[asterisk-users] Same number for each caller, but should reach different zap-channels, how?

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Jones
That's a problem that needs to be discussed with the provider of those POTS lines.. With POTS lines, each number has a unique number, but the telco builds a hunt group for you.. For example, maybe you own phone number 555-1000. Your POTS lines may have 555-1000, 555-1001, etc, all the way to

Re: [asterisk-users] call drops after a few seconds

2009-08-12 Thread Steve Jones
I think I'm missing the beginning of this thread, but I had this exact problem with a Call Manager going to two SIP providers, one of which was BW.COM.. I don't know if it will help, since presumably you're using asterisk, but with the call manager, the problem was that there was no

Re: [asterisk-users] duration sec and billing sec in cdr

2007-04-16 Thread Steve Jones
This is interesting to me.. I'm a newbie, so please forgive a dumb question, but what use is it to play a message if you don't pick up the phone first?? Who's hearing it? -Original Message- Adam KOSA wrote: this is what's most likely as i have no experience in asterisk configs.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] cheapest Cisco Smartnet contract?

2006-06-30 Thread Steve Jones
Email me off list with the phone part numbers, and I'll see what I can do.. It probably depends on the level of cisco certification the company has. I dont know if we can do better, but I'll see! Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Louis-David Mitterrand

[Asterisk-Users] IAX FXS.. Any experience with...

2006-06-20 Thread Steve Jones
http://www.x100p.com/products_2.htm Anyone ever use this box? Hows it compare with the Iaxy? Id like to buy one or the other.. The Iaxy is appealing because to me, it seems less no name, but this one says that it supports using hostnames, whereas apparently the iaxy only supports IP

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Which phones are good, or at least acceptable, for home and office

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Jones
I liked the ringer that read the phone number too, but a couple months ago, I did a firmware upgrade, and that ringer option went away Do you have the latest firmware?? I upgraded because of a problem with my phone losing registration, which is now fixed, but I lost that really cool

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Jones
Depends what you want to do! Do you want to do VoIP over that T1 to a provider or IP telephones? Do you want to hook up to the PSTN through that T1 as 24 voice channels, through a T1 card on your asterisk? If you want to use the T1 as 24 voice channels, the Telco is going to have to re-provision

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Jones
. Similarly, I would point my 800 number to a DiD hosted by a VoIP provider that would then route the call back to me. If that is an incorrect assumption, please let me know. Regards, Warren Steve Jones wrote: Depends what you want to do! Do you want to do VoIP over that T1 to a provider or IP

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Which phones are good, or at least acceptable, for home and office

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Jones
ringer.  I guess they decided we didn't need that ringer.    Do you update off of their system, or do you have your own tftp server?   On 6/19/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the ringer that read the phone number too, but a couple months ago, I did a firmware upgrade

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Jones
If youre going to have to open ports on your firewall for SIP anyway, then why not put the server on the inside? That being said, I dont know if youd need to punch holes for the phones being trusted and the server on the outside.. Personally I dont like the ideas of having a server

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

2006-06-19 Thread Steve Jones
I would say its only profitable if youre getting ONE T1 instead of two?? From: Gabriel Afana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 1:34 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to use a data T-1?

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Echo and crackle

2006-06-17 Thread Steve Jones
I went through the same thing on my home system a couple months ago, and asked similar questions.. The conventional wisdom is that it depends... It depends on your local loop length, quality, taps on the line, etc.. It seems that most people who have the sangoma cards with hardware echo

RE: [Asterisk-Users] DTMF in the middle of a call

2006-06-16 Thread Steve Jones
Sounds like something is detecting whatever vocal tone is occurring as a DTMF sound, and conveying it inband.. I'm not an expert, but what DTMF settings do you have? -Original Message- From: Servetas, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:22 PM To:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys SRW224P POE Switch

2006-06-15 Thread Steve Jones
. Guess I should locate my oldest 7960 first, in case there are sparks and a fire :-) No, you want the NEWEST one, because its still under warranty!! ;-) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dial Plan rules

2006-06-09 Thread Steve Jones
I was trying to modify some rules in my [EMAIL PROTECTED] config this morning, and I was having a LOT of trouble, and not understanding why it was ignoring some outbound rules, and it wasn't 'till I made all my NXXNXX type characters all uppercase that it worked properly. I didn't think it

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Vonage and FXO

2006-06-06 Thread Steve Jones
I've got a Motorola vonage box, and I've used it w/ AAH using a digium 4 port card, and with a clone modem FXO, and both have worked well, except for the echo that caused me to upgrade to the real digium card... From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Can Asterisk work in a proxy setting- a challenge

