Comments on: My new password is… http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/ Blogging in the real world Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:50:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: H323 Ip Phone http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-9018 H323 Ip Phone Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:15:02 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-9018 <strong>H323 Ip Phone...</strong> Very nice, I like your post.... H323 Ip Phone…

Very nice, I like your post….

]]> By: Steve Cassidy http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-6648 Steve Cassidy Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:59:54 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-6648 (oh and you don't need expensive IP phones. You can have bluetooth headsets and a PC soft-phone, or USB phones. I've been fiddling around with some crazy Freecom devices: a USB phone with a Skype button on it (which works well with VOIP soft-phone software) and a completely mad USB "speakerphone" unit - not even a keypad on it - that does a great job of being a loudspeaker phone system. At least, Tim claims it suits my style on the phone...! (oh and you don’t need expensive IP phones. You can have bluetooth headsets and a PC soft-phone, or USB phones. I’ve been fiddling around with some crazy Freecom devices: a USB phone with a Skype button on it (which works well with VOIP soft-phone software) and a completely mad USB “speakerphone” unit – not even a keypad on it – that does a great job of being a loudspeaker phone system. At least, Tim claims it suits my style on the phone…!

]]> By: Steve Cassidy http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-6645 Steve Cassidy Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:56:12 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-6645 Fair point well made... in fact, it's the other way up. A VOIP exchange may have 4 or 5 incoming streams of calls from internet gateways - aka "SIP Providers" - and only keep the ISDN line for those days when the Internet fails. One of my clients has just set up this way with their 0845 "switchboard" enquiries number delivered via their SDSL line from a SIP gateway, and their "Branch office" number delivered via the creaky old ISDN line. The software config of their VOIP box handles least-cost call routing to work out which type of link (ISDN, SIP or H323) best suits the call they are trying to make. Fair point well made… in fact, it’s the other way up. A VOIP exchange may have 4 or 5 incoming streams of calls from internet gateways – aka “SIP Providers” – and only keep the ISDN line for those days when the Internet fails. One of my clients has just set up this way with their 0845 “switchboard” enquiries number delivered via their SDSL line from a SIP gateway, and their “Branch office” number delivered via the creaky old ISDN line. The software config of their VOIP box handles least-cost call routing to work out which type of link (ISDN, SIP or H323) best suits the call they are trying to make.

]]> By: Derek Clarke http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-6630 Derek Clarke Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:24:28 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-6630 I'm puzzled. Surely a telephone exchange which plugs into an ISDN line is er a telephone exchange? Why bother with the VOIP bit and expensive IP phones? I’m puzzled.

Surely a telephone exchange which plugs into an ISDN line is er a telephone exchange? Why bother with the VOIP bit and expensive IP phones?

]]> By: Will Kemp http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-2055 Will Kemp Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:04:41 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-2055 Yeah, fair enough i suppose. Then you've got to get a null modem adaptor too, to cross it back... I hate soldering those horrible little D9 connectors though - i'm so glad i never have to do that any more! ;-) Yeah, fair enough i suppose. Then you’ve got to get a null modem adaptor too, to cross it back… I hate soldering those horrible little D9 connectors though – i’m so glad i never have to do that any more! ;-)

]]> By: Steve Cassidy http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-2046 Steve Cassidy Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:48:46 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-2046 It's a straight-through cable. USB RS32 is 99% of the time, crossover... It’s a straight-through cable. USB RS32 is 99% of the time, crossover…

]]> By: Will Kemp http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/07/my-new-password-is/comment-page-1/#comment-2040 Will Kemp Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=2310#comment-2040 Why bother with an antique laptop? Just buy a USB to RS232 cable? They're under a tenner online. Why bother with an antique laptop? Just buy a USB to RS232 cable? They’re under a tenner online.

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