[Gllug] skype

[Andrew Farnsworth]

Doug Winter wrote:

> Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
>> Given the completely closed and secretive nature of the protocol and
>> product, how can you be confident that the network will scale with
>> growth?  "Supernodes" are supposed to help it scale but a) how far up
>
>
> I use skype, and love it.  And I don't care really if it doesn't 
> scale. - if it stops working I'll use something else.
>
> Obviously I'd love to use something free, but it has to be something 
> my mum can use, and so far Skype is the only option on that front.  My 
> mum loves Skype too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug.
>
Doug,
  Try this with you mum:

Mum has "the hot phone" which is connected to an SPA-1000/2000 and her 
broadband net connection.  It is configured to connect across the 
internet to your Asterisk server and log in.

You have an Asterisk Server and another SPA-1000/2000 setup to connect 
to you Asterisk server.  You set your up so that it is able to dial out 
anywhere and you set up hers so that she picks up the phone, hits "1" 
and your phone rings... if you don't answer your phone in 3 rings, it 
tries your mobile while your mum keeps hearing rings.  If still no 
answer, voice mail.

You can pick up your phone, dial "2" (or whatever) and your mum's phone 
rings and she knows it is you as it is the only person who can call her 
on it.

If you travel, get another SPA-1000 and take it with you or use a 
Soft-Phone (though they all suck) this gives you the ability for anyone 
to ring your home number and get your "mobile spa-1000" anywhere you 
have it hooked up, even behind a NAT firewall.

Doesn't get much easier for Mum than that.

Andrew Farnsworth

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