[Cialug] Asterisk

[Tom Pohl]

I purchased a "never used" sipura 2000 from ebay and it's turned out to 
be a flaming pile of crap.  Over time it has stopped responding and now 
boots about every 10th power cycle.

Digium's iaxy has been very reliable but I haven't found any security 
features to keep anyone on the network from reprogramming it.

I also have several grandstream phones.  When they work, they work well 
(if you like to hear yourself talk with the volume up).  Over all, 
these phones have the most features (1 button voicemail, etc) and the 
price is decent.

My Wisip is my favorite voip phone (I'd be even happier if it would 
support the GSM codec).  I wish I had a cisco to play with, but I 
haven't looked very hard for any deals.

-Tom

On Nov 3, 2004, at 4:48 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> It was Nufone that really sold me on Asterisk with their super cheap 
> LD and
> IAX support.  It was a 'leet PBX to me until you add the VOIP long 
> distance
> factor.
>
> I'm hoping to make it virtually invisible to the family except that the
> answering machine will go away and we will be able to do a  lot more 
> "cool
> things"  After 9 PM the phones will only ring where adults are and not 
> where
> kids are sleeping etc, cell phone rings simultaneously and voicemail
> messages get sent to work.
>
> I hope Dave will agree to continue to let me help him get it rolling in
> phases at work.
>
> What voip devices are you using?  I think I will probably go with a 
> mix of
> Grandstreams and Sipura.
>
> -Nate
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Pohl [mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:16 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Asterisk
>
>
>
> What's the difference between home and work? ;)
>
> It's taken a bit of adjustment on my wife's part, but it's running all
> the phones in the house.  I also have extensions that go to an asterisk
> server running at another location where other partner's phones tie in
> to the network.
>
> I even have a wisip (wifi voip phone) that attaches to a particular pbx
> depending if I'm on my home network or randomly on the internet (to
> conserve bandwidth on my home dsl connection).  The only step I haven't
> taken is to buy phone service from someone like a voicepulse
> (http://connect.voicepulse.com/) for long distance calling.
>
> I've been working on a web application that will allow multiple people
> to join a conference and record a session (with other audio clips, etc)
> for uses such as podcasting or live streaming.
>
> -Tom
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
>> I agree.
>>
>> So you are using it at home/at work?  Both?
>>
>> I'm a couple tweaks and a few $$$ away from using it at home and
>> giving Vonage the boot.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Pohl [mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:47 PM
>> To: cialug@cialug.org
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Asterisk
>>
>>
>>
>> Asterisk rocks!
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> How many people on the list are using/experimenting with Asterisk
>>> (http://www.asterisk.org)?  I know Dave W. is familiar with it,
>>> anybody else?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to get a system going at home and I wonder if anyone else
>>> "around here" has already done it.
>>>
>>> -Nate
>>>
>>> Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667
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