2006-05-23 Thread Steve Jones
First of all, I assume that since you're asking the question, you want to trunk, or send/receive calls that are on the OTHER SIDE of a proxy from you. Certainly asterisk, as a PBX, can service local IP phones, and connect to PSTN lines, without regard to ANY internet connection. Proxy servers

RE: [Asterisk-Users] [EMAIL PROTECTED] default password doesn't match

2006-05-17 Thread Steve Jones
Its possible that for security reasons, it doesnt let you log on remotely with the default passwords.  From the console, change the password to something else unique, and it should work. You should probably do each of these: passwd-maint    set master password for web GUI

RE: [Asterisk-Users] budget tone 100

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Jones
On mine, I had that happen, until I turned off subscribe to MWI or something like that in the config (sorry - I can't remember the exact verbiage.) I also upgraded the firmware around the same time, but I think from advice I got on this list, the MWI setting was the reason... -Steve

RE: [Asterisk-Users] FW: NuFone Update: DIDs

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Jones
I didn't get that message, but I got a we're sorry for sending out the bogus messages message, saying that it was an error.. -Steve -Original Message- From: Steve Prior [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asterisk Users Mailing List -

RE: [Asterisk-Users] why a perfectly fine iax2 host becomes UNREACHABLE?

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Jones
Just as another datapoint, I have a cheap (~$17) walmart cordless phone at home hooked to my digium dual FXS card, and it works great, with the possible exception that there is a buzz (I perceive it as ground hum) for about the first 4 seconds of EVERY call, and slowly it diminishes. I don't know

RE: [Asterisk-Users] About Softphone IAX free for Pocket PC

2006-04-26 Thread Steve Jones
I can't find a pocket pc version of that on the iaxcomm website.. Only linux, Mac, Windows.. Can you send a link? This is exactly what I'm looking for!! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Robert Augustyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:38 PM To: 'Asterisk

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budge Tone 101 keeps deregistering

2006-04-21 Thread Steve Jones
I had a similar problem with a GS101, although with mine, I could make OUTBOUND calls from the phone, but because it wasn't registered, it wouldn't ring if called. I don't know the exact solution, but two things I did was to tell it NOT to subscribe to MWI in the GS config itself, and second, I

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Announcement System for a Charity

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Jones
Why not use [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's got the AMP/FreePBX already installed, so it'd be easy for them to maintain, and should do what you want.. -Original Message- From: Nabeel Jafferali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:40 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Announcement System for a Charity

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Jones
First, I'm surprised it didn't detect your network card.. I'd say it'd be worth putting in another network card. It's autodetected every one I've used Second, I am not sure if it has built in functionality to do what you want, but it certainly will come closer out of the box than a

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk service crashes

2006-04-19 Thread Steve Jones
I had a similar problem, and it was because my hostname had issues... I'm not sure why/how, but if my hostname was valid, and had a valid fwd/reverse dns entry, everything was OK again.. -Steve From: Josué Conti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 4/19/2006

RE: [Asterisk-Users] re: Sixtel Services

2006-04-18 Thread Steve Jones
Im using SixTel as a test (Opened account w/ $10) and am happy with them so far In their basic service package, they dont charge a monthly fee, and its outbound only, and you get charged for every minute. I paid for a DID, which is $1.50 or so per month, and it lets me receive inbound

RE: [Asterisk-Users] voicemail use external smtp server for sendingmail

2006-04-17 Thread Steve Jones
I had the same question, and I want to make sure I'm clear. This implies to me that Asterisk itself doesn't use SMTP, but rather dumps a message into some directory that Sendmail on the same box will see and process? I have no problem getting Sendmail to use a smarthost, but am I

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Frustrated with echo...

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Jones
their board without the echo cancellation. I'm thinking you'd be stuck adjusting the gain though. On 4/5/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me what model Sangoma cards you're talking about?? The ones I saw that had HW echo cancellation were substantially more

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Frustrated with echo...

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Jones
hardware echo cancellation). The digium boards proved almost impossible to completely eliminate echo, and I had random failures over time. On 4/4/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For phones, I've got a GS 101, a Sipura 841, and two analog phones hooked to an GS386 ATA (one phone

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Frustrated with echo...

2006-04-05 Thread Steve Jones
From: Mike Dent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 4/3/2006 3:46 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Frustrated with echo... On 4/3/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using my Asterisk (At my house - 2 modem

[Asterisk-Users] Frustrated with echo...

