Doug Crompton on 22 Jan 2008 22:16:53 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] VOIP on the road


Thanks. Downloaded and have it running. Not as pretty as swift sound
express talk but has iax2.  Now I will have to go out on the road and give
it a try.

Doug

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jason wrote:

> On 1/22/08, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
> > Just curious with others experiences with VOIP wireless on the road. I use
> > Asterisk here and will be taking my laptop with softphone on the road to
> > connect back to local Asterisk. My IP is static and all relevant ports are
> > open. I was wondering if public wireless hotspots do the same? Not that I
> > usually answer it but kinda neat to have your home phone ring in Siberia.
>
> SIP with NAT can be an enormous pain, and STUN is really just a bandaid...
>
> Since you're running Asterisk, I'd suggest you use an iax2-based
> softphone, like the free version of zoiper.  Crack open udp/4569 and
> forward appropriately on your home network and you're done.  iax2 is
> very nat friendly.
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