I guess I could do a talk on the client-side voip stuff, but it would be best coordinated perhaps with someone doing a server(switch) talk the same month?<div><br></div><div>Anyway, the below was supposed to go to the list. :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Martyn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Carpenter</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk">david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: 24 May 2010 08:01<br>Subject: Re: [Bradford] VOIP Investigations<br>To: Martyn Ranyard <<a href="mailto:ranyardm@gmail.com">ranyardm@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>Thanks for that Martin.<br>
<br>
Y'know me, people mention phones and I glaze over, but all this SIP/VoIP<br>
stuff is pretty interesting.<br>
<br>
Is the basis of a talk/meeting soon? I know other people are into this<br>
and setting up asterix systems etc. I'd be interested in 'phones' for<br>
home users - 'phones' if you're coming off windows onto Linux, and I<br>
guess people might also be interested in business solutions...<br>
<br>
Any one want to pick this up?<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
David<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 10:24 +0100, Martyn Ranyard wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
><br>
> I thought I'd put together a quick email to the lists to chat about<br>
> my recent experiences with SIP and VOIP.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I really like the idea of having a SIP system (freeswitch or asterix<br>
> etc.) and having a uk geographical number that resolves to it (ideally<br>
> 01274, but not essential), but what I don't like is the idea of paying<br>
> through the nose for said number. So I started researching VOIP<br>
> providers to see if I could find one that works and gives a UK<br>
> geographical number at low cost.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Imagine my surprise when I found <a href="http://sipgate.co.uk" target="_blank">sipgate.co.uk</a> that not only<br>
> provides a working SIP system (albeit with very little documentation,<br>
> as they're aimed at having a hardware phone) but provides a free<br>
> geographical number also.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Now, for basic purposes I don't really want to have to set up a full<br>
> switch yet, so I started looking at the softphone options. I use a<br>
> ubuntu derivitive that is based on 10.4 so I'm pretty up-to-date and I<br>
> use Gnome at the desktop fwiw. Here's a round-up of what I tried :<br>
><br>
><br>
> Ekiga : Obviously the first choice is Ekiga as it is prolific and<br>
> available easily. Unfortunately I was getting hangs whenever I<br>
> attempted to connect to a number on Ekiga. So I dropped Ekiga and<br>
> tried Twinkle next. Later I realised these hangs were pulseaudio/alsa<br>
> related, so this is an option, but only if run via pasuspender, which<br>
> for day-to-day use is pretty poor.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Twinkle : the SIP phone that uses the telepathy stack, sort of<br>
> Empathy's SIP phone. This too had hangs on connect/disconnect.<br>
><br>
><br>
> X-lite for Linux : Ugly as it was I instantly realised it would not be<br>
> pulseaudio aware so used pasuspender and it worked right away.<br>
> However I don't like closed-source binary-only software running<br>
> constantly on my machines, so next up, I picked up my android phone.<br>
><br>
><br>
> SipDroid (Android) : installed SIPDroid and followed the guide<br>
> at <a href="http://www.hutsby.net/2010/03/how-to-sipgate-and-sipdroid.html" target="_blank">http://www.hutsby.net/2010/03/how-to-sipgate-and-sipdroid.html</a> .<br>
> To my joy and amazement it worked first time!<br>
><br>
><br>
> I also looked at kphone but it has even less options than Ekiga and<br>
> just "didn't work" either.<br>
><br>
><br>
> So it appears the softphone situation on Linux is rather dire. I<br>
> also tried Gizmo but although that appeared to work (I think my<br>
> pulseaudio has gotten messed up and I need a reboot), you need a<br>
> pre-existing gizmo account to allow the sipphone part of it to work,<br>
> and registrations are closed.<br>
><br>
><br>
> There's also one thing I wanted to mention that I found rather<br>
> useful for people wanting to use SIP for business -<br>
> <a href="http://switchboardfree.co.uk" target="_blank">switchboardfree.co.uk</a> - two 0844/0843 numbers sans subscription that<br>
> can be directed to a geographical number with full call waiting,<br>
> analytics and other good stuff for free.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Anyway, that's enough rambling for now, just thought I'd share my<br>
> experiences.<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Martynfun -<br>
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