the only problem you will have whilst travelling with the iaxy is that it supports only bandwidth hungry codecs. so if you are anywhere in the world where bandwidth is a problem, the iaxy is a nogo
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:54, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:35:46 -0700, Florin Andrei > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
