Mark, I talked to them this morning and found out that they do have Comcast for their broadband and Comcast is delivering their current phone service. I ~think~ it is being delivered via two RJ11's on the back of the Comcast modem/router/VoIP gateway and it is feeding a VERY old and rudimentary phone system. There are only 3 handsets in the office with basic voicemail and no ability to check their voicemail from off-site or forward calls or anything.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Mark J. Bailey <m...@jobsoft.com> wrote: > Chris, > > > > Do they have broadband? You being an asterisk guy as well, I must say that > I have had (so far) great results from the FreePBX Distro and the polycom > phones (bought of eBay - never at retail $). I have used Vitelity for VOIP > and they have been great (they are a Nerd Vittles favorite). > > > > Save for the occasional bandwidth/uptime issue, it has served me well. Not > sure how it would do over DSL or slower, but as far as maintenance, the new > FreePBX GUI is quite intuitive, and, once setup, I haven't had to do hardly > squat for maintenance. I am using the Open Source Endpoint Manager, but > Shmooze's $49 commercial Endpoint Manager module is very well done. You > create the extension, choose the model, and the plug in the MacAddr. If you > setup DHCP to use Opt 66 (assuming that's possible), it will even tell the > phones where to provision from. > > > > Vitelity's rates are pretty decent too. I have looked at the other > Asterisk packagings, and FreePBX Distro seems to have everything well > covered. Elastix is changing to a new web GUI (of their own making) with > the next major release, so I am very leery of them until I see where it > goes. > > > > Anyways, my $0.02. > > > > *From:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Chris McQuistion > *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:27 PM > *To:* nlug-talk > *Subject:* [nlug] Recommended PBX or hosted voice solution for small > office? > > > > I've been asked to help someone out who runs a very small office (I think > they only have 3 phones) with getting a new phone system. > > > > Ideally, I want to get them something that has fairly low cost and very > low maintenance requirements, since there won't be anyone on staff to > actually babysit this thing. > > > > I know there are some cloud-hosted PBX systems out there, these days, and > also some very small appliance PBX's. I wondered if anyone on this list > has any experience with either or both and can comment on what might be a > good fit for a small office with no IT staff. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
