One other thing that I know is more than they have now. If you go with SIP DIDs with Vitelity, and choose their measured service, they will give you unlimited # of channels. I pay $1.49/month/DID and $0.014/min. So, I could actually have 5 simultaneous calls (10 channels) on a single DID. It seems like a lot of others will cap the channels per pricing tier. I got an 800# for $3.49/month and $0.024/min. I signed up using the Nerd Vittles/PBX In a Flash special offer they have ongoing. I think you can get info on that at www.nerdvittles.com (but I don't have the info right in front of me).
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris McQuistion Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 1:58 PM To: nlug-talk Subject: Re: [nlug] Recommended PBX or hosted voice solution for small office? 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:nlug-talk%[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
