asterisk: forward disconnect and Cox

[chip33az at netscape.net]

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 at 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
>