[plug] VOIP - I'm connected!

[John H]

Why not install Skype, plug in a mic and do VoIP on your 'puter?

john h

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 08:54 pm, Steve Boak wrote:
> Free phonecalls, here I come :-)
>
> I received my IP phone today, a Grandstream Budgetone 100 from iTech. It
> took all of five minutes to set it up using the one-page internal web form,
> get a number from Free World Dialup, now all I need is someone to talk
> to...
>
> For those interested, the phone came in black, not the white that was
> advertised (I don't mind), wrapped in bubble-wrap in a flimsy cardboard
> box. It seems well made, looks and feels exactly like a 'normal' phone,
> except it plugs into a network cable instead of a phone line.
>
> There was no instructions of any kind with the unit, but a google search of
> 'grandstream budge-tone 100' gave me the current 36 page user manual on the
> top of the first page. The only thing I needed the manual for was to find
> the default login password for the internal webpage, and everything I
> needed to know about configuration was on the FWD site. All local network
> configuration was completely automatic via dhcp.
>
> And yes, it does seem to work seemlessly over a NAT enabled firewall, once
> I poked a hole at udp port 5060 for the SIP stream.
>
> Call quality seems excellent, although with a noticeable (but not bad)
> delay when talking to the FWD echo server as a test. I assume this would be
> much less apparent in a real conversation.
>
> All in all, a definite thumbs-up :-)
>
> Steve

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