Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no driver for PCI voice modems?

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On April 1, 2009 01:32:18 pm Jason Aarons (US) wrote: I don't think a off the shelf modem has the necessary DSPs to convert voice to codecthat is why a Voice Gateway/Analog Telephony Adapter or FXO/FXS cards exist instead of modem having a second life. There are no DSPs in any of the

Re: [asterisk-users] iphone, skype and asterisk ...

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 30, 2009 12:48:59 pm randulo wrote: Except for roaming and in particular international roaming, isn't the best plan to forward calls the iPhone. It is a phone, too isn't it? Or just a game platform, browser and GPS? That's pretty much what I do; I use siax (I have a jailbroken iPhone)

Re: [asterisk-users] 2008 Post Count

2009-01-08 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On January 2, 2009 01:44:14 pm David wrote: 2007 2006 Andrew Kohlsmith 290 2005 Andrew Kohlsmith 731 Damn... I'm slipping! 2nd place in 2005. -A. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] top posting again [was: Re: CDR Design]

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On December 17, 2008 05:03:00 pm Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: To me top posting is like people talking about SIP Trunks. There is no such thing as a SIP Trunk. There are SIP connections, peers, friends, etc. The term is simply a marketing buzzword to make people that don't know much about

Re: [asterisk-users] top posting again [was: Re: CDR Design]

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On December 17, 2008 06:59:19 pm David fire wrote: you are soamming my mail box whit this useless discution the solution is doble posting (top and bottom) It's a public mailing list. If you're having trouble managing it, you may want to try a digest version, or perhaps a moderated list. -A.

Re: [asterisk-users] Rate My Dialplan Contest Announced - Win a Phone or Copies of APSTel Visual Dialplan Std or Pro!

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On December 4, 2008 08:31:40 pm Matt Gibson wrote: 1st place: An APSTel dial plan (professional license) donated by -- you guessed it - APSTel! 2nd place: An Aastra 57I IP telephone donated by Ottawa Phone Systems and Flewid Inc! 3rd place: An APSTel dial plan (standard license) donated by

Re: [asterisk-users] cepstral vs festival

2008-12-04 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On December 2, 2008 07:55:00 pm Erik (Caneris) wrote: Nuance would say no :) I'd say maybe. Call up +14164854854, it's a recent project we did for a That's pretty cool! Is there any SIP or IAX access to this (aside from dialing a POTS number) ? -A.

Re: [asterisk-users] cepstral vs festival

2008-12-04 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On December 4, 2008 02:14:52 pm Erik (Caneris) wrote: Thanks. Unfortunately no SIP/IAX access at this time, only by dialing one of the TNs. However, I'll bring it up with the client and see if they'd want us to configure that. Definitely would be cool, you don't lose any ad revenue and I don't

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: What do you guys think of this?

2008-12-02 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On December 1, 2008 07:21:33 pm Doug wrote: Hmmm. When our users are pounding the network with BitTorrent traffic, we just shut them down and wait for them to complain. It's against our Acceptable Use Policy, and causes all sorts of VOIP headaches. As someone who is the technical lead for

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 29, 2008 10:19:36 am Bill Michaelson wrote: I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating voice and data networks is in the Real World. What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me.

Re: [asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 28, 2008 12:58:25 pm JD wrote: The folks that devloped the fax V.protocols took into acount typical copper problems like noise or echo. But what they never conceived of as even being possible is that a call might shift around in the time domain. Thanks to jitter/latency, the delay

Re: [asterisk-users] Fring: Open VPN client to be installed on the mobile, which mobile?

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 27, 2008 02:01:43 pm Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Speaking of fring, I just got my brand new iphone 3G. Anyone have any comments on how well fring or any other sip client (siphon?) works on iphone? I do not like fring. It's buggy, it's unstable, it looks goofy -- but I have to say that

Re: [asterisk-users] sip clients for smart phones?

2008-10-05 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 3, 2008 04:15:26 pm Tariq .. wrote: it is FRING i'm sorry for the mistype... www.fring.com I just downloaded it for the iphone... it's pretty cheap looking, crashes occasionally and appears to force all audio through their server, but I have to say that yes, it does have potential.

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Re: sip clients for smart phones?

2008-10-05 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 3, 2008 08:56:34 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote: I could live with 1 or maybe 2 of these issues but 5 is a bit much. You didn't even notice these problems, so, ok, sorry for being rude. But for people who are used to email in ages it feels like a punch in the face. It's a real culture

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: text/plain (was: Re: Re: sip clients for smart phones?)

