VoIP software

[Jon maddog Hall]

Ed,

I called the USA from Brazil last week and talked for 1/2 hour.  Used an
IAXy analog-phone to VoIP box from Digium.com and the Nufone.net service.
The IAX protocol (supported by Asterisk) can go through firewalls and NAT
translations.  You just hook the box up to an Ethernet that has DHCP service
and an analog telephone, then plug in the power.  About twenty seconds later
you have a connection to the service provider.

The 1/2 hour call from Brazil to the USA cost me 73 cents.  I even let some of
the Brazilians call their relatives in Canada.  It was so cheap, why not?

Pretty cool.

md
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