Comments on: Gradwell VoIP http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/02/gradwell-voip/ Ramblings of Jim Whiteside, and some good old Norfolk squit. Sat, 19 May 2012 09:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: mat http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/02/gradwell-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-127 mat Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:35:58 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-127 Don't get me wrong, I didn't think you were knocking Gradwell, not at all. But - if you have to reconfigure your network to be able to make calls, something seems wrong somehow. As I said, Skype works right out of the box for me. Mobile SIP - nobody I know of has made it work, and I know a load of people who do stuff like that a fair bit. There was a rumour a friend had got his SE-K850 doing SIP, but he's as likely just using the handset as an audio device for a software phone on his laptop. Gizmo's app is apparently very good though. And Three's SkypePhone. Someone else does one for mobiles too, can't remember who though. If anything comes to mind, I'll let you know. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t think you were knocking Gradwell, not at all. But - if you have to reconfigure your network to be able to make calls, something seems wrong somehow. As I said, Skype works right out of the box for me.

Mobile SIP - nobody I know of has made it work, and I know a load of people who do stuff like that a fair bit. There was a rumour a friend had got his SE-K850 doing SIP, but he’s as likely just using the handset as an audio device for a software phone on his laptop.

Gizmo’s app is apparently very good though. And Three’s SkypePhone. Someone else does one for mobiles too, can’t remember who though. If anything comes to mind, I’ll let you know.

]]> By: jaydublu http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/02/gradwell-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-126 jaydublu Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:19 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-126 > You might say Gradwell are early days, teething trouble, etc I'm absolutely not knocking Gradwell - I'm sure all problems are of my own making and it's me that's teething. Since rebuilding my network overnight it's seemed very stable today, and I'm very impressed with the Centrex functionality. > I had an unlocked, nokia-firmware, N95 for a while, but I couldn’t get the SIP stuff working either. Anyone had any success with any mobile's SIP stack? > You might say Gradwell are early days, teething trouble, etc

I’m absolutely not knocking Gradwell - I’m sure all problems are of my own making and it’s me that’s teething. Since rebuilding my network overnight it’s seemed very stable today, and I’m very impressed with the Centrex functionality.

> I had an unlocked, nokia-firmware, N95 for a while, but I couldn’t get the SIP stuff working either.

Anyone had any success with any mobile’s SIP stack?

]]> By: mat http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/02/gradwell-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-125 mat Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:28:18 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=124#comment-125 Skype works really well for me. I use it all the time for business (seeing as moblog:tech are spread Norwich to London to Edinburgh to Florida, we don't have much choice!), and I didn't have to fiddle with my network, buy new hardware or anything else. I use it over wireless more often than wired, and often with only 20% signal or so - Skype is very forgiving. Housemate is often torrenting furiously while I make calls, no problem at all. Gizmoproject also very good - much better for conferencing. Your mileage, obviously, may vary. You might say Gradwell are early days, teething trouble, etc - but they've been doing VOIP since before you started working for Soup - any problems with their system (rather than yours) aren't teething, they're ongoing. If all I wanted was a number or two, rather than a full-on virtual exchange system, I'd stick with Skype, personally. Oh, and ftr, I had an unlocked, nokia-firmware, N95 for a while, but I couldn't get the SIP stuff working either. That might be due to me being on Vodafone too. Gizmoproject.com have a SIP app for mobiles, I know some people who've used that with some success. g'luck! voip might be the future, but it can be pretty flaky sometimes too. working from home is the dogs though. :) Skype works really well for me. I use it all the time for business (seeing as moblog:tech are spread Norwich to London to Edinburgh to Florida, we don’t have much choice!), and I didn’t have to fiddle with my network, buy new hardware or anything else. I use it over wireless more often than wired, and often with only 20% signal or so - Skype is very forgiving. Housemate is often torrenting furiously while I make calls, no problem at all. Gizmoproject also very good - much better for conferencing. Your mileage, obviously, may vary.

You might say Gradwell are early days, teething trouble, etc - but they’ve been doing VOIP since before you started working for Soup - any problems with their system (rather than yours) aren’t teething, they’re ongoing. If all I wanted was a number or two, rather than a full-on virtual exchange system, I’d stick with Skype, personally.

Oh, and ftr, I had an unlocked, nokia-firmware, N95 for a while, but I couldn’t get the SIP stuff working either. That might be due to me being on Vodafone too. Gizmoproject.com have a SIP app for mobiles, I know some people who’ve used that with some success.

g’luck! voip might be the future, but it can be pretty flaky sometimes too. working from home is the dogs though. :)

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