User talk:OmniNegro

VoIP gateway

There's an article needed on that topic. Fancy writing it? There are already plenty of uses of the term on WP, just waiting to be inbound links.Andy Dingley (talk) 00:01, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. I will give it a try. But I am still fairly new to writing articles. OmniNegro (talk) 02:57, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Cool - thanks for your efforts so far. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:10, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

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What's an "SIP relay"?

Hi OmniNegro
I hope you don't mind me tidying up the VoIP gateway article, at least the bits of it I understood. (My understanding of how computers work is "there are a whole lot of really tiny ones and zeros, some of which change around and some don't... [complete mystery region] ... and the monitor shows you the stuff you input with the keyboard and the mouse".)
Feel free to ask anything that a person whose mobile phone is 7 years old can answer! --Shirt58 (talk) 04:33, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Well, SIP "Relay" may not be the correct term. I honestly do not always know what that part should be called. But the simple explanation is that the SIP "Relay" is the Internet Server that receives the audio packets sent by a VOIP gateway, and decompresses them into pure PCM audio that can then be fed by a device I know almost nothing about into a plain, ordinary telephone line. The SIP relay is usually a paid service and it works both ways. When you talk into your VOIP gateway via a telephone plugged into it, the Relay decompresses the signal and sends it to the actual phone line on the other side((s) of the call. It also takes the audio data sent via the phone on the other side and compresses it into the data suitable for transmitting over the Internet to your VOIP gateway.

I lack the words to explain it much better than this. But I can demonstrate in a way that is not suitable for putting on the page. Perhaps after reading this example you can help me figure out what I need to put in the article? Here is an external link to a SIP relay that I use. I pay a pretty low price compared to what a local phone service would usually cost, but I pay per minute used.

https://www.callcentric.com/support/device/linksys/spa3102 If you skip to step five and six you will see that step five tells you to click the SIP page of the configuration of the device. Step six then calls the thing I am calling an SIP "Relay" the "Proxy". I honestly have no idea why they call it that.

I resisted linking this and similar pages into the article since it is an explanation for a particular commercial service, and would be rejected at once for that if I understand what I have read so far on Wikipedia. I am not a very good writer, and I have yet to figure out how to explain the concept without linking to things like this. Any advise you have is more than welcomed. :) OmniNegro (talk) 05:02, 1 September 2012 (UTC)