Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: What you are saying seems impossible and makes no sense unless the router is assigning a public IP or is SIP aware and knows how to read the routing data contained inside the SIP packets, and none of the consumer routers are

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: [...] Yes, I have had no problems with Grandstream first gen ATAs, configured with server and credentials and shipped off, they just work. We use the HT-286, the server is on a public IP the nat setting on

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 02/29/2012 08:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: We use the HT-286, the server is on a public IP the nat setting on asterisk is set to yes and without port re-direction the ATAs have never connected from a private network, so I honestly find this SIP plug and play very hard to believe. But if it

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Kevin P. Fleming kpflem...@digium.com wrote: On 02/29/2012 08:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: [...] The number of 'plain' SIP endpoints deployed behind consumer-grade NAT devices talking to Asterisk servers on public IP addresses is in the millions, if not the

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 02/29/2012 09:25 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Kevin P. Flemingkpflem...@digium.com wrote: On 02/29/2012 08:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: [...] The number of 'plain' SIP endpoints deployed behind consumer-grade NAT devices talking to Asterisk servers on

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: [...] Yes, I have had no problems with Grandstream first gen ATAs, configured with server and credentials and shipped off, they just

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Kevin P. Fleming kpflem...@digium.com wrote: Certainly there are plenty of examples of SIP endpoints working poorly behind NAT devices, and replacing that endpoint with an IAX2 endpoint curing the symptoms. Invariably, this is caused by the fact that the NAT

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Kevin P. Fleming kpflem...@digium.comwrote: On 02/29/2012 08:22 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: We use the HT-286, the server is on a public IP the nat setting on asterisk is set to yes and without port re-direction the ATAs have never connected from a private

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: Agreed with one exception, the endpoint behind the NAT DOES need to be setup correctly to keep the router from seeing inbound traffic to the device as unsolicited and drop it.  That is a function of the router but

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: Agreed with one exception, the endpoint behind the NAT DOES need to be setup correctly to keep the router from seeing inbound

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: So you turned it off on the phones but use it on the Asterisk side? Do you set a value or just use qualify=yes? Yes, just as I said, just qualify=yes. Did you submit a bug report?  If it is easy to reproduce

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Troy Telford
On 2012-02-28 21:22:44 +, Kevin P. Fleming said: On 02/28/2012 03:08 PM, Troy Telford wrote: [myprovider] type=friend username= secret= context=somecontext host=provider_server qualify=1000 disallow=all allow=g729 allow=ulaw auth=md5,rsa requirecalltoken=yes trunk=yes A serious bug with

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 02/29/2012 11:35 AM, Troy Telford wrote: On 2012-02-28 21:22:44 +, Kevin P. Fleming said: On 02/28/2012 03:08 PM, Troy Telford wrote: [myprovider] type=friend username= secret= context=somecontext host=provider_server qualify=1000 disallow=all allow=g729 allow=ulaw auth=md5,rsa

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Troy Telford
On 2012-02-29 15:25:49 +, Alejandro Imass said: We use SIP and IAX interchangeably, but had less hassle with IAX. The topic of the discussion on this thread was that SIP is so awesome and that IAX is a peice of crap. The original question (mine) was that my sound quality when using IAX

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: [...] If you can post some SIP debug info from an ATA trying to register without any redirection and also the relevant portions of your sip.conf, I am sure I can help. Do it from a new location with an el

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Troy Telford ttelford.gro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-02-29 15:25:49 +, Alejandro Imass said: We use SIP and IAX interchangeably, but had less hassle with IAX. The topic of the discussion on this thread was that SIP is so awesome and that IAX is a peice of

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-29 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Troy Telford ttelford.gro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-02-29 15:25:49 +, Alejandro Imass said: We use SIP and IAX interchangeably, but had less hassle with IAX. The topic of the

[asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
On my Asterisk system, I'm using a provider that provides both IAX2 and SIP connectivity. Personally, I'd prefer to use IAX2, and that's what my account is setup to use. However, I'm having a problem: With IAX2: - Incoming Voice from my Provider - Asterisk = Sounds great - Outgoing Voice

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Noah Engelberth
@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great On my Asterisk system, I'm using a provider that provides both IAX2 and SIP connectivity. Personally, I'd prefer to use IAX2, and that's what my account is setup to use. However, I'm having a problem

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Danny Nicholas
...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Troy Telford Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:08 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great On my Asterisk system, I'm using a provider that provides both IAX2

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On 02/28/2012 03:08 PM, Troy Telford wrote: [myprovider] type=friend username= secret= context=somecontext host=provider_server qualify=1000 disallow=all allow=g729 allow=ulaw auth=md5,rsa requirecalltoken=yes trunk=yes A serious bug with IAX2 trunking in recent versions of Asterisk (you did

