Victoria Free-Net Association (VIFA)
South Island Community Access Network (SICAN)

Internet Telephony Initiative — Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)

Internet telephones are
available at the following:

SICAN CAP sites:
Lake Cowichan
Honeymoon Bay
Pender Island
Ladysmith
Chemainus
Saltspring
Duncan
Saturna Island
Victoria

PCNA sites:
Whitehorse
Dawson Creek
Smithers
Prince Rupert
Tatlayoko Lake
Ashcroft
Kamloops
PCNA (more):
Vernon
Lumby
Powell River
Squamish
Sechelt
Kaslo
Edgewood
Courtenay
Penticton
Vancouver
Nanaimo
Maple Ridge
Chilliwack
Richmond
Delta
Abbotsford
Victoria
[Grandstream's BudgeTone 100 IP Telephone]

At these sites we have installed Grandstream BudgeTone 100 Internet telephones.

Telephone operation:

These phones are connected to the "Asterisk" PBX system in the Victoria Telecommunity Network. Other phones on this system may be called by dialing the IP phone number for that site.

Also any of the numbers assigned by the Free World Dialup organization in New York (fwd.pulver.com) may also be called by first dialing the prefix **393.

For most home and small business use, these phones should work as delivered just:

  1. connect them to your router or anywhere on your Local Area Network (LAN)
    and
  2. plug them into a power source.

If, however, you are behind a sophisticated institutional firewall, for example in a school, you will likely need the assistance of your local tech support person to assign your phone a static IP address, and supply you with the address of your gateway (router) and the address of your Domain Name System (DNS) server. These locations can be entered on the phone's keypad.

—Gareth Shearman

For assistance or more information, contact us as follows:

Victoria Free-Net Association
4252 Commerce Circle
Victoria, B.C. V8Z 4M2
shearman@victoria.tc.ca
VIFA Internet phone number: 2001
Free World Dialup number: 19015
Telus phone number: (250) 479-2851


Sican Network phones
PCNA Network phones