[MLB-WIRELESS] Anyone for VoIP at the next meet?

Brendan Hiley Pro at ProFX.net
Mon Aug 12 19:34:28 EST 2002


Yes!!

-ProFX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Langdon" <tlangdon at atctraining.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Anyone for VoIP at the next meet?


> Just for something different to do, does anyone want to play VoIP at the
> next Melbourne Wireless meeting?
>
> There are a couple of packages around, but the one I'd suggest is Speak
> Freely, for the following reasons:
>
> 1.  It's open source (yay!)
>
> 2.  It comes in UNIX (not just Linux) and Windows flavours.  Will be
> interesting to see how it goes on FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
>
> 3.  It's free (Windows version is GPL, UNIX is public domain).
>
> 4.  Supports multicast
>
> 5.  Comes with its own conference, directory and echo server software (not
> dependent on any outside infrastructure).
>
> 6.  Highly configurable.
>
> 7.  UNIX version is commandline driven, no need to load X.
>
> 8.  Support is in house (I use a slightly modified form of the UNIX
version
> all the time, and have spent the last week hacking control scripts for
it).
>
> For more info, http://www.speakfreely.org has the Windows version.  The
UNIX
> version can be found at http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/unix/.
>
> Other alternatives include NetMeeting/GnomeMeeting (Windows/Linux, H323
> compliant).  Other alternatives?
>
> Who's for a wireless voice network?  I may even arrange for some external
> audio to be piped into the network...  If we run multicast, the bandwidth
> will scale (anyone got a multicast capable router with two wireless cards
in
> it for demo purposes?).
>
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