On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:33:02 -0400, John Todd wrote: > >On Oct 30, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Vincent wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Since SIP/RTP is a pain to use with road warriors who need to connect >> from any location over the Internet, I'd like to get them some IAX >> phones instead. >> >> For those of you using this protocol instead of SIP, what would you >> recommend as IAX hardphones and Windows (and ideally Mac) softphones? >> >> Thank you. > > >I'll avoid the SIP/IAX religious war that usually breaks out over this >topic and actually provide an answer to your question. :-) > >Citel just announced an IAX hardphone not long ago. I haven't used >it, but maybe you'd want to give it a shot and let the rest of us know >how it works. As far as softphones, I'd say Zoiper has been my choice >for a while - runs on Mac and Windows. (note: these are not official >recommendations; just random personal selections made with no >discernible criteria other than "it seemed like a good idea at the >time")
As a road warrior myself I find that SIP soft phones have been becoming more and more effecticve from hotels in the US & Canada. There are still occasions when they won't work for reasons of port blocking or NAT, but not very often anymore. Things have improved in recent years. The larger issue I have with VoIP over hotel networks are congestion and Wifi. Often hotel networks are very slow which renders then useless for VoIP. And wifi is usually a problem. As a shared medium I find that Wifi can be a significant impediment to good voip calls. That said, when Eyebeam or PhonerLite doesn't work for me Skype almost always does. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[email protected] skype mjgraves Twitter mjgraves _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
