Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-17 Thread Per Jessen
Alex Balashov wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stephen Bosch said something to this effect: The fax-to-e-mail services charge as much as the telco does for a business line, sometimes more (at least, the ones I can deal with in this area). Better to set-up hylafax, IMHO. Not necessarily,

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Bosch
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote: The only thing I'd probably lose is the ability to do faxes! So I am going to investigate that further first! Havn't doen that in years - an online fax service sends me my faxes by email and I sent out faxes through them, not that I ever do that. The

RE: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Cotton
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 22:29 +0200, Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) wrote: In NL you actually can ditch the telephony and keep the ADSL... My ISP even gives emergency access if you transfer your main number to their SIP service. Here in France you can also move to ADSL only, what I found really

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stephen Bosch wrote: Chris Mason (Lists) wrote: The only thing I'd probably lose is the ability to do faxes! So I am going to investigate that further first! Havn't doen that in years - an online fax service sends me my faxes by email and I sent out faxes through them,

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Alex Balashov
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stephen Bosch said something to this effect: The fax-to-e-mail services charge as much as the telco does for a business line, sometimes more (at least, the ones I can deal with in this area). Better to set-up hylafax, IMHO. Not necessarily, except perhaps in cases of

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Mason (Lists)
Stephen Bosch wrote: The fax-to-e-mail services charge as much as the telco does for a business line, sometimes more (at least, the ones I can deal with in this area). Better to set-up hylafax, IMHO. http://www.maxemail.com/fax/fax-lite.html $24/annum. -- Chris Mason (264) 497-5670 Fax:

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Bosch
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote: Stephen Bosch wrote: The fax-to-e-mail services charge as much as the telco does for a business line, sometimes more (at least, the ones I can deal with in this area). Better to set-up hylafax, IMHO. http://www.maxemail.com/fax/fax-lite.html $24/annum. I

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Alex Balashov
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stephen Bosch said something to this effect: Would this still be possible? (All these services have numbers in remote area codes or have 800 numbers). Can anybody suggest one that will take a ported number (in Canada)? That's just something you have to contact the

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Bosch
Alex Balashov wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Stephen Bosch said something to this effect: Would this still be possible? (All these services have numbers in remote area codes or have 800 numbers). Can anybody suggest one that will take a ported number (in Canada)? That's just something you

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-15 Thread Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
On Fri, May 11, 2007 08:21, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007, Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) wrote: If you think your ISP is reliable enough then go for it! I've had less ADSL issues last year than ISDN issues! ;-) (And that while ADSL is running over that very ISDN line!)

RE: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-15 Thread Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
On Fri, May 11, 2007 10:31, Chris Bagnall wrote: There is a small (and growing!) number of small businesses (and not so small ones either!) who are moving towards using their broadband (typically ADSL in the UK) connection for Telephony - and even installing a 2nd ADSL line just for VoIP.

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Mason (Lists)
The only thing I'd probably lose is the ability to do faxes! So I am going to investigate that further first! Havn't doen that in years - an online fax service sends me my faxes by email and I sent out faxes through them, not that I ever do that. -- Chris Mason (264) 497-5670 Fax: (264)

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-11 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 23:44, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007, Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) wrote: It gives me pause though... Maybe it's time to get rid of my fixed line... ;-) No ;-) needed - I have friends on cable

RE: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-11 Thread Chris Bagnall
There is a small (and growing!) number of small businesses (and not so small ones either!) who are moving towards using their broadband (typically ADSL in the UK) connection for Telephony - and even installing a 2nd ADSL line just for VoIP. Indeed, many of our clients are doing just that. I

[asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-10 Thread Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
I forgot to pay this month's phone bill, and never noticed until family (the in-laws, who are too cheap to try the cell phone if landline fails, because it is 'more expensive') told me they were unable to reach us... As it turns out, the phone company disconnected us, but because Asterisk routes

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-10 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) wrote: It gives me pause though... Maybe it's time to get rid of my fixed line... ;-) No ;-) needed - I have friends on cable internet with no separate copper phone line now. I'd consider it myself if I weren't tied to having ADSL over my

Re: [asterisk-users] The downside of Asterisk and least cost routing...

2007-05-10 Thread Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
On Thu, May 10, 2007 23:44, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007, Francesco Peeters (Asterisk) wrote: It gives me pause though... Maybe it's time to get rid of my fixed line... ;-) No ;-) needed - I have friends on cable internet with no separate copper phone line now. I'd