IP Telephony (VoIP)
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Make free phone calls between members without time limits, over the Air-Stream network. Sorry no public phone system access.
Contact committee to setup an account.
VoIP Software
There is free sip phone software and many hardware sip phones on the market.
Links to software see www.voip-info.org/
The most popular used on the Air-Stream network is X-Lite
There is also SJphone
VoIP Server
The VoIP server is located at Melrose Park.
IP: 10.114.2.4
Port: 5060
Set these details on your phone or program including your username and password. account details are given to you when your VoIP account is made.
Air-Stream is operating Asterisk server and is available for all members to use. Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on BSD/Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more.
Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
For more information about Asterisk visit www.asterisk.org
Air-Stream VoIP Directory
Currently this is in test mode but working, if you would like a phone account contact committee to setup.
Directory of current numbers are here http://10.114.2.4/panel/
Asterisk* Voice over IP
Air-Stream Wireless is operating an Asterisk Server over wireless which is available to all members to use. Asterisk is a complete PBX Open Source software system. It runs on BSD/Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more.
Why not enjoy this IP experience and keep in touch with your fellow members any time. More Information here...
Success Story
I've just setup two IP phones this weekend and was surprised how simple the whole process was.
My partner Ann talks to her mother on the phone each day and often her mother calls us as well, so they are on the phone to each other at least three times a day if not more.
So I thought it was about time I did something about this, given that I had convinced Ann’s parents to be a host one of Air-Stream’s APs on their roof, it seemed an ideal situation to really test the voip system over wireless. Specially as it will give her parents another really good reason for keeping those strange Antennas on their roof, other than just good community spirit.
At home I have set up a local AP which is on the Air-Stream network and could already connect to this using a wireless SIP phone I have ZyXEL P2000W WiFi .
I also had another Grandstream BudgeTone 101 which is an Ethernet phone so to make that wireless I connected directly to an old Minitar. This was the idea choice for Ann’s parents as it looks and operates like any domestic phone. The Minitar I told them was just a modem to connect them on the network. This was an easy concept for two people in their late +60s.
The Minitar was used to associated to the AP on their roof and then it was just a matter of configuring the handset to have an IP on the Air-Stream network.
I got an account for them on the Air-Stream Asterisk Server and once this was done I configured each handset with outgoing and proxy SIP settings to pont to the Asterisk Server at 10.114.2.4.
It really worked well and the sound quality is better than that of a domestic phone other than the odd click here there, due to data traffic on the network, but I expect Qos might fix this, but still not that you would notice.
Also the handsets work just like a normal phone and it took Ann’s mum no time to start using it frequently ;-|