Noob here, my apologies in advance. Recently my employer decide to stop paying for my home POTS line, so I ordered packet8 for a home line instead of another POTS line, since I really dislike my local phone company, and the POTS line without any long distance would cost more than the $20 to packet8 with unlimited US calling. Anyway, this whole thing got me started thinking about VOIP a lot more, and being a Linux hack, I came across Asterisk pretty fast. Question is this, I know the ATA with packet8 is locked down, but is there any reason I can't use it just like a regular POTS line with Asterisk if I buy a X100P card? That way I could pick up a SIP device to talk to Asterisk, and configure the PBX to use packet8 for all US calling. Being new to this, just want to know if this is a reasonable approach or totally newbian. Also, I saw nufone was very Asterisk friendly, do they support inbound calls, meaning can they assign me a PTSN number, or is their service for outbound calling only? Thanks
Hi Brian, I have been using a X100P to Packet8 ATA connection for about 3 months, it works fine apart from needing the occasional reset. Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weaver Sent: Tuesday, 22 June 2004 6:16 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk<>X100P<>Packet8 Noob here, my apologies in advance. Recently my employer decide to stop paying for my home POTS line, so I ordered packet8 for a home line instead of another POTS line, since I really dislike my local phone company, and the POTS line without any long distance would cost more than the $20 to packet8 with unlimited US calling. Anyway, this whole thing got me started thinking about VOIP a lot more, and being a Linux hack, I came across Asterisk pretty fast. Question is this, I know the ATA with packet8 is locked down, but is there any reason I can't use it just like a regular POTS line with Asterisk if I buy a X100P card? That way I could pick up a SIP device to talk to Asterisk, and configure the PBX to use packet8 for all US calling. Being new to this, just want to know if this is a reasonable approach or totally newbian. Also, I saw nufone was very Asterisk friendly, do they support inbound calls, meaning can they assign me a PTSN number, or is their service for outbound calling only? Thanks _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Jun 21, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Brian Weaver wrote:> Question is this, I know the ATA with packet8 is locked down, but is > there any reason I can't use it just like a regular POTS line with > Asterisk if I buy a X100P card? That way I could pick up a SIP device > to talk to Asterisk, and configure the PBX to use packet8 for all US > calling. Being new to this, just want to know if this is a reasonable > approach or totally newbian.That should work just fine, although you may lose some quality going analog->digital->analog->digital->analog.> Also, I saw nufone was very Asterisk friendly, do they support inbound > calls, meaning can they assign me a PTSN number, or is their service > for outbound calling only?They do inbound 800-numbers only. The number is free, but calls are $0.029/minute. Or, they *were* $0.029 the last time I checked; their outbound rates have fallen recently, so there's a chance the inbound rates have fallen as well. Scott
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Dean Collins wrote:> Hi Brian, I have been using a X100P to Packet8 ATA connection for about > 3 months, it works fine apart from needing the occasional reset.Working well here also, 2 Packet8 ATAs and no reset necessary so far.