[asterisk-users] Same provider - IAX sounds bad, SIP sounds great

[John Novack]

Just to stir the pot a bit, I am a member of a worldwide private network 
of Asterisk and AstLinux users. the network uses IAX exclusively, and we 
have no issues relating to audio quality with a large variety of 
providers, routers, host machines, and expertise in configuration of the 
specific nodes
Many ( in the US and Canada ) use a PSTN connection as well as the 
private network using voip.ms with equally stellar quality using IAX

IAX was chosen as the default network protocol because of the many 
issues with SIP, routers, and ( later ) the many attempts at break-ins.

As an aside, didn't the manufacture of the Yugo die with the death of 
Yugoslavia?  Most of the Yugo's shortly thereafter? If anyone has one 
now it may be close to the value of a Delorian


No replies necessary or even desired.


John Novack

Carlos Alvarez wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alejandro Imass<ait at p2ee.org>  wrote:
>    
>> Please expand as to how you set-up a SIP ATA behind a common home
>> router set-up, without port redirection and/or use of a SIP proxy
>> and/or STUN server? Unless the ATA has some sort of magic (e.g. VPN
>> support) it _cannot_ be done.
>>      
> Go buy a WRT-54G or nearly any consumer-class router and just plug in
> a SIP device.  Done.  It works.  We *never* work on customer routers
> and very rarely have to tell them to reconfigure their router at all.
> My own home configuration is an Airport Extreme with zero
> configuration.  So either these are very old routers you're having a
> problem with, or buggy SIP devices, or something else.
>
>    
>> You should care.
>>      
> Hmm, let me check the reading...
>
> http://i1-win.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Care-Meter_1.png
>
>    
>> don't drive a Yugo but if I did I could easily be offended by the
>> pejorative use of the brand.
>>      
> It's a piece of junk and everyone knows it, including the owners, so who cares?
>
>    

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