2008-10-05 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 5, 2008 12:22:37 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote: Thunderbird could probably render his text/html part just fine but I don't want it to. (Nothing is wrong with preferring text/plain in the MUA.) Thus it renders his text/plain part which lacks line breaks. I posted some links to the list

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Do You Know What the Problem With CDMA is?

2008-09-25 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On September 25, 2008 09:01:52 am Dean Collins wrote: Yep you got it world coverage includes all the countries of the world like USA, Canada and Mexico, and not something like USA and 212 other countries globally. BTW I hear that Iraq also now uses CDMA (some senator shoe-horned it into

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Do You Know What the Problem With CDMA is?

2008-09-25 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On September 25, 2008 10:41:45 am Drew Gibson wrote: Once CDMA has gone the way of the dodo in North America, I really will miss one of my favourite scenes:- Visiting Brit steps off plane and checks phone for messages... Puzzled look appears as they ask Why doesn't my phone work? It worked

[asterisk-users] PRI incoming call forward / call redirect

2008-09-23 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
Good morning, I have a Bell Canada PRI here (switchtype=national) and I am trying to perform a call-forward-unconditional on one of the DIDs. The idea is that when DID 5551234 receives a call, Asterisk redirects it back out the same PRI to some external number. This is simple enough to do

Re: [asterisk-users] Semi-OT Satellite?

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On August 23, 2008 07:57:33 pm Alex Balashov wrote: Yes, indeed. Encapsulation protocols such as IPSec/GRE won't work at all over high RTT latency (= 400 ms). Why not? Is there some kind of timing involved in encapsulating data that I'm not aware of? -A.

Re: [asterisk-users] Intermittent T.38 pass through

2008-08-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On August 11, 2008 06:59:23 pm JR Richardson wrote: So my question is this: Can I setup Asterisk to only allow t.38 pass through from these ATA's, without the need to use the #99 in every dial string from the fax machine? Can you use disallow/allow with UDPTL? I'm not sure, I've never played

Re: [asterisk-users] Implementing an Asterisk Server behi nda MeridianNorstar

2008-07-24 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On July 24, 2008 04:42:42 pm David Cook wrote: Have the Norstar programmer send all 3 digit, unused extensions to the PRI. Then Asterisk will see 221, etc. and can handle at your dialplan sees fit. Yes, this works, but you won't be able to treat those as regular extensions; the Nortel will

Re: [asterisk-users] MagicJack quality

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On July 17, 2008 11:44:07 am Dean Collins wrote: 1/ RD costs v's number of units manafactured per annum. That's bullshit; There are many more office phones than office desktops out there, and the research has been paid for many times over. Think of how long the Meridian 1 has been around.

Re: [asterisk-users] Controlling cell phone VM / Fax waiting notification icon for asterisk VM

2008-06-23 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On June 23, 2008 08:08:53 am OCG Technical Support wrote: I little more digging and I confirmed that cell phone VM and FAX waiting icons are in fact controlled by a proprietary SMS message format. Here's what I found: Yes; this is the same sticking point I hit; you can't use an SMS email

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Re: OT How Digium Saved My Bacon!

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On June 17, 2008 01:45:43 am randulo wrote: The screwdriver is reversible, it swings both ways, pull out the shank and stick it in the other way, it becomes a Phillips. I'm tellin ya, there Digium engineers are good! Most every pocket screwdriver that is sold as a promotional item is like

Re: [asterisk-users] OT How Digium Saved My Bacon!

2008-06-16 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On June 15, 2008 12:04:01 pm randulo wrote: Moving day, everything packed. Including tools! But wait, there in the jar with pens and pencils... it looks like. Yes, it's the Digium Asterisk tweaker! THANKS Digium! Before you ask, it's 1.0 I think. ? -A.

Re: [asterisk-users] OT How Digium Saved My Bacon!

2008-06-16 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On June 16, 2008 07:22:18 pm Mark Hamilton wrote: How come he has it, and he's in Paris! I'm in Toronto, and I don't have it? Yeah, me too. I even got a mention in the book, but no screwdriver? :-( -A. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] 911 via MAX TNT ??

2008-06-04 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On June 4, 2008 06:20:57 pm Joe Carroll wrote: Interestingly enough, on the syslog messages from the TNT we are seeing Called = 911, Q850 Cause = 28, SIP Response = 484 That really looks like the switch that the TNT is talking to is rejecting the number, not the TNT... -A.

