[asterisk-users] MagicJack quality

[Steve Totaro]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Tzafrir Cohen
<tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:54:37AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Michael Graves <mgraves at mstvp.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:26:06 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
>> >
>> >>As Michael Graves points out, people will hack it to run on thin
>> >>clients and why not virtual machines with very limited access?  Maybe
>> >>an AP with a USB port and OpenWRT or something?
>> >
>> > Since it needs to run their app it's probablly limited to x86 right
>> > now. Thin clients running XPe are suitable hosts, probably not routers.
>> > Not open source so a port is unlikely.
>>
>> I read on one page that linux support was to come later "this year".
>>
>> Do you know how many times I have seen or heard "An Open Source Port
>> is not Likely"?
>>
>> Who says it "must" run their app?  Can it run in Wine?  Where there is
>> a will there is a way.  Sniff enough packets and with some mojo,
>> anything can be emulated on the wire.
>
> What is their network different than some random SIP provider? Besides
> the fact that you can't just call a random SIP provider?
>
> Add that to the fact that it won't "just work".
>

I don't have one but I assume it is just a mass produced commodity
sound card with some flash to store their software and configs.

Thanks,
Steve