Hi everyone,
I'm going to be helping to set * up for the company I work for, and in doing all my research about it, have found it to be a very viable solution for my SOHO side business at home. I do however have a few questions, forgive me if they're stupid but I'm new to all of this.
1. I want to be able to handle 3 analogue phone lines, with a regular bell telephone line coming into the house. So am I to assume that I want one PCI card for a P300mhz or above with three FXS ports and one FXO port? (the TDM31B). Am I correct in the card that I want?
2. Relating to my first question, say I instead get a card with only one FXS port and one FXO port, can I 'chain' my phones together from the one FXS port and still get the same functionality? (what i mean is one phone line coming out, with a splitter going to my three telephones)?
3. In the future I will be wanting to upgrade to VOIP capabilities for my SOHO Long Distance, is this as simple as getting another card with a T1 interface and an interface port for the phone, then plug it into my existing LAN to get internet connectivity, and still use the TDM31B for regular analogue conversations?
4. Does * support 'ring tone identification' ? Currently I have the outside line coming into the house, then it's split to go off to two phones, then from one of the phones the 'second extension jack' is going to my fax machine, which recognizes the distinctive ring the phone company gave me for the fax #. Will this still work with asterix, or would the fax machine have to be coming directly off the port on the PCI card?
5. Relating back to the splitting of the phone lines, if I have a card with two FXS jacks, and one FXO, and I only wanted two extensions on the line (upstairs, downstairs), could I chain the upstairs lines on one analogue line, and then if i transfer a caller to that extension it will ring on both phones upstairs?
Hopefully I'm clear on my questions, Thanks a lot in advance. Matt Gibson Unix Administrator Experthost / NJ Tech Solutions _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
