Re: asterisk: forward disconnect and Cox

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
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chip33az@netscape.net
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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
> >
>
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