[asterisk-users] MagicJack quality

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:52:21AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> 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.

There are cheaper USB sound cards. Any USB "voip phone" / "skype phone" 
is (also) a USB sound device. This is a standard class of USB devices,
and is well supported (at least in Linux).

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