Re: [asterisk-users] Help Please - Asterisk MYSQL interface seems to be eating data

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On May 5, 2008 01:58:42 pm Tilghman Lesher wrote: Hmm. Haven't found any Digium Stockholm office to discuss with ;-) That hasn't stopped any of the Canadian employees. :-) That's because nothing stops Canadians, short of Hockey Night in Canada :-) -A.

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

2008-05-04 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On May 4, 2008 07:24:45 pm Rob Hillis wrote: Customer's insistence. We didn't have a choice, really. Nothing wrong with that, it just adds more billable hours. :-) -A. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

2008-05-04 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On May 4, 2008 08:40:10 pm Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Customer's insistence. We didn't have a choice, really. Nothing wrong with that, it just adds more billable hours. :-) As long as it does. I don't know about you, but whenever a customer wants me to do work and does not want to follow my

Re: [asterisk-users] New generic sounds

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On May 2, 2008 03:13:40 pm Norman Franke wrote: enter the four-digit extension of the person you are trying to reach I would suggest breaking that up Please enter the digit extension of the person you are trying to reach then you can use the individual numbers and fill in 2 digit, 3 digit,

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium PRI card hi-Z for sniffing?

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On May 1, 2008 11:39:52 am Tony Mountifield wrote: Does anyone know if the Digium PRI cards can be configured or modified to have a high-impedance input on the RX pair? I would be interested in this in order to build a bi-directional PRI audio sniffer using two E1/T1 ports per trunk to be

Re: [asterisk-users] cdr_custom outout to serial port

2008-04-12 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On April 12, 2008 03:12:31 am Col Ferguson wrote: Hello, I have a system in a motel that needs call billing data output through its serial port so the existing motel management software can collect the call billing info. Is there any easy way to redirect the data that goes into the

Re: [asterisk-users] Where is the Digium DS3 card?

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On April 7, 2008 02:01:08 am Alex Balashov wrote: A Lucent TNT Max outfitted with _plethoric_ VFCs might work okay. Apex too, perhaps. Haven't tried to see how much it can handle when TDM-RTP translation is required. I'm curious; are the cpu/tdm/dsp requirements for 672 g729 rtp streams that

Re: [asterisk-users] Where is the Digium DS3 card?

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On April 6, 2008 11:12:33 am Steve Totaro wrote: I cannot recommend the Adtran MX2800 M13, it has redundant everything and is very easy to setup and not very expensive either. Agreed; I've set these up and they are rock effing solid. We did have a shelf controller die and without the backup

Re: [asterisk-users] Slightly OT: Getting VOIP number into phone book

2008-03-25 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 25, 2008 02:15:42 pm Lacy Moore wrote: I think that is one of the biggest things that businesses overlook when switching to Voip. It's hard to get in the directories. I have to say that it's been many years (well before voip) that I've gone to the directories. Google and yellow

Re: [asterisk-users] Unable to obtain dialed number through ZAP

2008-03-24 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 24, 2008 02:38:03 am mark morreny wrote: What I need to do is to try to route called based on the dialed number as I have multiple DIDs on my line. Is this something that can be done? Is this something to do with the hardware that I am using? If so, what kind of hardware do I need

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 20, 2008 02:33:52 pm Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 20.03.2008, 16:59 +0200 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen: And what happens if at the time of the shutdown there was a ROTFL Trafrir, you made my day. Oh god, I didn't realize that wasn't a typo until you wrote that...

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 19, 2008 12:43:21 pm Bill Andersen wrote: I'm a USER of Asterisk. We purchased 3 commercially available Asterisk Based PBXs a little over a year ago. (I won't mention which one at this point - I don't want to bad mouth them - yet!) Two of the systems are very small (5 SIP lines/6

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 19, 2008 07:00:20 pm Steve Totaro wrote: I would not consider a Dell SC440 w/RAID 1 Server Grade you can pick them up for $250 on sale. Why not? Is the price not high enough, or is there some technical reason? I ask because your only explanation as to why it's not server grade

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On March 19, 2008 05:05:05 pm Bill Andersen wrote: CentOS release 4.4 (Final) Kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp (SMP) Asterisk 1.4.16.2 Dell SC440 w/RAID 1 Digium TE120P The GUI is a commercially available product, to remain un-named at this point. Ok, and what specifically are the types of