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Troy Telford Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:08 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great On my

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:08 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great On my Asterisk system, I'm using a provider that provides both IAX2 and SIP connectivity. Personally, I'd prefer to use IAX2, and that's what my account

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
On 2012-02-28 22:17:37 +, Danny Nicholas said: Ok Steve, obviously you've outsmarted at least this poster.  On the one hand, IAX2 has purchased things for you (won't go as far as saying it bought your Mercedes), but on the other hand it is being dropped by providers as we speak. So are

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
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Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Carlos Alvarez
: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:59 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great PSS http://bit.ly/ywiwzt On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
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Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
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Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
On 2012-02-28 21:22:44 +, Kevin P. Fleming said: A serious bug with IAX2 trunking in recent versions of Asterisk (you did not mention what version you are using) was just resolved last week. You should test with 'trunk=no' to see if that is the cause of your problem; it seems very likely.

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
They said the same thing in 2005, 2008, now Every release. You never answered the question as to why you don't want to use SIP. Is there a reason, or do you just want to torture yourself? Thanks, Steve T On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Troy Telford ttelford.gro...@gmail.comwrote: On

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
BTW, Trunking was the other selling point of IAX2 besides using 1 port which is easily a DDOS target and also probably still an implantation problem of using one thread and one proc for all calls. Trunking allowed for less overhead then SIP since all the overhead for the concurrent calls were

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Balashov
IAX is not supported or taken seriously outside the Asterisk ghetto, and that's good enough reason not to use it, IMHO. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 260 Peachtree Street NW Suite 2200 Atlanta, GA 30303 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web:

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
Hey Alex, Hope you are well. Just a piece of advice. Many or most people do not know the real definition of ghetto and take it as a negative, poor, racial, black, connotation. Your vocabulary and and ability to articulate correctly can get you in trouble sometimes. Anyone that thinks that the

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
Wow Wikipedia was the only place that had the original meaning and not the slur or slang meaning. A *ghetto* is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues. The term was originally used in Venice

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: [...] Without trunking, you only have the single port thing.  It is quite easy to Nope. The main reason _we_ use IAX is because it's easier for NAT open the correct ports for SIP, some just have GUI with a SIP

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Alex Balashov
Oops, I meant da Asterisk 'hood. Thanks for the protip. On 02/28/2012 06:55 PM, Steve Totaro wrote: Hey Alex, Hope you are well. Just a piece of advice. Many or most people do not know the real definition of ghetto and take it as a negative, poor, racial, black, connotation. Your

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Troy Telford
On 2012-02-28 23:29:53 +, Steve Totaro said: They said the same thing in 2005, 2008, now Every release. You never answered the question as to why you don't want to use SIP. Is there a reason, or do you just want to torture yourself? Probably self-torture, yes. I want to at least try

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Carlos Alvarez
Perhaps your users live in an internet ghetto where the routers are similar to Yugos with spinners. We haven't run into any routers that don't do NAT properly in a very very long time. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Steve

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.com wrote: Perhaps your users live in an internet ghetto where the routers are similar to Yugos with spinners.  We haven't run into any routers that don't do NAT properly in a very very long time. Perhaps you should read again

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: works. This cannot be done with SIP and off the shelf cheap ATAs, period. We do it, so cannot seems to be a strong word. It's not perfect, but our IAX problems outnumbered the SIP problems by at least double. Your mileage

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: works. This cannot be done with SIP and off the shelf cheap ATAs, period. We do it, so cannot seems to be a strong word.  It's not perfect, Please

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Please expand as to how you set-up a SIP ATA behind a common home router set-up, without port redirection and/or use of a SIP proxy and/or STUN server? Unless the ATA has some sort of magic (e.g. VPN support) it _cannot_ be

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Steve Totaro stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com wrote: [...] Without trunking, you only have the single port thing. It is quite easy to Nope. The main reason _we_ use IAX is because it's

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: works. This cannot be done with SIP and off the shelf cheap ATAs, period. We do it, so cannot seems to be a strong word. It's not perfect, but

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Totaro
Roger That! On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Please expand as to how you set-up a SIP ATA behind a common home router set-up, without port redirection and/or use of a SIP proxy

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread John Novack
Just to stir the pot a bit, I am a member of a worldwide private network of Asterisk and AstLinux users. the network uses IAX exclusively, and we have no issues relating to audio quality with a large variety of providers, routers, host machines, and expertise in configuration of the specific

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Please expand as to how you set-up a SIP ATA behind a common home router set-up, without port redirection and/or use of a SIP proxy and/or STUN

Re: [asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

2012-02-28 Thread Eric Wieling
- IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Please expand as to how you set-up a SIP ATA behind a common home router set-up, without port redirection