I’ve added Future Nine to the list of servers whose ping time I monitor. Even though they are a US based company they have a sip server in Europe and incoming numbers in the UK for only $5/month.

So if you’re in the UK/Europe and looking for a voip provider with competative prices it might be worth checking them out.

You can see the current ping from my servers to theirs here – http://sysadminman.net/uk-voip-vps-pings.html

If you’re looking for a softphone to use with Asterisk X-Lite is great.  It works on both Windows and Linux, although the configuration screens are a little different on the different versions.

All you should need to get it working with Asterisk are the following settings  (screenshot from the Windows version) -

Continue reading ‘SIP soft phone — using X-Lite with Asterisk’ »