Sounds like this is beyond my ability so far. Maybe once I get started I'll have a look for this.
On 10/27/06, Bruce Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can also use a GSM voip gateway to bridge your phone with SIP. There are some products listed on ebay. U need to make sure you get the right freq though. It's diff from Europe. We mostly use 1900MHz. ________________________________ From: "Rob Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: [on-asterisk] Taking the plunge Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:57:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from iran.unitycode.org ([205.207.27.18]) by bay0-mc7-f18.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:58:21 -0700 Received: (qmail 23140 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2006 16:57:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 32472 invoked by uid 0); 27 Oct 2006 16:57:18 -0000 Okay, I've been lurking here for a few months and I think I finally understand what I need to get Asterisk up and running for my home phone setup. This is a sanity check before I commit to any new hardware or services. What I've got so far: Aging AMD Athlon 1200MHz desktop running OpenSuse 10.1 that's always on and runs some other services for me. D-Link DI-524 wireless router and an SMC Barracade router. Reliable DSL service through Teksavvy. Home phone from Bell. Two cordless phones that I paid too much for to replace already. Some cheap X10 lighting control stuff I've been using for years, including an RS232 adapter. I'm in Windsor, Ontario. What I want to do in the short term: Get enhanced phone service & long distance to Michigan, Toronto, Chicago & California for next to nothing. Integrate some simple X10 stuff. Eventually set up call routing from my cel phone to get the same stuff I can get from home. How I think I'm going to do this: As far as I can tell the cheapest way to get started is with an ATA and a DID (adding a second DID for the cel phone to call later). For the ATA I'm looking at ordering the Linksys PAP2-NA or PAP2T-NA online (they're the same price and I can't tell the difference). I see some Grandstream units that are cheaper but I get a better feeling about the Linksys one from bits I've read on this list. Any technical reasons to choose one or the other? Echo? Ease of use? For a DID I want a Windsor phone number, so I've found LES.net that looks okay. Unlimitel gets a lot of praise here but doesn't have Windsor DIDs as far as I see (519 but not Windsor). In order to route calls to and from my cel, I think I'll need a second DID and I'll be paying twice for my minutes (once for each DID while a call is active). I want to order one DID to start with then get another if things work okay. I don't understand exactly how the billing rates work for a DID, I see a price per minute and I see long distance rates. Is the long distance rate just based on where the call terminates without regard to where the DID is assigned? If so what's the price per minute? Is that in addition to the long distance rate? It must be obvious once you've worked in this stuff, but I'm still too new to this stuff. Thanks for taking the time to read all this and thanks to all for supporting this great open source project. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ Experience Live Search from your PC or mobile device today. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
