SIP over TCP

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If you really needed it, why not run asterisks at your house and use it as trunk to VOIPO and as gateway to your mobile. My um "friend" does this and it works really well esp when in foreign countries where voice costs money but you can typically find free wifi

I’m aware of this, but this is not an ideal solution (a home Internet connection is generally not business class, latency and jitter will likely go up, a single Asterisk box is not fault tolerant and etcetera).

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I’m aware of this, but this is not an ideal solution (a home Internet connection is generally not business class, latency and jitter will likely go up, a single Asterisk box is not fault tolerant and etcetera).

the only point I can agree with you here is the fault tolerance and it being a single point of failure.

With any home voip service your internet connection is the limiting factor, so you already have this QOS factor in place. Plus the mobile networks are more more jittery and have a higher latency then your home service could ever dish out.

If you were concerned about your home service you could configure asterisk to not act as your media server and instead would be used for signaling the media would be point to point from your mobile to "voipo"

If you were more concerned about the quality of your mobile provider you could configure asterisk to act as a media server and transcode to GSM/729/ILBC/ect and provide buffering between the two services.

If excellent voice quality, no jitter, and no latency were your goals then you wouldn't even consider 4g connectivity

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the only point I can agree with you here is the fault tolerance and it being a single point of failure.

With any home voip service your internet connection is the limiting factor, so you already have this QOS factor in place. Plus the mobile networks are more more jittery and have a higher latency then your home service could ever dish out.

If you were concerned about your home service you could configure asterisk to not act as your media server and instead would be used for signaling the media would be point to point from your mobile to "voipo"

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If excellent voice quality, no jitter, and no latency were your goals then you wouldn't even consider 4g connectivity

I guess you have a point here/I didn’t realize Asterisk could be used for signaling only. I might revisit my options here and the idea of setting up a small Asterisk VM on my ESXi box at home.

Thanks for chiming in.