Hi, I noticed Linksys seems to have purchased Sipura? Anyone use the Linksys products that resulted? The grandstream seems to be the cheapest. What do you give up? Sound quality I don't want to sacrifice, but abundant features I might...
Thanks, j On Thu, 31 May 2007, Nate Kettlewell wrote: > Jeff, > > The iaxy sucks.. however it works well behind NAT, and that's about > all it has going for it IMHO. I personally prefer the sipura SPA's or > if I am cheap, the grandstream handytones will get you done. > > Ditch the Iaxys, keep some sanity, > > Nate > > On 5/31/07, Jeff LaCoursiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Frequent lurker comes up for air. TIA for any advice. > > > > I am running Internet Cafes in the islands and am adding calling stations > > for the cruise ship crew and passengers to use while visiting. I already > > have an asterisk server running a custom prepaid access card system we > > wrote, and I have been using the Digium Iaxy to get customers to the AGI > > program (whatever they press at dialtone jumps them to "enter your PIN > > number"). This is working fine, but for a few issues with the sixteen of > > them I currently have in service: > > > > 1) The Iaxy is prohibitively expensive per port > > 2) The Iaxy is difficult to provision in the field > > 3) It seems to overheat and lose its mind once in a while > > 4) poor network connectivity causes it to disconnect and STAY > > disconnected, requiring a reboot > > > > Its starting to drive me nuts, actually. I went with the Iaxy in the > > first place thinking it would be the best marriage to asterisk. Then > > someone handed me a Sipura SPA-2000 a few days ago. It actually has a > > built in IVR that you can use from either of the two FXS ports and an > > analog telephone to read or SET network parameters. The web interface is > > excellent and has a wealth of options. The Iaxy, by comparison, has a few > > commands in a text file for options. I had it connected to a local > > asterisk in about thirty seconds, then in about an hour (much tweaking of > > SIP NAT parameters on both ends) I got it working with our public asterisk > > server and the prepaid phone card interface. > > > > So now to the advice. My eyes have been opened to the fact that the large > > number of ATAs available are far from close in terms of quality, with the > > Iaxy somewhere near the bottom. What ATAs are people happy with connected > > to asterisk? Especially service providers that are provisioning them > > remotely? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jeff LaCoursiere > > JB Telenet, LLC > > St Thomas, VI 00802 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-BSD mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-BSD mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd > *** Handled by Will's new toy *** > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
