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

[Troy Telford]

On 2012-02-29 15:25:49 +0000, Alejandro Imass said:
> We use SIP and IAX interchangeably, but had less hassle with IAX. The
> topic of the discussion on this thread was that SIP is so awesome and
> that IAX is a peice of crap.

The original question (mine) was that my sound quality when using IAX 
was bad; with SIP the sound quality was great. Critically, I mentioned 
that I wanted to use IAX; I even said I was willing to do some "self 
torture" to get IAX working properly.

I only wanted some help in figuring out what was 'wrong' with my IAX 
configuration.

After a few suggestions, Kevin Fleming noticed I was using "trunk=yes," 
and it was likely that my Asterisk install was being affected by a 
just-fixed bug.

Disabling trunking fixed the problem - the voice sounds great even in 
my worst-case scenerio (which was always almost unintelligible).

The devolution into a flamewar is unfortunate, but such things are 
inevitable whenever a 'this' vs 'that' question is posed.

For instance, is the Yugo really any worse than the competing Trabant? 
The only correct answer is to fling them both with a Trebuchet and see 
which one flies farther.
-- 
Troy Telford