My Sipura SPA3000 fails the spouse test on every incoming call. :)
Outgoing is happy though.
I have quite a few people using PAP2s and they're all contented as long as
you get a router running QoS (Linksys WRT54GL with openwrt is my fave).
- Ian
On 10/27/06, John Van Ostrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 12:57 -0400, Rob Russell wrote:
> Get enhanced phone service & long distance to Michigan, Toronto,
> Chicago & California for next to nothing. Integrate some simple X10
> stuff. Eventually set up call routing from my cel phone to get the
> same stuff I can get from home.
>
> How I think I'm going to do this:
>
> As far as I can tell the cheapest way to get started is with an ATA
> and a DID (adding a second DID for the cel phone to call later).
So you'll be using a VoIP provider.
> For the ATA I'm looking at ordering the Linksys PAP2-NA or PAP2T-NA
> online (they're the same price and I can't tell the difference). I see
> some Grandstream units that are cheaper but I get a better feeling
> about the Linksys one from bits I've read on this list. Any technical
> reasons to choose one or the other? Echo? Ease of use?
I have played with the SPA3000 and it works really well. If the rest of
the Sipura line (now owned by LinkSys) are as good then you'll be fine.
You may want to get more than one FXS port and give your house extra
extensions.
> For a DID I want a Windsor phone number, so I've found LES.net that
> looks okay. Unlimitel gets a lot of praise here but doesn't have
> Windsor DIDs as far as I see (519 but not Windsor).
I really like LES.net's web interface, (ie. that they have one) however
the sound quality hasn't been that great. Unlimitel, however, has been
almost flawless. Give both a try and see which works best for you.
> In order to route
> calls to and from my cel, I think I'll need a second DID and I'll be
> paying twice for my minutes (once for each DID while a call is
> active).
A second did is not needed unless you want automatic handling of calls
for two numbers. One option is that you can have incoming calls ring
both your cell and home extensions, or you could have callers get an IVR
where they can choose home or cell.
> I want to order one DID to start with then get another if
> things work okay. I don't understand exactly how the billing rates
> work for a DID, I see a price per minute and I see long distance
> rates. Is the long distance rate just based on where the call
> terminates without regard to where the DID is assigned? If so what's
> the price per minute? Is that in addition to the long distance rate?
> It must be obvious once you've worked in this stuff, but I'm still too
> new to this stuff.
The two providers that you've chosen, assuming your going with the a la
carte option from unlimitel, charge for every minute in use. If the call
is within the vendor's network it is 1.1c. If the call falls outside the
vendor's network it's 2.2c. This has nothing to do with where your DID
is or which city you're accessing the DID in. So you could have a
Vancouver DID that you are accessing from Windsor and when you placed
calls through it you would be charged 1.1c for calls to both Toronto and
Vancouver. The real difference would be for inbound calls and would
affect the callers rates. Callers from Vancouver would see it as local.
Other things you may want to consider is getting a UPS. Also you may
find that when you are busy with DSL your audio quality may suffer. You
will want to test your system when running a peer-to-peer sharing
program like Limewire or Bearshare and see what your results are.
Also consider picking up an ATA that has an FXO and an FXS this way you
can keep your analog line during testing or permanently to use it for
local calls and faxes.
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Chief Technology Officer
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