Anarchogeek

VOIP over Starband

Tonight we got back to the cabin after spending the week at the VOIP for social change sprint. It was lots of fun, we learned how to use and configure asterisk and we outlined a number of interesting applications with plans about how they will be implemented.

Just to check out the system we'd been using i tried to connect to blaine when he said he'd gotten the asterisk to PSTN gateway to call normal phones via a gateway provider. Low and behold, it worked, i could call blaine on his cell phone from my laptop in the mountains over the high latency starband satellite connection.

In the morning the first thing i'm going to do is sign up for my own number and account and have a phone here. There was a real world wait of about 1.5 seconds, which made it a little worse than a normal phone call, but better than CB where you had to indicate you were done talking.