asterisk: forward disconnect and Cox

[Jon M. Hanson]

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 at 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 at netscape.net
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> 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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