Quoting "Richard (Rogers @ work)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I only have the incoming > line > connect to asterisk and all of my analogue phones in paralle. > For not, I would like my old phones to continue to ring and if no one > answers, then forward to my cell where I have VM feature.>
I fully understand and respect the parallel "play with it until I'm happy" concept but once you have reached the level you are at I think you have to take the plunge and change your phone paradigm. With a PBX, all calls should go to the PBX where the program code determines who/what gets rung/processed (Even if this is simply an asterisk aswering machine - 1 inbound line + 1 fxs tied to all phones and it simply rings through then VM if you don't answer). Or you do something fancier like an IVR menu that says "Hi, you have called us, for Richard, press 1 ....." etc. then it rings you specifically. Once you know it is ringing you specifically rather than your wife or your dog, have it ring your desk & cellular at the same time. (Yes this assumes you have at least 1 phone (or line on a phone) per person/pet in the house. I just picked up some 2-line Panasonic cordless real cheap and you can do different rings per line. Once the PBX and PBX alone answers the phone, you never have to jump over furniture to get the ringing phone before Asterisk picks up. Plus down the road, you get to implement all kind of call control features to help you manage your life/time better like limiting the CLID of people who can call you between 12:00AM & 6:00AM and sending the straight to voicemail but letting your family and other important people call you without impediment. Just my 2c. Down the road, did you know that Bell Canada will do Busy Call Fwd? It's not something they advertise and it is cheaper than their regular services. I think it is costing me under $2/mth. My Bell line then B/CFWD's to my Unlimitel number and I can have multiple people call me simultaneously. This eliminates the only advantage of Bell Call Answer (taking a message while you are on the phone) and it costs less/mth for me to support B/CWD with Bell and my Unlimitel line than it would for Bell Call Answer plus I can now support multiple in/out phone conversations at the same time. OK, now we're up to about a nickel. dbc.
