Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Zitat von A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk: It will be in the /etc/asterisk/*.conf file for the appropriate calling technology. So if the calls are going over a SIP trunk, it will be in sip.conf . You want disallow=all allow=alaw There probably will be some other allow= lines; just

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 06 Jul 2015, Luca Bertoncello wrote: Zitat von A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk: Yes. You should definitely be using A-law for calls to the Outside World. Well, I wanted to change these settings, but I'm not sure, where I have to do that... I think in the users.conf,

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 06 Jul 2015, Luca Bertoncello wrote: Well, but for voice quality, which codec is better? alaw or gsm? A-law is better for voice quality (sorry, thought my original explanation was obvious). But note that if the destination is a mobile phone, GSM will be used anyway, at least for

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Zitat von A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk: Yes. You should definitely be using A-law for calls to the Outside World. If you use a different codec, then your telephone company will either transcode it for you (if it is one they understand) or just block the call (if not). Even

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread A J Stiles
On Sunday 05 Jul 2015, Luca Bertoncello wrote: Hi list! I noticed that when the phone of my wife calls the gsm codec will be used, but if someone calls the phone, alaw will be used: Could someone explain me why? Second question: I think, ulaw/alaw are better then gsm, isn't it? If so, how

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Zitat von A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk: On Monday 06 Jul 2015, Luca Bertoncello wrote: Well, but for voice quality, which codec is better? alaw or gsm? A-law is better for voice quality (sorry, thought my original explanation was obvious). But note that if the destination is

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Zitat von A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk: Yes. You should definitely be using A-law for calls to the Outside World. Well, I wanted to change these settings, but I'm not sure, where I have to do that... I think in the users.conf, but I think, the allow keywords is for the

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Zitat von A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk: Hi, GSM is the native codec used for calls to mobile phones; it uses lossy compression to achieve a low bit rate. A-law is the native codec used by physical exchanges on the land line network (PSTN and ISDN). It is non-lossy. It works by

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-06 Thread A J Stiles
On Monday 06 Jul 2015, Luca Bertoncello wrote: So, I think, I should try to force the using of alaw for this phone, is it right? Usually we don't call mobile phones from our landline... Yes. You should definitely be using A-law for calls to the Outside World. If you use a different codec,

Re: [asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-05 Thread Satskiy.a
Hi Luca Y need to check your wifes codec priority list -seems to be GSM on the first place. Luca Bertoncello lucab...@lucabert.de wrote: Hi list! I noticed that when the phone of my wife calls the gsm codec will be used, but if someone calls the phone, alaw will be used: 004935

[asterisk-users] Choosing codecs

2015-07-05 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Hi list! I noticed that when the phone of my wife calls the gsm codec will be used, but if someone calls the phone, alaw will be used: 004935 calls 0049351222: OpenWrt*CLI sip show channels Peer User/ANR Call ID Format Hold Last Message