Adding in Free World Dialup

Adding in Free World Dialup

(13 Feb 2008) - Free World Dialup (also known as "FWD") is a free service that allows you to use a SIP phone or SIP/IAX PBX to call 600K+ subscribers in the FWD network or to connect users in almost 100 other VoIP networks.

Installation is simple:

1. Go here. Click on the big green button, near the center of the screen, and then find and click on "Quick Start Guide".
2. Read through the Quick Start Guide and click on the link in step 2.
3. Fill out the form. Anywhere from 20 minutes to a few days later, you should receive an email notifying of your new FWD number.
4. While you're waiting for your new number, read this page and make the appropriate changes to your Asterisk config files. Once you receive the email, you should be able to access FWD.

If you included the 393 extensions from the suggested config, you can dial any number within FWD by using that prefix. For those that didn't pay too close attention to what they were cut&pasting, here's the example from FWD:

exten => _393.,1,SetCallerId,${FWDCIDNAME}
exten => _393.,2,Dial(IAX2/${FWDNUMBER}:${FWDPASSWORD}@iax2.fwdnet.net/${EXTEN:3},60,r)
exten => _393.,3,Congestion

Think of 393 as an area code, where you dial it to access numbers in FWD rather than the State of Florida. By dialing 393612, you connect to FWD automated time service (the IVR reads you the current date and time). "_393." means "393 followed by any other numbers" and "/${EXTEN:3}" means calculate the remote extension number starting with the 3rd digit (remember, programmers start counting with "0" so there is a 0th digit).

Here are some other useful (or not) numbers within FWD:

511	Conference Bridge
613	Echo Test (Test quality/latency of your connection)
614	Milliwatt test (For true technical types)
615	Voxeo Tone test (Enter '#' to try a different tone)
958	Number Check
514	FWD Coffee House Conference Bridge
55555	Welcome Line Conference Bridge

FWD also maintains a list of peer providers to which you can connect from FWD for free.

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