asterisk: forward disconnect and Cox

[chip33az at netscape.net]

D'oh!  I was going to look at the GS budget phones (for the price).

Thanks for the information.  I have a spare box that I was going to set 
up over the weekend with Trixbox and see how it works.

jd at twingeckos.com 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 at netscape.net
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at 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 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
>>   
>>     
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