I would suggest Free World Dialup (http://www.freeworlddialup.com/), which has an Inter-Asterisk Exchange gateway (i.e., when mdlbear manages to get Asterisk set up and connected to the network, you can call me on my FWD number -- ain't standards great?).
This is the time in VoIP technology where everyone's got ideas, and ways to communicate -- and every hacker's throwing up their hands in glee, trying to get things to work.
(Think about it: FWD provides 'presence' notification. If you have an Asterisk PBX answering your POTS line, it can see whether your FWD number is online -- if it is, it forwards it; if it's not, it goes to voicemail on your home Linux box. Or something. :))
I don't like Skype because of the peer-to-peer nature of its calls -- it uses your outgoing bandwidth like bittorrent does (read its Terms of Service) to serve other calls, as part of your service to the network.
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branchandroot
Eh.
Date: 2004-09-25 01:02 pm (UTC)This is the time in VoIP technology where everyone's got ideas, and ways to communicate -- and every hacker's throwing up their hands in glee, trying to get things to work.
(Think about it: FWD provides 'presence' notification. If you have an Asterisk PBX answering your POTS line, it can see whether your FWD number is online -- if it is, it forwards it; if it's not, it goes to voicemail on your home Linux box. Or something. :))
I don't like Skype because of the peer-to-peer nature of its calls -- it uses your outgoing bandwidth like bittorrent does (read its Terms of Service) to serve other calls, as part of your service to the network.