You don't have to put any money into it. Check out some of the soft phones from Xten or sipphone. I actually bought a SIP phone for $89 just so the wife wouldn't have to talk with a headset. That's all I needed to do the asterisk to asterisk comm. I spent $100 to buy a card to hook up an outside line, but I would recommend spending $130 for the next higher version.
Ed On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Cole Tuininga wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:55, Ed Robbins wrote: > > I've been playing around with VoIP a lot lately. If you want to see some > > cool stuff, check out asterisk. www.asterisk.org > > > > I'm doing IAX2 calls from my house in NH to were I'm staying now in AZ. I > > bought a couple of SIP phones and had it setup in no time. When I come > > back for Thanksgiving, I'll have a full blown PBX running at my house with > > autoattendant, voicemail, etc... > > I've been looking more and more at asterisk. Not having *any* > experience with phone related stuff, it's a little intimidating but it > seems like there's a lot of documentation out there. One question I'd > have for you, Ed, is what kind of financial investment did you have to > put into hardware for this (if you don't mind my asking)? > > -- > "Minix is one of the reasons I decided microkernels are bad. > VMS is the reason I decided VMS is bad." -Linus Torvalds > > Cole Tuininga > Lead Developer > Code Energy, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss