If you have
VM service with your VoIP package, what I would do is to set it up to pick
up after 5-6 rings with your private switch or auto-answering machine
picking it up after 3-4. This way normally all calls will be answered at
your locations, and when there is an interruption, they will be answered
at the central office. You just have to remember to check your messages
there every so often or enable e-mail notifications of sorts (depends on
your provider).

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I spoke with a customer service rep the other day, and he said that
SunRocket is developing a failover system that will hopefully be up and
running by the fall. I believe it will go to voicemail right now after
being down for either 30 or 60 minutes, not sure.

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I have VM set up. If I use the voip phone and call myself it goes to VM
immediately. During network outage there is no ringing, just dead air for
~19 sec




> Fellow VOIPer's

> Have any of you tested to see what happens to incoming calls when the
> power
> or the net is down. I assumed during a power or network outage incoming

> calls would roll-over to voice mail. When I powered down my modem and
> dialed in from a POTS line, it resulted in a long period (~19 secs) of
> dead-line, eventually followed by the 'all circuits' busy tone.

This problem is not specific to VoIP only. With ANY circuit, if there is
no path to the premise equipment for any reason, the call is going to be
lost if not forwarded to the central office-side voice mail. If you have
VM service with your VoIP package, what I would do is to set it up to pick
up after 5-6 rings with your private switch or auto-answering machine
picking it up after 3-4. This way normally all calls will be answered at
your locations, and when there is an interruption, they will be answered
at the central office. You just have to remember to check your messages
there every so often or enable e-mail notifications of sorts (depends on
your provider).

--
Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD
http://www.cabling-design.com
Cabling Forum, color codes, pinouts and other useful resources for
premises cabling users and pros
http://www.cabling-design.com/homecabling
Residential Cabling Guide
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In message <L6FQe.230543$0_.189903@fe04.news.easynews.com>
info_at_cabling-design_dot_com@foo.com (Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com))
wrote:

>NNTP wrote:
>
>
>
>
>> Fellow VOIPer's
>
>> Have any of you tested to see what happens to incoming calls when the
>> power
>> or the net is down. I assumed during a power or network outage incoming
>
>> calls would roll-over to voice mail. When I powered down my modem and
>> dialed in from a POTS line, it resulted in a long period (~19 secs) of
>> dead-line, eventually followed by the 'all circuits' busy tone.
>
>This problem is not specific to VoIP only. With ANY circuit, if there is
>no path to the premise equipment for any reason, the call is going to be
>lost if not forwarded to the central office-side voice mail. If you have
>VM service with your VoIP package, what I would do is to set it up to pick
>up after 5-6 rings with your private switch or auto-answering machine
>picking it up after 3-4. This way normally all calls will be answered at
>your locations, and when there is an interruption, they will be answered
>at the central office. You just have to remember to check your messages
>there every so often or enable e-mail notifications of sorts (depends on
>your provider).

Sure, but the different with some VoIP implementations is that if the
premise equipment becomes unavailable, not all VoIP implementations
route calls to voicemail even if the voicemail is handled by the switch.

This is one thing Vonage did right, if you have call forwarding enabled
then your calls go there, otherwise they go to your "network
availability number", or lastly, they go to your Vonage voicemail.

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In message <bTPQe.4729$dm.4267@lakeread03> " Bob Alan" <t5@soalex.us>
wrote:

>When you system is config'd to have call ring a few time before WM, have you
>actually tried to power down the modem then call on a different phone?

Yes, I've actually pressed "dial" on my cell at the same moment I pulled
the plug (The plug was pulled electronically -- I turned off Vonage's
switch port), the call sat in silence for 5 seconds or so, then was
transferred.

I don't recall if it was transferred to voicemail or to my network
availability number, but it wasn't "lost"

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