[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk VS. Skype

[Michael Graves]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:38:23 +0100 (BST), gARetH baBB wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 mgraves at mstvp.com wrote:
>
>> OK, I'll add my 2 cents. Firefly is the best soft client that I have
>> tried. I bought X-Lite,a dn tried a handful of OSS alternatives. Firefly
>> is the best in my experience. I will buy at least one of their hard
>
>It's the worst I've tried - it just crashes and burns everytime when I try
>to use SIP with it, and the UI is very poor. It doesn't even come up as a
>proper application which you can Alt-TAB to.
>
>Though Xlite can be annoying, it does a better job than Firefly - if only
>IAX2 was added to Xlite ...


Funny, I found X-Lite very configurable, but correspondingly had for a
beginner to configure. Since IAX2 is so much better a NAT traversal I
never use Firefly as a SIP client. 

In Feb when FWD allowed free calling to Ireland and the UK I used
Firely to connect to my home * server remotely to make FWD calls. I
might have installed a SIP client on my laptop but then I'd have to
deal with passing SIP through my firewall. The fewer open ports on the
firewall the better.

On another occasion I found myself in the control room of the PBS
television staion in Seattle giving a training course. They put me on
their LAN and Firefly logged in to my * server immediately. That entire
week it was as if I was in my office. Too cool!

Michael
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