[ale] NewbieQ: VOIP and AU-100 Handset work for Linux?

[Jim]

I have a Grandstream, Budgetone 100 ethernet phone that is connected to 
my Asterisk PBX on a Linux box, but since it plugs into the ethernet, I 
suspect it could connect directly to a voip provider on the internet 
that supports that hardware with changes to my router to open the right 
ports up.  It's my understanding the Skype does a proprietary protocol 
to the phone, so it has to be running special firmware.  The Grandstream 
is OK however there is a little echo on the other end, they tell me.  I 
used a Softphone with Skype with great success.  I imagine the hard 
phone will work equally well.

Jim.
Mills, John M. wrote:

>ALErs -
>
>I see before me in a glowing Firefox frame an ad for a VOIP "handset",
>USB phone, that claims to work with lots of OS, "no driver software
>required", and wondered whether ALErs are using this or similar gadgets
>for Skype calls.
>
>TIA for any background on such HW.
>
>Not that I know anyone to call ...
>
> - Mills
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