Favor Needed From Someone In Germany.

Stu · 03-06-2006, 15:22

I am trying to sign up for a free internet service in Germany that for sign up purposes wants to check my IP address to see if it is consistent with a German ISP. I was wondering if someone in Germany would be willing to help me out with the signup.

Thanks.

prion · 03-06-2006, 15:49

I would advice you to use www.anonymouse.org

Stu · 03-06-2006, 16:46

Good idea, but it blocks browers where cookies are blocked. I suppose I can do the old proxy trick, but need a refresher on that trick. I did it three years ago for a UK site.

Stu · 04-06-2006, 07:30

solved that problem, but the numbers they were handing out were Germany, 01801 (zum Ortstarif) numbers. I presume that this is like a UK 0845 number and not doing any favors handing it out.

VladS · 04-06-2006, 14:38

Calls to 01801 numbers are quite expensive.

Using a VPN and/or proxy would not help you, as Sipgate started running postal address verifications as part of their DID activation process.

Triband81 · 04-06-2006, 17:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stu

solved that problem, but the numbers they were handing out were Germany, 01801 (zum Ortstarif) numbers. I presume that this is like a UK 0845 number and not doing any favors handing it out.

That is correct...calls to 01801/3/5 numbers normally cost between 9 and 12 cents per minute.

Stu · 05-06-2006, 04:07

Can you explain this new process?

VladS · 05-06-2006, 04:31

My understanding is that they run some sort of basic credit check to verify residency.

I had a friend in Germany setup the account under his name and didn't have any problems to have the geographic DID routed to my Asterisk server in Canada.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 886 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Dubai (& Detroit) Country:	03-06-2006, 15:22 I am trying to sign up for a free internet service in Germany that for sign up purposes wants to check my IP address to see if it is consistent with a German ISP. I was wondering if someone in Germany would be willing to help me out with the signup. Thanks.

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prion (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 584 Join Date: 01 May 2006 Location: Greece Country:	03-06-2006, 15:49 I would advice you to use www.anonymouse.org

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 886 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Dubai (& Detroit) Country:	03-06-2006, 16:46 Good idea, but it blocks browers where cookies are blocked. I suppose I can do the old proxy trick, but need a refresher on that trick. I did it three years ago for a UK site.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 886 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Dubai (& Detroit) Country:	04-06-2006, 07:30 solved that problem, but the numbers they were handing out were Germany, 01801 (zum Ortstarif) numbers. I presume that this is like a UK 0845 number and not doing any favors handing it out.

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VladS (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 513 Join Date: 22 Jun 2004 Country:	04-06-2006, 14:38 Calls to 01801 numbers are quite expensive. Using a VPN and/or proxy would not help you, as Sipgate started running postal address verifications as part of their DID activation process. VladS Mobile Phones: Nokia E72-2 (3G/GSM/VoIP), Nokia E71-2 (3G/GSM/VoIP), Samsung BlackJack II (GSM/3G) Mobile Data Cards: Novatel MC950D, Huawei E220, ZTE MF668 Postpaid SIMs: CA: Fido - US: AT&T - FR: SFR Prepaid National SIMs: DE: Aldi, Fonic - AT: yesss! - RO: Orange, Vodafone - UK: O2 & T-Mobile - US: AT&T & T-Mobile Prepaid International SIMs: eKit, Sim4Travel Dead Prepaid SIMs: United Mobile +44, United Mobile +423, ICQSIM and 09

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 886 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Dubai (& Detroit) Country:	05-06-2006, 04:07 Can you explain this new process?

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VladS (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 513 Join Date: 22 Jun 2004 Country:	05-06-2006, 04:31 My understanding is that they run some sort of basic credit check to verify residency. I had a friend in Germany setup the account under his name and didn't have any problems to have the geographic DID routed to my Asterisk server in Canada. VladS Mobile Phones: Nokia E72-2 (3G/GSM/VoIP), Nokia E71-2 (3G/GSM/VoIP), Samsung BlackJack II (GSM/3G) Mobile Data Cards: Novatel MC950D, Huawei E220, ZTE MF668 Postpaid SIMs: CA: Fido - US: AT&T - FR: SFR Prepaid National SIMs: DE: Aldi, Fonic - AT: yesss! - RO: Orange, Vodafone - UK: O2 & T-Mobile - US: AT&T & T-Mobile Prepaid International SIMs: eKit, Sim4Travel Dead Prepaid SIMs: United Mobile +44, United Mobile +423, ICQSIM and 09