> From: Jared Anderson
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:58 AM
> Trying to move the conversations away.  This list is awfully grumpy this
> week - everyone must still be hung over from the holiday weekend.
> 
> I am curious if anyone has set up an IP phone network with open source
> software and typical PC hardware.  I have a wireless LAN and was thinking
> how much better my life would be if I could answer the phone from my
> wireless laptop.  Anybody have this type of setup out there?  A bit of
> googling and some portage groping have spawned some leads, but I don't
> want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have too.


Jared, Can you be more specific? Are you for a solution to allow you to use
your home PSTN (analog) telephone line from your laptop? Or do you want to
use a VoIP termination provider from your laptop?

If it's the former, as others have mentioned, an Asterisk server
(http://www.asterisk.org) with a X100P FXO interface card from
http://www.digium.com and a SoftPhone such as xPro or eyebeam from
http://www.xten.com running on your laptop with a headset will allow you to
do that.

However, if all you want to do is use your analog phone line cordlessly,
it'd really be far simpler to just get a 5.8 GHz cordless phone... 

But, if you want to do stuff such as multiple voicemail boxes, have your
voicemail emailed to you, using a VoIP provider for termination, Find Me
Follow Me (give callers one number which goes to Asterisk, and it then rings
all your phones), Interactive Voice Response menus with Text-to-Speech,
Black Listing calls by CallerID Number, and more! (whew), then you might
want to look into Asterisk.

--Brian

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