On Sun, 31 May 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 06:04, Derek Smithies wrote:
The most surefire way of fixing this?
Use skype.
Seriously, you can fiddle for hours getting this to work.
Except that Skype is proprietary and closed. SIP is the Right Answer, so
it's worth persevering.
Yes, you are right in one sense..
Picture yourself in a hotel, far away from home, and keen to ring the wife
and family. A skype call will (well, most often) get through the various
firewalls in the way and get through. This has huge WAF.
That you can get through to home and talk increases the chance that you
will get her acceptance for the next trip away.
Yes, you can fiddle with sip like phones. However, in my jaundiced
experience, they are filled with gobbledygoodk like words that
make them hard to setup. Look at Barry's problems. He is not a voip
developer, but he is capable enough to do many linux like things.
And he had trouble getting Ekiga to work.
Skype, on the other hand, is sufficiently easy to setup that people with
the minimum of computer skills can make voip calls.
It is only on linux that Skype gets hard to setup - mainly cause of the
"Welcome to the jungle phenomenon" talked about on slashdot recently.
Which was (effectively): linux sound is a mess.
Derek.
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