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vincent.delporte at bi...
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 Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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Hello
I need to hook up someone's remote PC onto our Asterisk server over
the Net. There are firewalls on each side, so I figured it's time to
give IAX a try, and see if it's less of a pain to use than SIP. And
since IAX hardphones are pretty are, I guess I'll go softphone.
Apparently, the two most well-known IAX and SIP clients for Windows
are ZoIPer and X-Lite, respectively.
For those of you have tried both, especially in a context with NAT
firewalls on both sides, what's the outcome? Did you stick to ZoIPer,
or is it not good on par with X-Lite? Are other clients I should know
about?
http://www.zoiper.com/
http://www.counterpath.com/
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gordon+asterisk at dro...
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:34 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Vincent wrote:
| Quote: | Hello
I need to hook up someone's remote PC onto our Asterisk server over
the Net. There are firewalls on each side, so I figured it's time to
give IAX a try, and see if it's less of a pain to use than SIP. And
since IAX hardphones are pretty are, I guess I'll go softphone.
Apparently, the two most well-known IAX and SIP clients for Windows
are ZoIPer and X-Lite, respectively.
For those of you have tried both, especially in a context with NAT
firewalls on both sides, what's the outcome? Did you stick to ZoIPer,
or is it not good on par with X-Lite? Are other clients I should know
about?
http://www.zoiper.com/
http://www.counterpath.com/
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Zoiper "just works" in IAX mode.
The GUI is simple and easy to use too. (Although I've only first-hand
experience of the Linux one)
Gordon |
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thp at westhawk.co.uk
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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Jared was talking about a decent IAX hardphone on this list a week or so back,
I don't recall the make.
If you use IAX, all you need to do is :
1) set your local firewall to forward udp 4569 to asterisk.
(optionally filtering by from IP address if your user has a
fixed IP address or known range)
2) have your ZOIPer or other IAX phone register with asterisk every 60
seconds.
3) configure an IAX 'friend' account for your user.
You should not need to make _any_ changes to the firewall at the
remote end (unless they block all outgoing UDP).
Tim.
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From: "Vincent" <vincent.delporte at bigfoot.com>
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Sent: 05 February 2008 08:07:01 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite?
Hello
I need to hook up someone's remote PC onto our Asterisk server over
the Net. There are firewalls on each side, so I figured it's time to
give IAX a try, and see if it's less of a pain to use than SIP. And
since IAX hardphones are pretty are, I guess I'll go softphone.
Apparently, the two most well-known IAX and SIP clients for Windows
are ZoIPer and X-Lite, respectively.
For those of you have tried both, especially in a context with NAT
firewalls on both sides, what's the outcome? Did you stick to ZoIPer,
or is it not good on par with X-Lite? Are other clients I should know
about?
http://www.zoiper.com/
http://www.counterpath.com/
Thanks.
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alan at blog-city.com
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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Marc Charbonneau wrote:
Marc, does your client play nicely with Vista? We've been having some
problems with softphones that work fine in XP, but choke in Vista.
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timebandit001 at gmail...
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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| Quote: | Marc, does your client play nicely with Vista? We've been having some
problems with softphones that work fine in XP, but choke in Vista.
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I don't know, never tried it since I couldn't find a machine with
enough power to run Vista decently 
Try it and let me know how it goes.
If it doesn't work, I will try to fix it.
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vincent.delporte at bi...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:56:37 +0000 (GMT), "Tim H. Panton"
<thp at westhawk.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Jared was talking about a decent IAX hardphone on this list a week or so back,
I don't recall the make.
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Google didn't return anything with " Jared IAX" in the
gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user archives.
| Quote: | You should not need to make _any_ changes to the firewall at the
remote end (unless they block all outgoing UDP).
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Thanks. BTW, will Asterisk 1.6 support STUN so that the server can
punch out UDP port for RTP like SIP clients do? |
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spamsucks2005 at gmail...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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Vincent, the phone referred to that Jared mentioned is the Allnet
7960. I have an ongoing review of it here (meaning I never finished it
properly).
http://food4wine.ning.com/
On Feb 6, 2008 12:44 PM, Vincent <vincent.delporte at bigfoot.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:56:37 +0000 (GMT), "Tim H. Panton"
<thp at westhawk.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | Jared was talking about a decent IAX hardphone on this list a week or so back,
I don't recall the make.
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Google didn't return anything with " Jared IAX" in the
gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.asterisk.user archives.
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vincent.delporte at bi...
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:12:21 +0100, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com>
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| Quote: | the phone referred to that Jared mentioned is the Allnet
7960. I have an ongoing review of it here (meaning I never finished it
properly).
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Thanks for the tip. |
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vincent.delporte at bi...
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:29 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:12:21 +0100, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com>
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| Quote: | http://food4wine.ning.com/
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BTW, we also want to receive call notifications on our cell phones. In
addition to using SMS, we found a cheaper alternative which is to use
iMode cellphones and subscribe to Bouygues Telecom's 2MB/month plan
for ?2.
We get a notification when an e-mail was left in the mailbox. At about
200 bytes per message sent by Asterisk, 20 calls/day, 20 days/month,
that's about 80KB of data.
http://imode.fr/
My .15E |
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vincent.delporte at bi...
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? |
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:03:22 +0000, Tim Panton <thp at westhawk.co.uk>
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| Quote: | Is that some form of push notification?
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Yup, it comes with the same "push mail" feature found in BlackBerry.
Much cheaper than either sending SMS's or taking a 3G subscription.
Can't wait for Wimax or cellphones over TV airwaves,though. |
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