FAD Fedora Talk tech items

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Generally from my experience the primary things that effect VoIP would
be Packet loss, and Latency. There are tons of other things such as RF
noise etc.. however those shouldnt* be an issue. 

Packet loss is going to be pretty obvious across the "wire" due to the
way it is normally handled (fill in dropped packet with previous packets
data). 

With that said depending on the wireless (signal strength / noise) there
could be potential issues (packet loss, distortion, static, delay in
sound), however if there are this can be easily mitigated by the use of
the hard line. Just my 2 cents. - Tim

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:11 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Two tech items I wanted to clear up for Fedora Talk FAD:
> 
> First, qe discussed earlier using softphones for consistency and less
> equipment-lugging.  Didn't hear any votes against so that's all we're
> planning at this point.  It also makes sense to concentrate on that
> use because the majority of people using Fedora Talk are likely using
> softphones.
> 
> Second, network setup at the site.  I talked to the owner of the
> office we'll be using and he says they have a wide-open wireless,
> *and* a wired connection we can feel free to use which is the same
> thing their wireless plugs into.  I'm going to scoot over there on
> Friday if I can, and test how things work with a softphone.  I didn't
> get any hints from anyone on what special tests I needed to do beyond
> trying to hook up to Fedora Talk and make and receive a call, so
> that's all I plan to do unless someone tells me otherwise.
>