RE: [Asterisk-Users] Source for Sangoma or Digum 2+ port T1 Card near NH??

2005-07-01 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
http://www.voipsupply.com or call at 1-800-398-VOIP they can rush deliver if you need it. Original Message Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Source for Sangoma or Digum 2+ port T1 Card near NH?? From: Tom Rymes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, July 01, 2005 8:31 am To: Asterisk Users

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk server with remote monitoring capabilities

2005-06-24 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
token authentications for secure management of the remote locations. Cheers, Max W. Blackmer, Jr. Consultant, Knowledge Power IT ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users

RE: [Asterisk-Users] howto write CDRs on two mysql servers

2005-06-11 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
to bring the other servers up to date. You might also consider DNS round robin to distribute initial connections to MySQL. A better solution is to use a load balancer that tracks to see if the servers are alive and balance against the load on each server. Cheers Max W. Blackmer, Jr

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Digium G729 licensing - is it worth the trouble?

2005-06-06 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
If you have licenses or experimenting with g729 you might want to look at http://www.readytechnology.co.uk/open/g729/ it requires Intel C/C++ compiler and IPP libraries. Original Message Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium G729 licensing - is it worth the trouble? From:

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk @ Home 1.1 Released

2005-06-03 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.1 Released and can be downloaded from Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123387package_id=135368 Cheers, Max W. Blackmer ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

RE: [Asterisk-Users] UPS rating for SOHO asterisk box

2005-05-31 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Hello, APC has a nice selector tool on their website. http://www.apc.com/tools/ups_selector/index.cfm It asks several questions to recommend an APC solution. it even gives you a percentage of the capacity of the ups systems capacity. Original Message From: Wilson Pickett

RE: [Asterisk-Users] CRM integration (was RE: CallerID)

2005-05-27 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
into other CRM Applications. What are your thoughts on this? Max W. Blackmer Jr. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http

RE: [Asterisk-Users] G729 codec

2005-05-25 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Original Message Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] G729 codec From: todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:59 am To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Steve Trying to understand the floating point vs fixed,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] POE hub

2005-05-16 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
802.3af 10/100 ports List price is $499.99 USD. I can get them for $420 USD. DES-1526 Web-Smart 24-port PoE 10/100 + 2 Combo Gigabit Copper/SFP ports Switch. List price is $999. I can get them for $850. Cheers, Max W. Blackmer, Jr. ___ Asterisk-Users

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicepulse down?

2005-05-11 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
it works here in Chicago. you might want to check with your provider their dns may be out.. that happened with comcast about 3 weeks ago. Original Message Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voicepulse down? From: Trevor Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, May 11, 2005 8:57 am To:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Satellite Providers

2005-05-11 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Satellite delays are always bad. It is more a delay because of the time it takes a signal to travel to the satellite and back to a receiving station. You might want to check into ground station to station microwave communications stations. The best is to have a tap to a phone company that may

[Asterisk-Users] Echo from a mail loop in list

2005-05-11 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net with SMTP; 11 May 2005 18:40:07 - Received: (qmail 952 invoked by uid 99); 11 May 2005 18:40:07 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:40:07 -0700 From: Max W Blackmer Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Satellite Providers To: Asterisk

RE: [Asterisk-Users] A good SIP receptionist phone

2005-05-02 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Take a look at the Polycom 360 if you only nee 12 lines. otherwise look at the Snom 220 with a sidecar (up to a total of 3 side cars may be added for a total of 65 lines in the extreme need.) Max W . Blackmer, Jr. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Diffrence bewteen FXO and FXS

2005-05-02 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Here is an excellent document explaining the differences between FXO and FXS. http://www.google.com/url?sa=Ustart=5q=http://www.patton.com/technotes/fxs_fxo.pdfe=7385 Also you can look at Digium's site for their description, which describes it from a stand point of Asterisk as the PBX.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] 4 - 8 port w/QOS switch for Asterisk

2005-05-01 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Linksys has a low end router with an 8 port switch that does QoS model BEFSR81. It can be gotten for under $100 USD. For more information http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=604scid=29 Max W. Blackmer, Jr. Original Message Subject: [Asterisk-Users] 4 - 8 port w

RE: [Asterisk-Users] BIND VoIP anyone?

