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well as Swindon is about to get free public WiFi ( http://www.getsignal.co.uk/ ) and I have a Nokia n97 I figured I may as well take advantage of this and VoIP meself up all nice...
any suggestions as to whats the best method and who to use for free calls?
really? any experience with SIPgate?
oh, this is useful you say? it gives you back the VoIP capability the operators hobbled on the n97 eh?
http://winkstreaming.com/en/n97_sip/
nice one, anything else you can suggest?
I tried Skype but it wanted you to make the local call the pick it up, kinda defeated the point of it. Fring was ok but I can't get it to install on my n95 since the firmware was updated. Appeared to work but the phone was so shonkey I made little difference and didn't stay operational long enough to try it.
I use Fring on my N86 to register to a SIP account I've got with my ISP. Wouldn't use it outside of my own WiFi LAN as SIP/RTP is all in the clear, all it takes is someone to use a open WiFi point to sniff all the traffic and glean all the passwords for your email/SIP etc.. For any public WiFi I use Skype, as at least it's protocols are not in the public domain.
mmmm I wonder if Orange will get all shirty if I use my "unlimited internet" usage for VoIP, any ideas on what amount of data a 5 min call would use?
A lot of mobile operators block VoIP traffic or exclude it from the 'unlimited internet' unless you pay a premium for it.
G729a Codec (If you can control what Codec is used) with 20ms (2 samples) you are looking at roughly about 24Kbps
yep on the n97 you can edit pretty much every setting going codec's etc, I feel as though I've managed to kick over a sizable bucket of worms! well I've got SIPgate up and running and the test call worked, freetard alert! are there such things as free VoIP services or do they all require some form of payment (immortal soul, cash money, first born, etc)