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Obelix

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Sow would one go about setting up a system that can receive landline analogue calls and re-route them onto a voip link, and vice-versa.

Ive seem things like asterisk, but i dont have a clue as to the harware requirements on the phoneline side.

Obelix
 
Hi Obelix

You would need hardware such as brooktrout(http://www.brooktrout.com/) board, this allows for multiple incoming lines and can be used for either voice or data over the net. Have a look at the site, its a good place to start. This is used for companies as it is quite pricey.
 
The only products I have found on the net in co.za land for this are from Miro.

http://www.miro.co.za/
Note that their price list seems to have a few more items than their web site offers.

If you are just looking for a single line solution that HandyTone 486 looks good.

I am sure many more products will surface in the comming weeks as VoIP gets going.
 
Asterisk

Asterisk is really awesome - there are a couple of cards that can be used on the server - Miro sells many that do work well.

The only issue I still have at this stage is that they have not yet been ICASA approved - not that we really care about that, but we do care about what will happen when someone confiscates the equipment, and we have wasted our money. We are busy testing the equipment at the moment and have been very surprised at how well it works.
 
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Skype

what's Skypes input to all this? Anyone know? For sure they still beat Mweb's 99c offer for overseas calls by being 5 times cheaper,
 
Last night I tested the Skypeout feature and called my answering machine downstairs. The playback message was very clear through skype but I couldnt hear a damn thing when I listened to the message I left.

So, anyone who wants to listen to voicemail, Skype will be perfect. Otherwise, I wouldnt bother trying to phone SA landline numbers
 
Had similar issue with skypeout

I had the same prob with Skypeout. I called the US and Isle of Man and both times could hear the receiver but they couldn't hear me. It was a quick twiddle with the MS sound settings that got it right.
 
St3ve, what did the 'quick twiddle' involve? There isnt much to play with on my machine
 
Microphone recorder settings

K just going off the top of my head here, but I remember that skype changed my default windows audio settings - start/control panel/audio.

As I recall the quick fiddle involved changing the sound recording device to another one that was available.

At any rate the fact that I could hear the receiver on my speakers, but that they could not hear me pointed to a microphone or recording issue on my system, which turned out to be the case.
 
Been reading up on the skype forums. Seems this is a worldwide problem and not as simple as it seems. They also basically say that Win XP will give problems if SP2 is installed. They suggest running the EvID4226 patch as well as various other tricks to try and get the connection a bit better. None of them have worked for me yet. I sure as hell aint removing all firewalls on my machine which is another clever idea of theirs
 
ahh okay forget everything I said coz this prob happened to me last year before I started running winxpsp2
 
Skype & Miro

Hi Guys

I use Skype all the time for International calls over ADSL - it works wonderfully for me, and it works womderfully generally 98% of the time.

As for VoIP from Miro - as far as I have been able to ascertain from them directly, none of their equipment is ICASA approved yet - although they are apparently working on it very hard.

Personally, I don't really care that much anymore - I thin kwe have been slaves of the opression of the monopoly for far too damn long.
 
AFAIK skype uses a propriety protocol ( not sip or h.232 ) so its going to be a while before "opensource" skype-out type solutions are available. I want something thats not going to cost me an arm and a leg to setup ( asterisk sounds good ) and then use my landline to provide an entry into a voip network. Seeing as local calls are not free ( yet ? ) i will not be providing an open outbound line.

That way my mom can call my sister in London ( who as an 8MB ADSL - the cow ) at the cost of a local call.

or something like that......

Obelix
 
I just tested a SkypeOut call to a UK cell. Very clear and they could hear me clearly. So it seems that SkypeOut to Telkom and MTN just suck.
 
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