[asterisk-users] Best cheap card to use for home Asterisk system???
Hi all - I'm building an Asterisk system (Trix2.2) for the house- I'd like to do the following things: I have a single phone line (happens to be Charter Communications VOIP, but I have their ATA and they've connected to red/green pair in the house wiring) What I'd like to do is this: Get some low-end but reliable card/external adapter which would connect to their ATA and tie into Asterisk to take calls and faxes I'm assuming this should be something with one FXO and one FXS port to connect the incoming line to and to connect the red/green wiring in the house to. I don't mind if all the house phones ring at one time for the moment, as line 2 on them are the Asterisk extensions. Whatever I use must also have failover capability, such that when Asterisk is not working right (server down completely OR just not responding) then the unit fails over and cross connects and makes things work just as is normally the case with Charter only. Unfortunately, I don't have a budget of hundreds of dollars for a true Digium multiport card - I've already built out Asterisk and have a Cisco ATA supporting line 2 on a couple of cordless phones, but I'd like to have the failover piece so that if * starts failing, the home phones still work.. Thanks, Tim ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Best cheap card to use for home Asterisk system???
Tim Reimers wrote: I have a single phone line (happens to be Charter Communications VOIP, but I have their ATA and they’ve connected to red/green pair in the house wiring) Ok. so they've installed an ATA which connects your analog phones to their VoIP (perhaps SIP) service. What I’d like to do is this: Get some low-end but reliable card/external adapter which would connect to their ATA and tie into Asterisk to take calls and faxes OK. Since we've established above that Charter's service is VoIP converted to analog, AND since Asterisk isn't really designed to work with fax over IP it is safe to say that it's not worth the effort to attempt to get this to work. I have relatives who have Time Warner's offering and even a stand alone fax machine will not work reliably over their internet phone service. Hell the audio quality is crap most of the time. I’m assuming this should be something with one FXO and one FXS port to connect the incoming line to and to connect the red/green wiring in the house to. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Canadian television show that is popular on PBS in the US, but this sounds alot like the guy on the Red Green Show using duct tape to fix things. If you really want to use Asterisk, you'd be better off getting an account with a SIP provider and using an FXS adapter to feed line 2 on your phones similar to what Charter is doing with line 1. Linksys makes a decent adapter which would suit this purpose. Good luck! Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
