Today’s experiment in Voice Over IP is as follows: I’m running the free X-Lite software telephone on my Apple iBook here at Yankee in New Hampshire. X-Lite is configured to register with my Asterisk PBX back in the office in Charlottetown.
The end result is that when callers “press 1 for Peter” when calling the office, the calls get routed to my laptop.
Conversely, I have a Charlottetown dial tone here when I need it.
I just got off the phone with Johnny, then Catherine. Quality appears to be fair to poor — possibly because I’m just using the iBook’s built-in microphone. I’m going to do some twiddling.
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xten.com announced ‘Eyebeam’
xten.com announced ‘Eyebeam’ for OS X several weeks ago which includes echo cancelation (the original xten client did not). I haven’t tried it (purchase only), but it is likely to offer superior voice quality.
Adam and I had similar
Adam and I had similar experiences with his ibook and Asterisk. We chalked it up to the ibook’s internal speaker as well. A headset (ideally bluetooth) would make all the difference I believe.
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