2005-04-28 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Don't forget Dundi is such a system that is already integrated into Asterisk. http://www.dundi.info/ Original Message Subject: [Asterisk-Users] BIND VoIP anyone? From: Andres Paglayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, April 28, 2005 11:39 am To: Asterisk Users Mailing List -

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP4000 Conference Phone

2005-04-26 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
look here http://www.polycom.com/resource_center/1,1454,pw-6812-9192,00.html Original Message Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP4000 Conference Phone From: Wiley Siler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, April 26, 2005 8:39 am To: Asterisk Users Mailing List -

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Slack 10 install - THANK YOU - Cisco Reseller Help

2005-04-15 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Now for my present delima. - Actually this one's been racking my brain since about March. I need to find a Cisco Reseller. very good and will pre configure the Cisco phones for SIP. http://www.voipsupply.com/home.php --Snip-- Last month, I purchased a Cisco-7905G IP Phone from a vendor

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

2005-04-08 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
spending over $A10,000 in the process. The cards are more expensive than the server they're going into (Dell poweredge 750's). When a GPL'd hardware It is obvious that you have never experienced high end servers. We have had a single server cost as much as $20,000 and that is nothing but high

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Polycom sound quality problems

2005-04-04 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
There's no transcoding going on. It's ulaw on IAX with Sixtel and ulaw on SIP to the phone. I considered that as a possibility originally, and even tried using GSM with Sixtel to force it to do transcoding, but had the exact same problem. The Asterisk box is a 2.4ghz P4 with 512MB RAM,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Polycom sound quality problems

2005-04-01 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
I don't see any way to tell the Polycom to ignore QoS. It's mainly routers and switches that pay attention to QoS, the phone would just set QoS on its outgoing packets. Anyway, here's what's in the QoS section- it all seems to be related to sending packets: It is not in the transport if

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Open Source Billing Software

2005-03-31 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
with the capability of emailing or generate on demand for web download for clients. Any other Ideas anyone might need in addition to trabas features? Thanks, Max W. Blackmer, Jr. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http

RE: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Provider problems

2005-03-30 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
We recently configure an asterisk server to use with an VoIP provider to make calls to a PSTN. We use (voipjet, nufone, diamond) We feel that we haven't got the quality that we hope. Sometimes our calls gets mute, or we feel communication cuts on our phone calls. We have got an QOS

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Erratic CPU load

2005-03-30 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Snip During tests with a IAX2/PSTN gateway I've been getting strange results for processor idle time and load. I (re)search(ed) this issue for a while, but I didn't get any good explainations. Can somebody help me? Yes, Speex is pretty cpu intensive compared to other

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Open Source Billing Software

2005-03-30 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
You Might want to look at Trabas ( http://www.trabas.com/opensource/index.html ) it is by far the most complete billing system. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Open Source Billing Software

2005-03-30 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
:) trabas and asterisk have big misunderstanding the don't thing to work like it should be :) Just needs some programming to translate asterisks logs and import them into the database tables. :) that is the good thing about opensource Max ___

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voicepulse connect has doubled their rates

2005-03-30 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
It's going from 7.95 ( 8 bucks ) a month to 11 bucks, an increase of 72%. That's hardly what I'd call doubling ( unless you're using that new math I've heard so much about ). h, actually it is only a 28% increase. you want to see outrageous you should see my gas bill.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] High Availability on Asterisk

2005-03-27 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Hello, Yes, there is high availability, Clustering and Load Balancing. Each one has its own advantage and disadvantages. First option is one that you mention High Availability. This option you have a second machine watching heartbeats from the primary machine. when the heartbeats stop the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Any 24 (or 30) way FXS PCI cards?

2005-03-25 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Just found a 12 port single card with opensource drivers 12 user configurable FX0/FXS analogue ports for $1,680 at asterisk mall ( http://www.asteriskmall.com ). I am not sure how well this card works with asterisk. Has anyone used these cards? Voip supply has a few 24 port gateways that are

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Any 24 (or 30) way FXS PCI cards?

2005-03-22 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Voip supply has a few 24 port gateways that are FXS based. The biggest one for FXO is 10 ports. They are not cheap the both cost about $2000 USD. a Channel bank with a T1 card will cost you about the same at least with a FXS ports. FXO costs more usually because that is typically the Office

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Global Intercom on SIP phones

2005-03-17 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Thank you John, Max Blackmer I would like to create an Intercom extension that will dial a group of extensions which are connected to SIP phones. The SIP phones are setup to auto answer a particular extension assigned to one of the lines in the phone. All phones must answer and broadcast

[Asterisk-Users] Global Intercom on SIP phones

2005-03-16 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
at the same time. Has anyone done this? Or should I install an overhead speaker system using the oss/alsa console as a broadcast. Can the local port be set to auto answer calls? Thank you, Max W. Blackmer, Jr. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Problem Compiling Spandsp

2005-03-14 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
do you have libtiff source files installed? Original Message Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Problem Compiling Spandsp From: Juanjo Portela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, March 14, 2005 6:44 pm To: Lista Asterisk asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sirs, I can't compile the source

RE: [Asterisk-Users] I changed some minor things, but how can I contribute it?

2005-03-14 Thread Max W Blackmer Jr
Ronlald, Did you use any options with the diff command? The usual option for producing patch files is -u the unified format. Example: diff -u originalfile newfile patchfile Hope this helps Max It bothered me, so I changed it to my need, how can I contribute this changes back to the