Re: Analog Telephone Adapter usage

[Tim]

Tim:
> > Being behind NAT and/or a firewall does mean you'll need to use a VOIP
> > provider.  If you had none of them in your way, or complete control over
> > them, you could run as your own service (the same as how people run
> > their own web and mail services, for instance).

Thufir:
> This is where http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAX would come into play, as
> a workaround?

Yes, and no.  Yes, you could do something like that when your network is
entirely yours to control.  No, I'd probably call it a solution, rather
than a workaround.  ;-)  I'd call *having* to be a peer on someone
else's VOIP network a workaround to networking problems.