VOIP issue

     Ron, you didn't indicate if the phones were connecting via direct IP or if they were registering to a central VoIP system (like Asterisk on FreePBX or similar).  In the everyday SIP VoIP world (non-mesh) if we encounter no audio it often means the UDP ports 10000 thru 20000 are not open.  Port 5060 is used for control and registration but audio is generally controlled by the 10000 to 20000 range.  If I were doing the testing I'd get both phones on a test bench LAN not related to mesh, have an Asterisk system both phones register to, then test for full functionality.  That way you can eliminate the phones as the issue.  Just a thought.  Good luck.

73, Bill, N4SV

If possible; try dialing via direct IP address if possible; strictly as a test.  Everytime our local PBX seems to have an issue... I try the IP address dialing to see if it's the phone(s) or the PBX having the problem.

Do the phones allow IP address dialing ?

http://www.tim-yvonne.com/ham/mesh/1630/index.htm

I have contacted Ron via telephone over the mesh as well as email. In addition, I went into his node and looked at the link quality to his neighbor, with whom he is trying to speak.

At the time I looked, his link quality was 40 at best, sometimes dropping to single digits. At that point, I couldn't even get to the home page of his neighbor, let alone see a nodes list. So, IMHO, it seems like he is looking at a link problem overall. I emailed him with my findings and comments but haven't heard anything back on what I had to say.

In addition, I received an email from him to the effect that he is turning off hils tunnel(s) and will just do stand-alone meshing. So, I don't know where this is going to go from here.

Thanks to everyone for your comments.

73, Mark, N2MH