[MLB-WIRELESS] Free P2P phones will pressure telcos

[mhill at satlink.com.au]

i installed x-litefwd and cant get a connection out to 
anyone. im just playing around and it just doesnt want to 
dial

any thoughts >??

matt


> On the note of this sort of thing, you should probably 
have a quick look at
> FWD (Free World Dial) at http://www.fwd.pulver.com/, 
which is a world-wide
> directory for VOIP and has about 70,000 members at this 
point and a
> searchable directory.
> 
> Uses the SIP protocol (rather than h.323) and it's pretty 
good. I am
> currently vaguelly in the process of trying to setup a 
local outbound SIP
> proxy (ideally NAT traversal) to get around a lot of the 
inherent problems
> with VOIP, but nothing as yet.
> 
> I personally couldn't get Skype working in any 
particularly useful form and
> also don't like it as it's proprietary and non-open 
(source or otherwise).
> 
> Checkout FWD. I know there's already a few of the 
Wireless guys (Rob Clark,
> myself, etc) already on it.
> 
> 	Fenn.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> > [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of
> > andrewg at d2.net.au
> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 11:16 PM
> > To: matthew.c.boyd at uts.edu.au
> > Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Free P2P phones will 
pressure telcos
> >
> >
> > Possibly something that might be interesting,
> > http://mall.pulltheplug.com/~andrewg/
> >
> > Its a VoIP thing I'm doing for the irc users for 
pulltheplug people,
> > Conference calls aren't setup since we need to get a 
timing src thingy
> > loaded, and its a kinda production machine (or 
alternatively, there may be
> > another box spare for us to use at some stages.)
> >
> > Generally, 200ms isn't that bad - depending on what 
your aims are.
> >
> > > How do these things actually work, how does it reduce 
latency by being
> > > distributed? Surely that works for file sharing but 
not when you've got
> > > one  source and one destination as you would have in 
a phone call.
> > > I can see a market for IP phones and wireless but the 
whole kazaa link
> > > seems like hype... hmm hype.. skype is this a 
coincidence? I'm yet to
> > > stumble across a decent software voip solution that 
works over the
> > > internet  where you can't get consistent sub 200ms 
pings across the same
> > > continent,  let alone to another country.
> > >
> > > My 2c
> > > Matt
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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