CS No Patronization taken, The full deal is this. I am not a consultant, I actually work for the company this is being implemented for. We are a low budget non-profit company and the expense of this test is comming out of my pocket till I can prove it works then I will get reembursed. That is fine with me as I am excited about this as I would like to eventually set up a consulting service doing VOIP solutions. I never thought about doing softphones till a couple people here reccomended it. Thank you all for your great advice concerning this, I came into this project knowing nothing now I am fairly confident that I can get everything started and working on a basic level thanks to the help from the documentation, #asterisk on freenode and the mailing list. Thank you all.
P.S. If this was a consulting job, I would just tell the customer they need to buy ip phones flat out. Im a firm believer in KISS, so much so Id be afraid to mess with the ata adapters unless they were just dead set on using their current phones. > > I don't mean to be patronizing at all, but one thing I've learned is > that > if a customer does not want to spend $150 on anything, either he/she is an > incredibly shrewd businessman (because he is going to make you bust your > balls for free until he sees results), or he is really not interested and > he > is cheap. In either case it is best to beat it and wait till the next > customer. > > That's my grain of salt advice, maybe not for you, but for any > developers > who are initiating in the consulting business. > > CS > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James > Taylor > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 5:29 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ATA Adaptor > > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:09:09 -0800, TC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Hi, >>> I am new to asterisk and I am trying to get things set up so I can >>> prove to the boss it works and get the budget to do a full >>> implementation. Does anyone have an ata adaptor or an ip phone laying >>> around they would be willing to sell me for around 30-50 dollars, I >>> will >>> need 2 of them. >> why not just spend the 75 bucks per ata >> > http://voipstore.atacomm.com/shops/ViewItem.aspx/27934028032-31891743744.htm >> >> is $150 too much for the boss's proto-type test ? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Asterisk-Users mailing list >> Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > > Set up your Asterisk, load the X-ten softphone on a PC, call me and I'll > "loan" you a real-world DID number to play with for a few days. If you > can't prove it up with this, you're out of luck. > > -- > James Taylor > 3505 Summerhll Road > Suite 11 > Texarkana, Texas 75503 > 903-793-1956 > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users