2006-04-03 Thread Steve Jones
I've been using my Asterisk (At my house - 2 modem-type fxos, and an assortment of SIP endpoints for phones) for about 5 weeks now, and I've been really happy with it, but I'm still having an echo problem that I've exhausted google with, and can't get straight... I think I've determined that

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk with Vonage

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Jones
=5061 dtmfmode=rfc2833 fromuser=phone number fromdomain=sphone.vopr.vonage.net canreinvite=no context=vonage_incoming insecure=very On 3/29/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Vonage doesn't officially have a bring your own device type program, but they do offer a softphone

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk with Vonage

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Jones
I know Vonage doesnt officially have a bring your own device type program, but they do offer a softphone. Has anyone gotten Asterisk to connect directly to Vonage? This would be a great help!! ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by

[Asterisk-Users] Two X100p clones. One not available for outbound?

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Jones
Hi, I have an AsteriskAtHome installation with two X100p clones. Everything has been apparently fine for 5 weeks of use or so, but today, I decided to do some tweaking of my echo cancel parameters, and I realized that all along, one of my cards has been unavailable for outbound calls for

RE: [Asterisk-Users] I'm FED UP with BroadVoice

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Jones
Thanks for the insight.. I have been considering broadvoice because it seems to be a big name, but yours is not the first negative feedback.. Perhaps I'll stay w/ Vonage for the time being - I hate having it go analog and back to digitial in the space of 5 feet of cable, but at least it works

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Jones
a valid email address rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many Thanks, Hugh On 3/17/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a tail -f /var/log/maillog which will give you a real-time view of your mail server activity

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

2006-03-17 Thread Steve Jones
Do a tail -f /var/log/maillog which will give you a real-time view of your mail server activity, then while that's running, leave yourself a voicemail. From: Tony Mountifield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 3/17/2006 10:13 AM To:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

2006-03-17 Thread Steve Jones
email has changed its policy? Anyway, I could use a hand on how to fix this. How do I get Asterisk to use a valid email address rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many Thanks, Hugh On 3/17/06, Steve Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a tail -f /var/log/maillog which will give you a real

RE: [Asterisk-Users] [EMAIL PROTECTED] V's Asterisk

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Jones
Although not the same driver, that's kind of the problem I'm having - It's not that ASTERISK is limited in the AAH release, it's just that they've given you tools to go 80% of the way without learning anything, and now I'm at a place that I want to use some of the cool scripts I've seen on this

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk select outbound trunk based on minutes used per month??

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Jones
I have asterisk at my home, which I have typically been using about 600 minutes outbound per month, over Vonage. I also have an old copper POTS from Verizon, which I only use for 7 digit and 800# dialing, as well as inbound. I am interested in setting up one or more SIP or IAX providers.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] OSHA requirement to reach a live human ??

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Jones
Are you selling it TO osha? If so, maybe they have an internal requirement.. If not, I've never heard of that. Granted, I haven't sold a LOT of phone systems, but I've been involved with a couple into public works departments of local governments as well as private corps, and nobody has ever

RE: [Asterisk-Users] OSHA requirement to reach a live human ??

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Jones
, Steve Jones wrote: Are you selling it TO osha? If so, maybe they have an internal requirement.. If not, I've never heard of that. Granted, I haven't sold a LOT of phone systems, but I've been involved with a couple into public works departments of local governments as well as private corps

RE: [Asterisk-Users] new beta Grandstream firmware HT488_496_386

2006-03-07 Thread Steve Jones
I'm almost afraid to ask, but is the HT 386 known for having a lot of troubles? I just installed one at home about 2 weeks ago, and knock on wood, it's only locked up once, and this was when I was still in the process of tweaking the config to work optimally w/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't say

RE: [Asterisk-Users] new beta Grandstream firmware HT488_496_386

2006-03-07 Thread Steve Jones
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: terça-feira, 7 de Março de 2006 13:40 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] new beta Grandstream firmware HT488_496_386 I'm almost afraid to ask, but is the HT 386 known for having

RE: [Possible SPAM] :[Asterisk-Users] about sip, asterisk and cisco ccme

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Jones
I am starting to work on a similar solution, but with full call manager rather than CME. I am going to use Asterisk to accept POTS calls through PCI FXO ports (winmodems) and then forward the calls through to call manager via SIP. I don't have my FXO cards yet (waiting for UPS man!!) but I have