London Proxy Server - Page 2

teardropglass · #11 (**permalink**) February 7th, 2005, 06:16 PM

I just spoke with BV customer service telling them that I am still struggling to get decent call quality from Switzerland, and the BV guy said that I could try to use proxy-lhr.broadvoice.com, but when he registered me on that one it didn't work. He provisioned my device to proxy-lhr.broadvoice.com, but nothing happened, and then after another phone call he set it back to proxy-dca.broadvoice.com.

I tried to ping proxy.lhr.broadvoice.com, but to no avail. London.broadvoice.com still produces a test shelf response using ping trace route.

The Tech later told me in an e-mail that it'll be soon out of test.

Cheers

VOIP_knight · #12 (**permalink**) February 7th, 2005, 11:35 PM

For Your Info - "lhr" in the "proxy-lhr.broadvoice.com" stands for London Heathrow in air travel circles.

Cool

craig · #13 (**permalink**) February 8th, 2005, 08:51 AM

They're all airport codes, aren't they? Most look just like city abreviations, but DCA is National (Washington DC). My personal favorite is YYZ, but it doesn't have anything to do with airplanes or VoIP

jpeisen · #14 (**permalink**) February 8th, 2005, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craig

My personal favorite is YYZ, but it doesn't have anything to do with airplanes or VoIP

Dang it! Now I have the opening of that song running through my head! :wink:

-John

deavod · #15 (**permalink**) February 8th, 2005, 02:54 PM

They didn't do Chicago right then -- it's proxy.chi.broadvoice.com but the airport is O'Hare and it is ORD. But I guess that doesn't sound anything like Chicago

craig · #16 (**permalink**) February 8th, 2005, 04:22 PM

According to this site http://gc.kls2.com/airport/CHI it's called the Great Circle Airport. It's probably some little commuter airport, much like the City of London airport. I've never been there, nor ever heard of it, but that's what came up on Google.

mberlant · #17 (**permalink**) February 9th, 2005, 01:32 PM

At the risk of taking this topic even further off course than it already is, there is no such thing as Great Circle Airport. CHI is an IATA pseudo-city code. Had there been an airport in the 48 States it's ICAO code would be KCHI. There is no KCHI because that would be confused with CHI. CHI's purpose in airline computers is to have a code that will match all of the commercial airports in the Chicago Area.

O'Hare's code, ORD (KORD), comes from its name before Mr. O'Hare died and had the airport renamed after him. It used to be named Orchard Air Field.

craig · #18 (**permalink**) February 9th, 2005, 01:44 PM

Thanks for the clarification. And you're right, it is way off topic, but it gives us something to discuss until the real London proxy is made available

teardropglass · #19 (**permalink**) February 23rd, 2005, 02:08 PM

In a conversation with BV customer service the other day, he indicated that BV's future plans are to get the London server out of beta testing, and live, then they will be looking to install at least one other server in Europe. He also mentioned a server in SE Asia somewhere.

Except for the London server, it sounds as if the other ones are still on the drawing board. I think that the EU-based additional server sounded more solid than the SE Asian one for the moment.

Cheers