Yes, DECT has build it encryption. This is one of the reasons why DECT Skype phoneset is is beter than any wifi/bluetooth phonesets. Others include better audio bandwidth, dynamic channel allocation etc. Google for DECT primers.
Exactly. Dualphone is good stuff and delivers pretty much everything what is promised. The major drawback is (as usual) no linux support, no plans for that. I got it working with some pains in linux+vmware5.0+win2k guest (damn me if i'm going to have this pile of stuff running just for dualphone). I'm hacking the thing to make it work in linux, that mostly includes reverse engineering of the control protocol used over USB between the base station and the dialer daemon ( the architecture is pretty straightforward: PHONE BASESTATION DIALER SKYPE). Once the device works as USB audio and control protocol is known, the rest is next to trivial - matter of writing a dialer using Skype API.
I hope Linksys will do better with support and features. There are always some to wish for, as seen in the linked article. By the way, how about compiling a feature list of a perfect wireless Spkype phoneset?
Anyway, the future Linksys product seems to be in the same price range. I guess that thing being expensive is mostly due to the DECT technology (ASICS, speech coders, patented silicon IP, etc.).
cheerz, t
P.S. Another thing that ppl miss when comparing DECT skypeware with WLAN/Bluetooth/blah is that DECT has built in encryption, which is not problem free tho. For other DECT features see the primer at http://www.dectweb.com/dectforum/aboutdect/whatis. htm
Speaking about siemens M34 - it comes with customised version of Skype. Just look at it: a customised version of proprietary software, how much worse it can get? As of v.107 of sw/drivers dualphone works with standard skype, making use of its API.
acompanying software (usb driver, dialer) is windows only. specs are closed. no other os support is planned. doh! that's actually pretty stupid - they specifically market this product for skype users and the later is supported on 3 major platforms.
Olymia DU@Lphone, actually manufactured by RTX
Allows to do both Skype and land-line calls, implements DECT standard. Base station intrefaces via USB to PC and RJ-11 to PSTN.
Better than Siemens product in the way, that it does not require a separate DECT base station to do PSTN calls.
As well as Siemens Gigaset M34 USB , does not have drivers for anything but Windows. I don't think the drivers will be available, because unlike Siemens RTX does not have a signed partnership with Skype. Said to be available in December, pre-order ~100euros.
Now I wonder if it would be possibe to reverse engineer the thing and make it work with Skype in linux. Hmm, where do we start...
Does anyone know how the software for the Siemens works in Wondows? Does it involve any userspace soft dialer like all those PC/USB-to-RJ11, or the is a direct interface SkypeSiemens USB driver? I would hope for the later....
yep, do us a fovor, shoot yourself !
u wasted 7Kb of text not saying anything. and u wasted my time spent for reading this.
could someone make an opt in slashcode to filter out cats' articles
JPadPro - pretty good extensible IDE, javascript as scriptin engine. has all features u can expect from a java ide. i like it, despite it's windoze only...
sorry, i was unclear. the problem is government really CAN influence ISPs - there are certain laws that exist but nobody really follows them because of different reasons. it is ok while you are ok, otherwise this is easily used aginst you to influence/shutdown your activity. the same holds for tax laws in.ru
no-no, no russian componies... they are ok so far. But... there's such thing as SORM-2 (that's russian abbreviation for special searching and investigation activities). SORM-1 included phone tapping and such stuff during soviet years. Now here is SORM-2 which is about to become a law (or already is). To put it simple it suggests that each ISP should have a dedicated line to FSB/FAPSI (special presidential information agency) to allow certain authorities control/check content flowing thru that ISP. Of course between makin a law and it's realisation in.ru there is huge distance... So for now it's ok, but who knows what will happen next years. I wouldn't rely on current situation.
here in Finland many banks offer such services as paying bills online for quite a time by now. (e.g. Osuuspankki). snail-mail statement copies are optional. security... well, not to strong. SSL with 40bit keys. plus l/p authentication (UID=6 digit number, password 4 digit number:)) in addition bank gives you a list of transaction codes (transaction number + transaction code, 4 digit number ) which you should use whenever they ask you for code(which usualy happens once when you are payiong bill). this list includes ~100 transactions codes. when they all are used, you should go to bank for new list. additional service include money transfer to other accounts, currency exchange etc. this service is free for persons under 27 and cost 10FIM (1.6$) per month to all others.
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Yes, DECT has build it encryption. This is one of the reasons why DECT Skype phoneset is is beter than any wifi/bluetooth phonesets. Others include better audio bandwidth, dynamic channel allocation etc. Google for DECT primers.
