We also signed up with the Broadvoice 'BYOD' $19.95 service just in the past week
and found the service to work extremely well with Asterisk. I also updated the * server to 1.0-RC2
before testing it.
Doug
Deon Rodden wrote:
No. Just one regular $19.95 residential plan. I've had 6 cell phones call my DID and my IVR picked up all 6 times. I never got a 7th cell, so I never tested the limit. But I don't want to abuse my BroadVoice account so I haven't tried it again. I mainly stick to 1 line, an occassional 2nd line/channel may be used, but I know it can do more.
The way I interact with BroadVoice though isn't officially sanctioned, I didn't prefer to use their "Asterisk Only" SIP gateway, in which they charge you 3.2 cents a minute (or whatever) when you exceed the first line.
Doug Shubert wrote:
Deon,
When you say "I've tested up to 6 inbound calls at the same time"
with Broadvoice, is this with 6 $19.95 DID numbers that you have assigned to *?
thanks
Doug
Deon Rodden wrote:
When I initially signed up with Packet8 and they sent their converter, I used a X100P card in my Asterisk server so that it could send and receive calls through Packet8, I suspect the same trick would work for Vonage.
The benefit is you can then have several phones in the house, or one at work, or a softphone in your laptop, register with your Asterisk server and then you can place and receive unlimited local/long distance calls through your Vonage account. You can also have Asterisk answer and you can use it's IVR/Automated Attendant functionalities.
You will be limited to only 1 inbound/outbound call at a time though. I eventually canned Packet8 in favor of BroadVoice, $19.95 a month, unlimited local and long distance, and I've tested up to 6 inbound calls at the same time and it worked.
Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Chris Shaw wrote:
I hold no ill will towards Vonage but I have to say honestly... ewww...
They've already made their feelings quite clear by refusing to allow people
to bring their own devices and taking steps to even hide their SIP servers
(changing the port from the RFC standard 5060 to 5061 for example.) Why not
go with someone who's actually willing to allow you to use Asterisk and any
phone you want like NuFone, BroadVoice, IconnectHere or a host of others
instead of trying to hack Vonage...
At least when I signed up with Vonage they were the only VoIP provider that had numbers in my old rate center and could transfer the number from SBC. It does, of course, suck not to be able to use it with Asterisk. (I could sign up for a soft-phone, but I don't think it'd be with my old number defeating the purpose...)
- ask
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