[Gllug] skype

[Robert P. McKenzie]

Doug Winter wrote:

> Robert P. McKenzie wrote:
> 
>> I've recently installed Asterisk at home and have been using that with 
>> great success.  Free outbound calls to PSTN's, my mom and other 
>> friends use it to chat with me using a nice simple IAX/SIP Client 
>> (firefly), my mom can either dial my local extension if I'm online, if 
>> not she can outdial to my office or home number for free from Canada.  
>> The server sure isn't nan-approved for setup, but the client is dead 
>> easy.
> 
> 
> The biggest issue with other phone services is NAT.  SIP and NAT don't 
> mix too well, and now that everyone is sitting on a NAT network it can 
> be tricky to get going.  If I'm going to speak to my mum on this thing 
> it has to be *very* easy to get working :)

I haven't had any problems with SIP and I use NAT at home.  It's working pretty 
well.  I do tend to use IAX2 when possible, it's much better then SIP.

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