[asterisk-users] switching from SIP to Skype..or not

[Thufir]

I'm testing Asterisk at home, crummy connection.  Skype works fine for 
me, but every SIP client, even without using Asterisk, fails to connect.  
That's ok.


Is swapping out SIP for Skype a big deal?  


Heh, well, I guess it's dead:

http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/skype-for-asterisk




If I have a really bad connection, can I "downgrade" SIP somehow?  I 
don't really need to use to make voice calls.  Or, more specifically, 
quality, echo, distortion aren't relevant.  Just SIP to SIP "hello".


When I connect to any SIP provider, ekiga, etc, without using Asterisk, I 
get "too many hops" errors.  While I have another computer on the LAN I 
can connect to, it's not quite the same.

Any thoughts?



thanks,

Thufir