blinnov’s blog

As many other happy owners of one of latest (well, it was released more than year ago, but it is still quite modern) gadget from Nokia, I could only use a fraction of its features, which it has in abundance. There are some rarely used (has anyone ever used “barcode scanner”? ), some just not frequent, but some of them are just not easy to use. And some have bugs despite it has been a long time since phone’s firmware was first released.

Device has WI-FI. And SIP VoIP client. And I was desperate to find a way to make cheap, or, better, free international calls. Finding VoIP provided isn’t hard – there are plenty of them around, and I am currently with JustVoIP (free landline calls to some countries, particularly to one I am interested in, guess which one), but getting communicator working with it was something similar to playing DOOM 2 on “Nightmare”. Yes, every time, again and again, I was getting wise error message “Unable to connect to the connection server”. No explanation why and what to do about it.

You, probably, already came across small truckload of Nokia SIP setup guide, but still could not get that working, as I did. Well, this is not because these guides suck, they just miss a point.

Before configuring SIP, make sure you switch Wireless power saving off. On my Nokia it was of by default, which, I guess leads session initiation to break when phone thinks nobody uses WiFi.

To switch power saving off, go to: Settings->Connection->Wireless Lan->Option->Advanced settings. Power saving option will be at the bottom, switch it off.

Now you can return to your provider’s connection guide and repeat attempt. A couple of other points I also noticed are:

• Always enter your public name as xxxx@myvoipprovider.com, where xxx is username or SIP number they provided to you. Don’t forget to replace myvoipprovider.com with your provider’s domain name
• It may be worthwhile using server IP address instead of domain name in proxy and registrar server options
• I could not find how “Realm” affects the connection
• User name is case sensitive!

In my case, justvoip started to work right after I switched power saving off. Voip quality rocks – people on the other side of globe think I somewhere much closer

Well, only 50 minutes from Gordon to Woy Woy today. As it was before.

They opened Woy Woy road in one direction and it apparently eased a pressure on evening commuters. But there are no evidences of any work in progress at Bulls hill, everything I could notice was a barricade and 25 km/h signs.

Another question is why did it open it in one direction only – while there is only one line available it still could be reversible, all they need is bring a pair of temporary radio controlled traffic lights and put them on the top and on the bottom of the hill – they do it all the time around roadwork sites anyway! In peak hour the whole thing could be one-directional, but there is no point of leaving it like this permanently – the traffic there has always been far from heavy and a couple of minutes wait in front of light would be much better than 25 minutes “drive” from Tascot to West Gosford.

Did they just never consider this option or there was another reason?