Hi,
I think it is the first time I post on this list, I went through
the few couple of hundred last messages on the list and couldn't find an
answer. I also read the FAQ.
I'd need some advice... here is what I plan to do. I've never
installed asterisk so I know I need to do some testing. I don't mind
buying equipment, but I don't want to overspend, especially in the test
phase. I planned on using asterisk@home on old boxes that I can get for
less than 100$ (P3 500/128 MB) or astlinux on pcengines WRAP machines
(or even astlinux on the P3). I just bought a WRAP that is going to
eventually replace my netgear home router, but I could use the WRAP for
testing. There is no hurry to replace the netgear.
What I want to do is have one asterisk PBX here and one at my
friend's house. We are both with the same ISP, cable modem, with good
bandwidth. My friend lives ~ 25 Km from me. - The incoming phone line
would be at my house, but I'd like to have an extension going to my
friend's. I am testing traffic shaping rules with my firewall right
now, so this is likely to be in the plan as well.
At home I have 2 lines: one regular telco line and one VoIP line
from Vonage (with a motorola phone adapter). The vonage has unlimited
long distance USA/Canada (I'm in canada btw). Here are my questions:
- Is that possible? Any links to howtos?
- Could I connect both of my lines on the pbx?
- Can my friend dial through my vonage line to make long-distance calls?
Can he actually choose?
- I'd like to avoid buying digium cards at least for the testing
phase... I know I'll probably need one to use my telco line or the IP
line behind the phone adapter, but if I can avoid buying one for my
friend's PBX, it would be great. Can I use (free or inexpensive)
softphones with asterisk?
Thanks in advance,
--
Ugo
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www.voip-info.org is one stop ref. for asterisk help. yes its more then possible. You can put asterisk server at your place and make your friend login to your ast box. you can make your friend a sip account use xlite ( windows based softphone ) at your friends place. IMHO you need to buy fxo card to plug your telco or vonage line into ast box. yes then your friend can use your vonage or telco line to dialout, and you can make dialplan which actually let your friend chose how to dial and from which line. regards, Umair bari On 12/15/05, Ugo Bellavance <ugob@camo-route.com> wrote:> > Hi, > > I think it is the first time I post on this list, I went through > the few couple of hundred last messages on the list and couldn't find an > answer. I also read the FAQ. > > I'd need some advice... here is what I plan to do. I've never > installed asterisk so I know I need to do some testing. I don't mind > buying equipment, but I don't want to overspend, especially in the test > phase. I planned on using asterisk@home on old boxes that I can get for > less than 100$ (P3 500/128 MB) or astlinux on pcengines WRAP machines > (or even astlinux on the P3). I just bought a WRAP that is going to > eventually replace my netgear home router, but I could use the WRAP for > testing. There is no hurry to replace the netgear. > > What I want to do is have one asterisk PBX here and one at my > friend's house. We are both with the same ISP, cable modem, with good > bandwidth. My friend lives ~ 25 Km from me. - The incoming phone line > would be at my house, but I'd like to have an extension going to my > friend's. I am testing traffic shaping rules with my firewall right > now, so this is likely to be in the plan as well. > > At home I have 2 lines: one regular telco line and one VoIP line > from Vonage (with a motorola phone adapter). The vonage has unlimited > long distance USA/Canada (I'm in canada btw). Here are my questions: > > > - Is that possible? Any links to howtos? > - Could I connect both of my lines on the pbx? > - Can my friend dial through my vonage line to make long-distance calls? > Can he actually choose? > - I'd like to avoid buying digium cards at least for the testing > phase... I know I'll probably need one to use my telco line or the IP > line behind the phone adapter, but if I can avoid buying one for my > friend's PBX, it would be great. Can I use (free or inexpensive) > softphones with asterisk? > > Thanks in advance, > -- > Ugo > > -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. > -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the > irrelevant parts in your replies. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051215/5eb9dc1d/attachment.htm
Dovid Bender <mailto:asteriskdigium@yahoo.com> wrote: > Yes you can do it without a problem. You can set up > one at your house and one in his house. The server in > your house will require a card. Unless you want to use > a VOIP line. You can get an unlimited VOIP line from > Broadvoice.com. This will eliminate the need for any > ATA's (simmular to your vonage box) and a voice card. > I believe they charge $25.00 or $30.00 er month. Ok, but they don't seem very canada-friendly, although canada is covered by their plans... But I know there are companies like that in canada as well. > If > all you want is for your friend to call out over your > lines you do not need to have a PBX on his side. You > can have a phone by him (be it a soft phone or hard > phone) and have it connect over the internet to your > PBX. A hard phone would need to be an IP phone, though, right? > There are several software phones out there that > are free. You can try xlite. I believe the URL is > www.xten.net. Cool! Thanks! > Good luck with your project. If you have > any questions feel free to ask. Thanks! > > Regards, > Dovid > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com