Yes, the wife acceptance factor cannot be over emphasized - I had a bumpy couple of months. Instead of going whole hog asterisk with no looking back (which, of course, is what I wanted to do), I installed trixbox in parallel with all the house phones first. So the phones behaved as 'normal.'. Then I started the configuration, testing, breaking things, more testing, and the only extension interrupted was the one old handset physically next to the trixbox. But once I showed my wife that we could cancel our bundled long distance plan and pay a la carte 0.01 per minute with a voip Tue, Aug 28, 2007 provider (and actually at the time there was a provider offering free US calling). So I then rewired all the handsets to hang off the asterisk server. There was a couple times when I would screw something up and incoming or outgoing calls wouldn't work but she was patient and I resolved them as quick as I could. My wife still isn't doing cartwheels about the advanced stuff that we can do with the system, but she is as excited as I am with two things: 1) how much money we saved in the first year on long distance even after I bought some asterisk gear and 2) the fact that two (or more) handsets can be in use at the same time - we don't talk on the phone that much but it is surprising how often we are both on the phone.
I realize that was more of a testimonial than you were soliciting but imany on the list feel your pain. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: "Michael Bryenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:47:44 To:<[email protected]> Subject: [on-asterisk] Back to Bell for me ... I have a D-Link DI-102 and a Linksys SPA3102 to part with. My experimentation with Trixbox was not Wife-Friendly(c). Bought about 2 months ago - like new. Let me know if you are interested. Mike
