Re: VOIP and Bluetooth Headset?!?!

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fantastic Patrick thank you.

Could you ask your friend which Jabra headset he's using?

I have a very old (well in gadget terms anyway!) sony ericsson HBH-20
I think it is headset so im guessing thats not helping my problems!

My ibook is wireless all the time pretty much and im happy enough with
the call quality!

will take a look at the sipura read up on it a bit, an asterisk server
is on the todo list so at some stage im going to need some hard phones
for that so if i can find some that support bluetooth then all the better.

ideally what i want is for all phones to ring and have the option to
pick it up with either the bluetooth headset or any hard phone! but
thats for the future! hehe

Cheers

Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "patrick_o_matic" <patrick@l...>
wrote:
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "noel_pilot" <HA@a...> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> > Saw some discussion recently about trying to get a WIFI pda
working
> > for voip (might have been skype) with a bluetooth headset,
> >
> > seemed like the conclusion was you can't really do it cos of the
> > conflict between wireless frequencies etc.
>
> It is very device dependent - some work, some don't.
>
> > Would love to get a bluetooth headset working with my ibook for
xlite
> > but it killing me trying to get it working, never seems stable at
all
> > and never opens up the link to the headset when i make a call!
grr
>
> I have a bluetooth headset (Sony Ericsson HBH-200) working
> satisfactorily with an IBM thinkpad which is WiFi enabled. The
> connection between the headset and the PC has to be initiated from the
>  headset end on my setup (by pressing the call hangup button!). Works
> just fine. I have a mate who has an iBook (not sure which model, I can
> find out), and he also uses a Jabra headset with his OK concurrently
> with WiFi.
>
> > Any advice or options out there? could be tempted to a proper IP
> > phone/cordless phone if i could get a handsfree kit for it, or
even a
> > cordless phone and thena VOIP adapter if necessary?
>
> This is an excellent way to go if you want to be able to make and
> receive VOIP calls without being tethered to a PC / having a PC
> switched on and logged in. Incidentally, the latest upgrade to the
> Sipura SPA 3000 (a popular VOIP adapter) firmware now seems to fully
> support BT caller id with the inclusion of payphone / international
> and withheld indicators.
>
> > Extra little question.....these VOIP QOS routers that netgear et
al
> > are selling, if you plug a POTS phone into them they regulate the
> > internet traffic from the rest of the network so that voice calls
get
> > priority, thats great for the pots phones but what if you are
using a
> > proper IP phone?
> >
> > Are they clever enough to know that ip phones are making voice
calls
> > too or are we not there yet?!
>
> It *should* be possible to configure any QoS router to give priority
> to arbitrary traffic on a specific port. Unless your network is really
> heavily loaded, I'd be surprised if you really needed one - VOIP uses
> a relatively small amount of bandwidth. What really knackers VOIP
> connections is dropped packets and jitter. In a domestic environment
> you shouldn't be seeing dropped packets inside your network provided
> the wiring is up to scratch, and the rest is outside of your control.
>
> It's also worth mentioning that in my experience the latency of
> wireless wifi connections is such that there is a noticeable
> degradation in call quality - not to the point that it is unusable,
> but you can definitely hear it.
>
> Patrick
>