I, too, would like to eventually get Asterisk set up at hy mouse if for no other reason to say I have my own PBX (not to mention the extensive features that Asterisk has). I'm thinking of installing Asterisk@Home (now TrixBox). Fortunately my entire house (phone jacks and network jacks) are all CAT 5e so it should be really simple to set up IP phones throughout the house. I am going to need the analog adaptor for my cordless phone and the add-in card to interface with the PSTN (I'm not going pure voice-over-IP). Can someone make some recomendations for the analog phone adaptors? Also, I'd like some links on where to find the PSTN interface cards below if possible. I actually have two incoming lines (one goes to a fax machine). Is there a way for Asterisk to detect an incoming fax and then store it for e-mailing or display later? If so then I wouldn't need the separate line and I could just let Asterisk automatically detect an incoming fax call. On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:09:38AM -0700, JD wrote: > Asterisk is cool! > If you're going all voip you don't need pstn hardware. > > Sangoma and rhino cards are usually less expensive and have built in echo cancellation. > The x100p cards aren't very good; get tdm400 card if you go digium. > > As far as ip phones...polycom, aastra, snom are good; grandstream 2000 is ok; stay away from grandstream budget phones. > JD > > -- > sent from phone > > -----Original Message----- > From: chip33az@netscape.net > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Sent: 9/26/07 7:51 AM > Subject: Re: asterisk: forward disconnect and Cox > > I will be looking into Asterisk very shortly as my company will no > longer pay for my home office phone line. I have Vonage now and like > it, but it costs more than I use. I'm thinking of going with VoicePulse > for the long distance/phone service. > > Have you looked at the actual digium cards? They sell for about $140, > but are supposed to be the best out there. > > PLUGd@LuftHans.com wrote: > > moin moin, > > > > still trying to get Asterisk working in my spare nanoseconds. > > > > I found documentation suggestion I verify that "disconnect supervision" > > aka "forward disconnect" is enabled. > > > > I hadn't realized we have Cox phone service rather than Qwest. Sorry for > > not having that info on previous emails. > > > > Just talked to phone tech support at Cox ( after getting Internet tech > > support twice and being disconnected ). The person was nice, patient and > > appeared to be willing to help out. She didn't know what "disconnect > > supervision" or "forward disconnect" were, so put me on hold to talk to > > internal tech support. > > > > The response she got was that my answering device isn't compatable with > > Cox phone service :(. > > > > Does having service via Cox rather than Qwest change what I need to do to > > get Asterisk to recognize call initiation and termination? Asterisk > > doesn't recognize hangups and ties up the line for long periods of time. > > Some might see this as a bonus :). > > > > Do I need to call it something else when asking for support from Cox? > > > > Any recommendations for a card that actually works? I want to connect to a > > POTS line for receiving and initiating phone calls. I want the possibility > > of that POTS line to be whatever source of POTS lines we get in the > > Phoenix area. > > > > I also want to ring through the phone card to a phone. > > > > I also want to use a small Sipura SIP box that has 2 RJ11 connectors and > > can handle two phones. > > > > There are many other things I want to do, but that's the initial setup. If > > I can get that working such that I don't break it with further > > experimentation I can play with Asterisk. > > > > ciao, > > > > der.hans > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss