Does anyone here use iconnect regularly with Asterisk? If so, what do you think of its reliability and quality? I used up my 10 free minutes just getting it to work. By the end it was working, but I found that (1) many calls did not connect, due to a variety of errors reported by them (service unavailable and such) and (2) when I did connect, I could be heard but I could not hear the person I was talking to. I would appreciate hearing any experiences. Thanks!
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 03:51, Jim Archer wrote:> Does anyone here use iconnect regularly with Asterisk? If so, what do you > think of its reliability and quality? I used up my 10 free minutes just > getting it to work. > > By the end it was working, but I found that (1) many calls did not connect, > due to a variety of errors reported by them (service unavailable and such) > and (2) when I did connect, I could be heard but I could not hear the > person I was talking to. > > I would appreciate hearing any experiences.I have had no problems with call quality, but right now inbound calling from them is having an issue with completing the call through to asterisk. Call quality wise though, no, I've been very happy with it. -- William Walsh <william@wxw.org> Jabber: william@wxw.biz
Iconnect uses codecs g723 and g711 that can be configured for each account (you can change them by the 7777 prefix) With their dialer and g723 I can here just fine (I have a 64k broadband connection). With their dialer and g711 the quality suffers greatly. With * and GSM I cannot here anything (and don?t know if they can here me). The call gets logged on iconnect?s CDR. Upon looking at the SIP debug everything appears just fine, but again, I cannot hear anything. With * and ulaw or mlaw I can hear the first 5 secs and nothing else. I have tried FWD (not going through *) which uses g711 and I have had nor problem whatsoever. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Archer" <jim@archer.net> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:51 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] iconnect quality?> Does anyone here use iconnect regularly with Asterisk? If so, what do you > think of its reliability and quality? I used up my 10 free minutes just > getting it to work. > > By the end it was working, but I found that (1) many calls did notconnect,> due to a variety of errors reported by them (service unavailable and such) > and (2) when I did connect, I could be heard but I could not hear the > person I was talking to. > > I would appreciate hearing any experiences. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
--On Monday, March 10, 2003 4:47 PM -0300 Dan Fernandez <danfernandez00@hotmail.com> wrote:> Iconnect uses codecs g723 and g711 that can be configured for each account > (you can change them by the 7777 prefix)I tried adding the 7777 in front of a number and it reliably generates error "488 invalid media."
Jim,
I changed my extensions entry for iconnect to:
exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,1,Dial,SIP/7777${EXTEN}@iconnecthere
and my calls work fine with ulaw. I am calling from a linejack card
with format=ulaw and SIP with allow=ulaw.
Gregg
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:01, Jim Archer wrote:> --On Monday, March 10, 2003 4:47 PM -0300 Dan Fernandez
> <danfernandez00@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Iconnect uses codecs g723 and g711 that can be configured for each
account
> > (you can change them by the 7777 prefix)
>
> I tried adding the 7777 in front of a number and it reliably generates
> error "488 invalid media."
>
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Hi Greg and thanks very much... A few questions... First, regarding the 7777 prefix, it seemed that this acts as a toggle, switching from the one codec to the other. But how do I set which me system uses by default? Or does iconnect always use the high bandwidth one by default (such that the 7777 always switches to the low bandwidth one)? Next, I am still struggling to understand the SIP options and what goes where. Could you please tell me where the format command goes? Is this an option on the channel? I thing the allow goes in sip.conf. Finally, does this have any impact on the problem where the person called can not be heard? Thanks!!! Jim --On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:35 PM -0500 Gregg Lebovitz <gregg@lebovitz.net> wrote:> Jim, > > I changed my extensions entry for iconnect to: > > exten => _1XXXXXXXXXX,1,Dial,SIP/7777${EXTEN}@iconnecthere > > and my calls work fine with ulaw. I am calling from a linejack card > with format=ulaw and SIP with allow=ulaw. > > Gregg > > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:01, Jim Archer wrote: >> --On Monday, March 10, 2003 4:47 PM -0300 Dan Fernandez >> <danfernandez00@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Iconnect uses codecs g723 and g711 that can be configured for each >> > account (you can change them by the 7777 prefix) >> >> I tried adding the 7777 in front of a number and it reliably generates >> error "488 invalid media." >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Asterisk-Users mailing list >> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users