I mentioned this to various people earlier, and they seemed interested, so I thought I'd vaguely float the idea here.
Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk? I've been playing with it this week and setting up a connection to the normal phone network using an ISDN line, with a hardware VoIP phone locally. I'm also planning to look at Linux based softphones over the next week and should have a magic PCI card coming which will let me hook up to a normal phone line, so hopefully should be able to come up with bits of interest to anyone who's curious about this stuff.
Takers? Do we have any locations for talks were we could get a reasonable net connection for a live demonstration perhaps?
J.
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 00:27, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I mentioned this to various people earlier, and they seemed interested, so I thought I'd vaguely float the idea here.
Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk? I've been playing with it this week and setting up a connection to the normal phone network using an ISDN line, with a hardware VoIP phone locally. I'm also planning to look at Linux based softphones over the next week and should have a magic PCI card coming which will let me hook up to a normal phone line, so hopefully should be able to come up with bits of interest to anyone who's curious about this stuff.
Takers? Do we have any locations for talks were we could get a reasonable net connection for a live demonstration perhaps?
J.
I'm interested. Ive been wondering what all the fuss about this is but haven't got around to looking into it.
Remember to add it to this list: http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?DemosOfferedDemosWanted
Dennis
Will you be making any mention of Asterisk, the Linux based PBX?
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:54:58AM +0100, Chris Glover wrote:
Will you be making any mention of Asterisk, the Linux based PBX?
Yes, that's what I've been using mainly. I've also had a play with SER.
J.
I'd be very interested in this, I've been trying to get Asterisk working for my LAN (and through an external modem), but have only managed to get as far as it taking a message for me.
I hope you're going to publish docs about how your tests go, and what software you look at :o)
I've just installed Skype (www.skype.org), an IM looking VoIP app, looks like it could be pretty good, and also does conferences. Not available for mac though, which is a shame since a few of my mates have macs, and I'm also not sure whether you can use it as a standard VoIP program, or only on their network.
Duncan Sample Antimatters
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On 21-Jul-2004 Jonathan McDowell wrote:
I mentioned this to various people earlier, and they seemed interested, so I thought I'd vaguely float the idea here.
Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk?
If only! My brother and I tried for a long time to get Linux Internet 'phone software (various) to work without luck. We could get a connection from either end but no sound. We disabled all firewalls at one point in case that was the problem - but no luck.
The nearest I've got is being able to get sound using Linux Internet 'phone software over my local home network.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
On Saturday 24 July 2004 14:36, bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk?
If only! My brother and I tried for a long time to get Linux Internet 'phone software (various) to work without luck. We could get a connection from either end but no sound. We disabled all firewalls at one point in case that was the problem - but no luck.
Charles Garcia-Tobin and myself (Charles has posted to this list before) have had gnomemeeting working a few times with both video and audio. I have even had it working when connected to Netmeeting.
Assuming that your sound mixer is passing the mic input over to capture and you both have the same codecs (we found it also helped to both be running the latest build of gnomemeeting) then it should just work.
A big clue to what is going wrong can be the status of the data indicators at the bottom of the gnomemeeting panel. I can never remember which is data in and which is out. but basically when there is some noise made at your mic (whilst on a connected session) then one of them should be showing a data rate other than 0.00, if not then there is something wrong with the configuration of your audio capture device. I also seem to remember the later builds having a facility to check mic capture levels, if so then it may be worth looking at that.
There is some info on the gnomemeeting site about how to set up firewalls etc....
On 2004.07.22 00:27, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk?
Yes please, I'd be interested.
and should have a magic PCI card coming which will let me hook up to a normal phone line.
Is this PCI card reasonably priced and if so, where did you find it?
Steve.
www.voiptalk.org sell the Digium (The company that wrote Asterisk) X100P for �60. Although Asterisk will work with most modems that have an Intel 537 chip. You can buy clone cards off ebay for �20.
HTH
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