John, thank you very much. Indeed, this is the direction I was thinking of taking. I just needed a "quick & dirty" solution for the short term - I didn't realize that Asterisk is so complex.
In fact, I am not sure I completely understand it: Will using Asterisk force me to use an external VoIP service? Or can I remain completely POTS based? (At the volume of phone calls that I am making, I found out that using an ordinary phone line is way cheaper than any VoIP service available to me right now - definitely cheaper tha Vonage et al.) Thanks, Lynn --- John Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Linux Lover wrote: > > But one thing that I forgot to mention is that my > > business is only in its beginning stage and I need > to > > be as thrifty as possible. While $216 is a > reasonable > > price, I was wondering whether my (currently very > > modest) goal can be achieved by spending much less > > (under $100). For example, what if I buy one of > those > > el-cheapo PBX boxes and connect it to an Asterisk > > server? > > > Buy this, or another proven SOHO solution and > forget, for the moment, > Asterisk > IF you really are starting out fresh, begin the > business and learn > Asterisk in your ( ha! ) spare time, then when you > are ready you will be > able to migrate without having your customers suffer > through your > learning curve. > You DO want your business to succeed, don't you? > You DON'T want your customers to have a bad first > impression of you > because of some small problem with Asterisk. > > Look at other hardware Asterisk solutions as well. > The X100 can be more > trouble than it is worth, the TDM400 CAN have issues > with some > motherboards that you will not discover until the > driver can't find the > board, and the standard support answer is "try > another motherboard" > > Sangoma makes some nice FXO/FXS PCI cards as well > with a 5 year warranty. > > John Novack > > -- > Dog is my co-pilot > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by > http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