Exactly. Dualphone is good stuff and delivers pretty much everything what is promised. The major drawback is (as usual) no linux support, no plans for that. I got it working with some pains in linux+vmware5.0+win2k guest (damn me if i'm going to have this pile of stuff running just for dualphone). I'm hacking the thing to make it work in linux, that mostly includes reverse engineering of the control protocol used over USB between the base station and the dialer daemon ( the architecture is pretty straightforward:
. htm
PHONE BASESTATION DIALER SKYPE). Once the device works as USB audio and control protocol is known, the rest is next to trivial - matter of writing a dialer using Skype API.
I hope Linksys will do better with support and features. There are always some to wish for, as seen in the linked article. By the way, how about compiling a feature list of a perfect wireless Spkype phoneset?
Anyway, the future Linksys product seems to be in the same price range. I guess that thing being expensive is mostly due to the DECT technology (ASICS, speech coders, patented silicon IP, etc.).
cheerz,
t
P.S. Another thing that ppl miss when comparing DECT skypeware with WLAN/Bluetooth/blah is that DECT has built in encryption, which is not problem free tho. For other DECT features see the primer at
http://www.dectweb.com/dectforum/aboutdect/whatis
Speaking about siemens M34 - it comes with customised version of Skype. Just look at it: a customised version of proprietary software, how much worse it can get? As of v.107 of sw/drivers dualphone works with standard skype, making use of its API.
acompanying software (usb driver, dialer) is windows only. specs are closed. no other os support is planned. doh!
that's actually pretty stupid - they specifically market this product for skype users and the later is supported on 3 major platforms.
seems the torrent doesn't work that well in this case. couldn't get any peers/seeds to even start dling.
r ray-3.5-live/
here's the ftp link.
ftp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/hoary/a
Olymia DU@Lphone, actually manufactured by RTX
Allows to do both Skype and land-line calls, implements DECT standard.
Base station intrefaces via USB to PC and RJ-11 to PSTN. Better than Siemens product in the way, that it does not require a separate DECT base station to do PSTN calls.
As well as Siemens Gigaset M34 USB , does not have drivers for anything but Windows. I don't think the drivers will be available, because unlike Siemens RTX does not have a signed partnership with Skype.
Said to be available in December, pre-order ~100euros.
Now I wonder if it would be possibe to reverse engineer the thing and make it work with Skype in linux. Hmm, where do we start...
Does anyone know how the software for the Siemens works in Wondows? Does it involve any userspace soft dialer like all those PC/USB-to-RJ11, or the is a direct interface SkypeSiemens USB driver? I would hope for the later....
a bit more complicated stuff than in the article, antennae's from finland
free msn client, written in tcl
not nearly as feature reach as original product, but works anyway
http://msn.compucreations.com/
yep, do us a fovor, shoot yourself !
u wasted 7Kb of text not saying anything. and u wasted my time spent for reading this.
could someone make an opt in slashcode to filter out cats' articles
JPadPro - pretty good extensible IDE, javascript as scriptin engine. has all features u can expect from a java ide. i like it, despite it's windoze only...
sorry, i was unclear. the problem is government really CAN influence ISPs - there are certain laws that exist but nobody really follows them because of different reasons. it is ok while you are ok, otherwise this is easily used aginst you to influence/shutdown your activity. .ru
the same holds for tax laws in
no-no, no russian componies... they are ok so far. But... there's such thing as SORM-2 (that's russian abbreviation for special searching and investigation activities). SORM-1 included phone tapping and such stuff during soviet years. Now here is SORM-2 which is about to become a law (or already is). To put it simple it suggests that each ISP should have a dedicated line to FSB/FAPSI (special presidential information agency) to allow certain authorities control/check content flowing thru that ISP. Of course between makin a law and it's realisation in .ru there is huge distance... So for now it's ok, but who knows what will happen next years. I wouldn't rely on current situation.
here in Finland many banks offer such services as paying bills online for quite a time by now. (e.g. Osuuspankki). snail-mail statement copies are optional. :))
security... well, not to strong. SSL with 40bit keys.
plus l/p authentication (UID=6 digit number, password 4 digit number
in addition bank gives you a list of transaction codes (transaction number + transaction code, 4 digit number ) which you should use whenever they ask you for code(which usualy happens once when you are payiong bill). this list includes ~100 transactions codes. when they all are used, you should go to bank for new list.
additional service include money transfer to other accounts, currency exchange etc.
this service is free for persons under 27 and cost 10FIM (1.6$) per month to all others.