Hi,
My voip provider offer both IAX connection (referenced to my geographical phone number) and as a SIP client.
What do people think is the best/preffered way to conenct to my Asterisk box?
Cheers,
Rob.
I’d recommend IAX (unless you have a reason not to want that), since it is much more NAT friendly (assuming you care about that…)
Personally I use IAX
However I have heard many compelling arguments at the recent astricon as to why NOT to use IAX…
however it works for me
[quote=“brushhead”]Hi,
My voip provider offer both IAX connection (referenced to my geographical phone number) and as a SIP client.
What do people think is the best/preffered way to conenct to my Asterisk box?
Cheers,
Rob.[/quote]
what kind of compelling reasons?
the fact that the rtp stream cannot detach from the signalling data. The fact that after 500 iax channels it becomes unstable. for a single iax channel to your provider… iax works great. As I said I use it understanding it is not the most scalable protocol.
If I am given the choice of using either types I will choose SIP.
IAX phones have signalling control and media on the same channel
and the audio appears to be choppy and noisy.
With SIP phone no QoS problem till now.
“with iax phones”? what does that mean? there are very few IAX phones out there - softphone? hardphone? any any event, i had thought the question was connecting to one’s provider, not the phone itself?