[Asterisk-Users] iaxy vs sipura

[Michael Bielicki]

the only problem you will have whilst travelling with the iaxy is that
it supports only bandwidth hungry codecs. so if you are anywhere in the
world where bandwidth is a problem, the iaxy is a nogo

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:54, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:35:46 -0700, Florin Andrei
> <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> > I need a cheap simple adaptor for analog phones to use with Asterisk. It
> > should be some kind of "configure and forget" type of device, to use at
> > the office, or just throw it in a road warrior's bag and use it while
> > travelling, to call back to the "mothership"
> 
> For travelling, no SIP based device will be "configure and forget".
> Perhaps if you travel only within the US, you may be lucky most of the
> time but pretty much anywhere else where IP addresses are scarce you
> will be out of luck.
> 
> I have been travelling a lot on all inhabited continents, using hotel
> provided internet connections, internet cafes, client's office LANs,
> hotspots in public places, cafes, airports etc etc.
> 
> The most common experience is "SIP doesn't work at all" and the second
> most common experience is "SIP only works after messing around a lot".
> Even if you get SIP to work, you are likely to spend so much time on
> fiddling with settings that it has a negative impact on your schedule.
> 
> I haven't used an IAXy yet but I run Asterisk on my Powerbook and use
> IAX to connect back to my company's Asterisk server. That works all
> the time and is "configure and forget". I assume it will be the same
> when using an IAXy.
> 
> The only situation I can think of where the IAXy alone will not work
> is with hotspots that require you to log in from a web browser in
> order to activate the service, probably setting a cookie or something
> like that. In this case you would need to run your IAXy on a NAT
> provided by your notebook because the hotspot will not give you access
> unless it sees the cookie or the MAC address of the machine that was
> used to first sign in.
> 
> hope this helps
> regards
> benjk