I use unlimitel with SIP and IAX. SIP is more painful than IAX, I think that's a pretty generally accepted fact.
I had a customer travelling to China so I got him a VP320I from X2N. I set it up with Unlimitel (you have to order an IAX account specifically) and it worked really well. My customer has plugged it in at a few hotels and offices and all but one have worked without tweaking. The one that didn't work was an office that uses a fairly complex private WAN with lots of firewalls throughout so I'm not really surprised. The phone is not nearly the same quality as an Aastra, Polycom or Cisco. It's a consumer device for sure. The price is very reasonable though. You can see it here: http://www.voipdepot.ca/index.php?main_page=product_info&manufacturers_id=6&products_id=26 I used the unlimited local plan from Unlimitel which included voicemail. That's probably not applicable to you if you're using it for overseas dialing. As always, mileage may vary but that's my experience for what it's worth. Dave On 12/13/05, Shuchit Velkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have been lurking on this mailing list for a bit, but have not had a > chance to really try anything myself yet. I eventually want to get > asterix installed at home. But as an initially step > I want to first just get my feet wet by getting a voip line and > hooking it up to a voip adaptor using SIP or IAX2. The main use would > be make cheap overseas calls to UK and India. > > I am looking at getting a DID from unlimitel.ca in the KW area. The > one thing that is confusing me after doing some research (googling, > etc), is how exactly does NAT impact the providers we have in Ontario. > voip-info and other sites left it as a general statement that you > might run into NAT'ing issues with SIP and IAX. > > So can anyone using unlimitel tell me what kind of NAT'ing issues to > expect with IAX2 and SIP and is the workaround as simple opening up a > port to the voip adaptor. > Also, what security implications does this have, ie. can the voip > adaptor be hacked since it is exposed on the Internet ? > -- David Donovan Consultant Fulcrum Solutions
