On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Why would you need a data link from them? You could use their data
link,
but the jitter is not really optimal. I suppose your office already
has
a decent ADSL or whatever data link. Why bother?
I would not. What I was interested in, which seems like a bad idea
financially, was to route all of my families phone calls while at home
over the asterisk system and have use the cellular modem as the way of
sending VOICE data (not VoIP) to take advantage of the cheap cellular
VOICE plan.
It makes no sense in the end because if we all have unlimited cellular
plans, except for our fax machine, we might as well make all of our
calls using our cell phones. For the few calls we would make using the
asterisk system, it's cheaper to pay by the minute with a retail VoIP
provider.
Their (both Golan and Hot) data plan has no good guarantees once you
pass the 3GB / month. I would not rely on them for anything serious.
It wasn't for data.
The point is that some of the netsticks allow you to make voice calls
with them, though most don't. These asterisk drivers use them as
computer controlled cellphones with USB (or bluetooth) digital audio
input and output.
Even in Israel, all of the modems sold are 2 or 3 generations ahead
of
the software and google has not been helpful with information about
backwards compatibility.
I normally have had good luck with using them with relatively recent
kernels.
Not the point. Beyond the kernel drivers you need asterisk to support
them as Voice devices.
So far I have been able to use Ubuntu 12.04 and throw all sorts of
dongles at it. The kernel drivers support them and network manager
connects with the easily.
From what I can see, the asterisk drivers are much more limited.
Geoff.
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