Be careful with some of the examples, or guidelines, which you see in the FreePBX configuration screens.
For example, if you add a new SIP extension, fields like "User Extension" and "Display Name" are empty, so you can fill them in with whatever you want.
When you go to set up a Trunk, however (either SIP or IAX), you'll find a "PEER Details" (I have no idea why the word peer is written in all capitals) window, which contains:
host=***provider ip address*** username=***userid*** secret=***password*** type=peer
Do not think that you just need to replace "provider ip address" (and no, I do not know why the abbreviation IP is not in capitals here) with the provider's IP address.
The asterisks are there to confuse you, and you must replace "***provider ip address***" with the provider's IP address.
So, correct:
host=192.0.2.42 username=Cu5t0m3rID secret=53cr3tp455w0rd type=peer
Incorrect:
host=***192.0.2.42*** username=***Cu5t0m3rID*** secret=***53cr3tp455w0rd*** type=peer
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