asterisk users - Jun 2005 - Welcome

Hi everyone,

 

I just installed Asterisk to my thinkpad last night to test it out a
bit. Great software. I can't wait to expand my system. I am also hoping
this group will give me lots of great information on using Asterisk.
Just to let you know this is for a home and maybe a small home business
installation. Looking forward to expanding my system. It looks like the
most expensive item to this will the phones. Anyone know of any good
VoIP phones for about $50. Lastly how do you fell about the 1 FXO port
cards that sell on ebay for about $10. I have tired Vonage and Packet8
VoIP services and I guess I just don't have enough bandwidth here in the
country to use them, lots of bad calls. Thanks for all your help.

 

Jason

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> Anyone know of any good VoIP phones for about $50.
>
You should probably try to shell out a little more and get quality 
phones, it really makes a difference. Alternatively, I've found that 
SIPURA ATAs sound great (they have really good echo cancel too).

> Lastly how do you fell about the 1 FXO port cards that sell on ebay 
> for about $10.
>
Cheap clone cards work OK in my experience. In fact I've got better 
experience with a Digitnetworks crappy clone card than with Digium's 
genuine TDM400... YMMV greatly.

Or another approach would be to get a SPA-3k which will bridge PSTN with 
Asterisk and give you an FXS port too.

> I have tired Vonage and Packet8 VoIP services and I guess I just don?t 
> have enough bandwidth here in the country to use them, lots of bad 
> calls. Thanks for all your help.
>
If bandwith is an issue, then you should prolly try to find a provider 
which supports iLBC, GSM or g.729 codec.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel.