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My youngest son was writing santa a letter on his iPad. He came a little bit ago and asked me to also sound this letter that he wrote to Microsoft...

So the issue appears to be with FreePBX's GUI not offering video codec settings in the web interface for PJSIP.

I was able to set it on each extension as per the comments in this bug report...

https://issues.freepbx.org/browse/FREEPBX-11577

And you have to set it as: h264,ulaw,alaw under allowed codes under Advanced in each setting.

Now I am trying to figure out if I can get phones on the same remote LAN to send RTP streams direct (phone to phone) so that the video doesn't freeze up. It's really more of a gimick I think (the video calling). Seems like it would be annoying to have people peeking in at you over intercom all day.

But still, I would like to figure out how to get the direct RTP stream going. This can be done in Freeswitch so I imagine Asterisk will do it. Not sure the GUI would have a setting for it though.

@dashrender said in I am going to start an ISP:

@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:

After thinking it over the weekend, I think I'm going to stick with Wifi, because other companies using "wireless" gives the connotations of a cell phone company.

Examples:
"Verizon Wireless"
"AT&T Wireless"
"Sprint Wireless"

In this company, I am still using wifi technologies (IEEE 802.11ac technologies to be exact) in order to operate this company. Therefore, the "wifi" is staying. This may take some customer re-education but I do believe that it is an important differentiator to make.

Interesting - I've never used a WISP before, I just assumed the communications to the tower was something other than typical WiFi frequencies.

How does using WiFi like this affect network saturation in an area?

Frequencies are licensed at millions of dollars per year. The only WISP I have ever known to have done this is Clearwire, who's parent company technically owned the spectrum.

In the white space you are just competing with local HAM guys. Newer gear allows the multiplexing of multiple CPE's on a single frequency. I think even UBNT has done this for a while. So that generally solves the problem.

Bigger issue is always weather moving CPE around. If you use the best mounting gear its less frequent.

There are plenty of WISPS that offer dedicated internet and charge premium prices i.e. 100mb up/down for $2,000 per month with a financially backed SLA.

@tim_g said in SAM for President!:

@nerdydad said in SAM for President!:

Who's with me? No matter what side of the aisle you are on, it seems that America could use a real leader. I can already see the ticket now.

Miller / Busch for President

Who would vote for that?

Why not... politics are no longer a background requirement for presidency.

Yeah but no matter what side of the isle you're on that's also a "thank god"

Thought I would share some screen shots of FreePBX 14 as I am waiting for it to load up.

"Recommended Asterisk 13" I thought we were finally going to version 14? Still some hesitation I guess?

New options

New Feature: Now you can be Spammed about Sangoma phones during installation, too.

"Designed for the most demanding user"

Actually uninstalled these over the weekend and put Iwatsu phones in place for a customer who just really wanted the 4-line phones backs.

So I have 9, nearly new T58V Yealink phones with no boxes. Will sell or trade for... ?

Apparently Microsoft Teams Edition is coming for these...

“You have to take a corner at 1/60th of a second over 29,000 times for over 5 hours.

At one point the game runs out of memory and half the screen turns to garble.”

This man is a modern day superhero...

Youtube Video

The Intel NUC with Kaby Lake and an SSD Drive and 8GB of memory would probably be around $400. That is the Core i3 CPU. Not in a place where I could spec it out.

@gjacobse said in Uninstalled Yealink T58V for old Key System:

I don't @scottalanmiller would go for them... Heck - I can't blame him... Who'd want to see me on their phone:

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/celebrity-big-brother-140913-gary-busey.jpg

The best part of wakin up is SAM drinking folders in your... Android Based IP Phone?

@scottalanmiller said in Amplifi HD vs ERX and and AP/AC Long Range:

@bigbear said in Amplifi HD vs ERX and and AP/AC Long Range:

This Amplifi has turned out to be 1000% than Google WiFi, just wanted to offer some feedback....

Still dont have a necklace camera on anyone's christmas list though, is it still a thing?

I feel like that fad is over

Perhaps ahead of its time.. like the Microsoft Origami and Apple Newton.

@scottalanmiller Just emailed the main developer tonight to talk about security with public deployments (i.e. vultr) so we can get a similar guide together like the ones @JaredBusch has provided for FreePBX

Wish I was at MangoCon right now...

@scottalanmiller said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

Honestly it's Citron that looks like fraud. That article is straight out of Facebook "You'll be shocked to learn what happened next...." land. It's red flags of false journalism all over it.

Do they make a point? Not one that I saw. Basically they sound jealous. Their complaints are that UBNT is doing well and they don't like the CEO. They don't complain about anything real. Just words used and the success numbers. And Citron goes on and on about how they expose more fraud than anyone. They sound like Donald Trump writing Facebook ad copy.

I agree but almost anything legit in wallstreet has this feel. Andrew Left has been on CNBC and has been right in the past. I think with some issue with the way some drug companies inflated sales.

However, after watching the video, he clearly is wrong about the way the community works. While there are definitely not 4 million ACTIVE community members we are all big fans of UBNT and I see it regularly recommended, particularly over Netgear. And yes, UBNT makes Netgear look like idiots.

Still this insane camera on a necklace thing smacks of dissolution and perhaps a grasping at straws for a miracle product to fix hidden woes.

Literally everything on the 16th floor of the Mead HQ (before many mergers and acquisitions)

A company would come in with 9 cases full of tape backups, from Backup Exec software. Backup tapes were changed by a team of 4 across the hallway around the clock, 7 days a week and moved off site, then back onsite for re-use.

My feeling on the matter...

Makes no sense. The ML team is pretty transparent about advertising their business, just see the banner ads to your right. OP is clearly a disgruntled troll.

There is no sign-up form so there is no argument about self promotion. Even if they were partners in something and not mentioning their participation they are probably losing business and so there is still no scandal.

I remember sitting with a Broadcloud rep 18 months ago and they were worried about how SFB on Office 365 would affect their business. Still find it amusing that we took it as a serious threat.

I still have a lot of hope for FusionPBX and some other open source products as well.

Good time for me to declare I am affiliated with...

Big Bear's VoIP and Tackle Supply Company

@stacksofplates last time I tried to ditch PS for Gimp I felt like I couldn't do anything I needed but maybe it was just a learning curve.

https://wikileaks.org/vault8/

@steve I have been talking about ML on IRC of late. Not familiar with this company but I would give a 1 up for not posting from a fake account with a pretty female model...