I need a cheap simple adaptor for analog phones to use with Asterisk. It should be some kind of "configure and forget" type of device, to use at the office, or just throw it in a road warrior's bag and use it while travelling, to call back to the "mothership". I can't decide between iaxy and sipura. Can you guys help? Which one would you use? (and why?) I feel that iaxy might have an advantage while piercing through NAT firewalls (at hotels and such), because of IAX, but i could be wrong. Or can you recommend something else? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
Florin Andrei wrote:>I need a cheap simple adaptor for analog phones to use with Asterisk. It >should be some kind of "configure and forget" type of device, to use at >the office, or just throw it in a road warrior's bag and use it while >travelling, to call back to the "mothership". >I can't decide between iaxy and sipura. Can you guys help? Which one >would you use? (and why?) >I feel that iaxy might have an advantage while piercing through NAT >firewalls (at hotels and such), because of IAX, but i could be wrong. > >Or can you recommend something else? > > >For configure and forget, I would not leave home w/out my IAXy.
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:35:46 -0700, Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org> wrote:> I need a cheap simple adaptor for analog phones to use with Asterisk. It > should be some kind of "configure and forget" type of device, to use at > the office, or just throw it in a road warrior's bag and use it while > travelling, to call back to the "mothership"For travelling, no SIP based device will be "configure and forget". Perhaps if you travel only within the US, you may be lucky most of the time but pretty much anywhere else where IP addresses are scarce you will be out of luck. I have been travelling a lot on all inhabited continents, using hotel provided internet connections, internet cafes, client's office LANs, hotspots in public places, cafes, airports etc etc. The most common experience is "SIP doesn't work at all" and the second most common experience is "SIP only works after messing around a lot". Even if you get SIP to work, you are likely to spend so much time on fiddling with settings that it has a negative impact on your schedule. I haven't used an IAXy yet but I run Asterisk on my Powerbook and use IAX to connect back to my company's Asterisk server. That works all the time and is "configure and forget". I assume it will be the same when using an IAXy. The only situation I can think of where the IAXy alone will not work is with hotspots that require you to log in from a web browser in order to activate the service, probably setting a cookie or something like that. In this case you would need to run your IAXy on a NAT provided by your notebook because the hotspot will not give you access unless it sees the cookie or the MAC address of the machine that was used to first sign in. hope this helps regards benjk -- Sunrise Telephone Systems, 9F Shibuya Daikyo Bldg., 1-13-5 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. NB: Spam filters in place. Messages unrelated to the * mailing lists may get trashed.
At 09:54 PM 9/7/2004 +0900, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists <benjk.on.asterisk.ml@gmail.com> wrote:>For travelling, no SIP based device will be "configure and forget". >Perhaps if you travel only within the US, you may be lucky most of the >time but pretty much anywhere else where IP addresses are scarce you >will be out of luck. > >I have been travelling a lot on all inhabited continents, using hotel >provided internet connections, internet cafes, client's office LANs, >hotspots in public places, cafes, airports etc etc. > >The most common experience is "SIP doesn't work at all" and the second >most common experience is "SIP only works after messing around a lot".What about sip softphones that use STUN? I am especially interested in UK because my daughter is going to study in London. Regards, John