asterisk: forward disconnect and Cox

[JD Austin]

I've been toying with asterisk at home/trixbox for quite a while.
When Fonality took ownership the initial changes were nice.. the 
interface looked good/etc.
Now I think they've taken it too far; they've affected the overall 
vision in a negative way in my opinion.
Releases sometimes are VERY broken so don't assume it's you :)  Also be 
sure to get the community edition (CE) when you download Trixbox, not 
the Pro edition.  The Pro edition has a hosted web interface on their 
server for parts of it.
 
Lately I've jumped ship (I don't like their direction anymore) and 
started looking at alternatives such as adminsparadise 
(adminsparadise.com) since they're much closer to what I'd build from 
scratch if I had the time.  I use it as a jumping off point and 
immediately upgrade all of the components (asterisk, freepbx, 
avantfax,etc) and add a few more such as phpmyadmin and a few pther things.

As far as buying asterisk hardware I recommend starting on freepbx.com 
(feed the project) since it is really voipsupply.com.

JD
chip33az at netscape.net wrote:
> 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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JD Austin
Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
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