Re: [asterisk-users] wireless ATA
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jeff LaCoursierej...@jeff.net wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jimmy Godbout wrote: Take a look at wrp400 from Linksys/Cisco. It has 2 fxs, 802.11g and 4 switched ports + wan. Sigh, I suppose this is exactly what I was talking about :) You guys sure know how to spoil a good project. Hard to compete with Cisco! I read a handful of reviews on this unit and most people seem happy with it. For $110 you probably can't go wrong. j ___ -- 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 On a side note, dd-wrt came out with a serious security patch this week to fix a CSRF / XSRF vulnerability. dd-wrt needs to be patched now. ___ -- 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
[asterisk-users] wireless ATA
I have a need for an ATA that will register over wifi. *NOT* a DECT phone or other cordless type phone plugged into a wired ATA. Not seeing one right off, and following the recent discussions about compact fanless systems, I thought a custom build-your-own might not only be useful for my purpose, but may be a viable product in its own right. So I started looking for mini-PCI based FXS cards. The only one I seem to find is the OpenVOX A400M. Anyone have experience with it? Any alternatives? Having perused the last fifty or so emails on the various motherboards available, several seem to have two mini-PCI ports, so the very basic idea is to buy one of them and put both an OpenVOX card and a 802.11g radio card in it. Is there any reason these smallish motherboards would be unable to power both boards? Heat issues? Any suggestions on how to choose one of the wifi cards? I would like to run DD-WRT on this beast to handle the wifi-client mode, and I noticed (though have not tried) that DD-WRT has a build that includes asterisk, which would of course drive the FXS port. I figure the whole thing should cost less than US$250, and in quantity perhaps much less. Another thought is to skip the whole FXS port card and use the built-in sound interface to the small motherboard to drive a simple headset based phone. That would be significantly cheaper. If anyone is as interested as I am in creating this beast and would like to donate the needed pieces to the cause, I will commit to writing a web interface and the pieces to do remote provisioning, and we can market the new product... Cheers, j ___ -- 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] wireless ATA
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: why not just put something like a wet11(wireless bridge) and pap2t(2x fxs) in the same box ? dev time = 0 cost ~100 those are just two of the many products that would work together to do what you want. I have a need for an ATA that will register over wifi. *NOT* a DECT phone or other cordless type phone plugged into a wired ATA. Not seeing one right off, and following the recent discussions about compact fanless systems, I thought a custom build-your-own might not only be useful for my purpose, but may be a viable product in its own right. So I started looking for mini-PCI based FXS cards. The only one I seem to find is the OpenVOX A400M. Anyone have experience with it? Any alternatives? Having perused the last fifty or so emails on the various motherboards available, several seem to have two mini-PCI ports, so the very basic idea is to buy one of them and put both an OpenVOX card and a 802.11g radio card in it. Is there any reason these smallish motherboards would be unable to power both boards? Heat issues? Any suggestions on how to choose one of the wifi cards? I would like to run DD-WRT on this beast to handle the wifi-client mode, and I noticed (though have not tried) that DD-WRT has a build that includes asterisk, which would of course drive the FXS port. I figure the whole thing should cost less than US$250, and in quantity perhaps much less. Another thought is to skip the whole FXS port card and use the built-in sound interface to the small motherboard to drive a simple headset based phone. That would be significantly cheaper. If anyone is as interested as I am in creating this beast and would like to donate the needed pieces to the cause, I will commit to writing a web interface and the pieces to do remote provisioning, and we can market the new product... Cheers, j ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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] wireless ATA
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jon Pounder wrote: Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: why not just put something like a wet11(wireless bridge) and pap2t(2x fxs) in the same box ? dev time = 0 cost ~100 those are just two of the many products that would work together to do what you want. But that wouldn't be anywhere near as fun :) It doesn't accomplish the end goal of having a product, which I think there would be a market for, either. The cost is a bit more than $100, though, too - WET11's seem to go for about $70, and the PAP2T for $50... but that is still significantly less than what I am talking about. Would anyone buy such a product if it existed? j I have a need for an ATA that will register over wifi. *NOT* a DECT phone or other cordless type phone plugged into a wired ATA. Not seeing one right off, and following the recent discussions about compact fanless systems, I thought a custom build-your-own might not only be useful for my purpose, but may be a viable product in its own right. So I started looking for mini-PCI based FXS cards. The only one I seem to find is the OpenVOX A400M. Anyone have experience with it? Any alternatives? Having perused the last fifty or so emails on the various motherboards available, several seem to have two mini-PCI ports, so the very basic idea is to buy one of them and put both an OpenVOX card and a 802.11g radio card in it. Is there any reason these smallish motherboards would be unable to power both boards? Heat issues? Any suggestions on how to choose one of the wifi cards? I would like to run DD-WRT on this beast to handle the wifi-client mode, and I noticed (though have not tried) that DD-WRT has a build that includes asterisk, which would of course drive the FXS port. I figure the whole thing should cost less than US$250, and in quantity perhaps much less. Another thought is to skip the whole FXS port card and use the built-in sound interface to the small motherboard to drive a simple headset based phone. That would be significantly cheaper. If anyone is as interested as I am in creating this beast and would like to donate the needed pieces to the cause, I will commit to writing a web interface and the pieces to do remote provisioning, and we can market the new product... Cheers, j ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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] wireless ATA
Take a look at wrp400 from Linksys/Cisco. It has 2 fxs, 802.11g and 4 switched ports + wan. -Original Message- From: j...@jeff.net Sent: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:05:25 + (UTC) To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] wireless ATA On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jon Pounder wrote: Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: why not just put something like a wet11(wireless bridge) and pap2t(2x fxs) in the same box ? dev time = 0 cost ~100 those are just two of the many products that would work together to do what you want. But that wouldn't be anywhere near as fun :) It doesn't accomplish the end goal of having a product, which I think there would be a market for, either. The cost is a bit more than $100, though, too - WET11's seem to go for about $70, and the PAP2T for $50... but that is still significantly less than what I am talking about. Would anyone buy such a product if it existed? j I have a need for an ATA that will register over wifi. *NOT* a DECT phone or other cordless type phone plugged into a wired ATA. Not seeing one right off, and following the recent discussions about compact fanless systems, I thought a custom build-your-own might not only be useful for my purpose, but may be a viable product in its own right. So I started looking for mini-PCI based FXS cards. The only one I seem to find is the OpenVOX A400M. Anyone have experience with it? Any alternatives? Having perused the last fifty or so emails on the various motherboards available, several seem to have two mini-PCI ports, so the very basic idea is to buy one of them and put both an OpenVOX card and a 802.11g radio card in it. Is there any reason these smallish motherboards would be unable to power both boards? Heat issues? Any suggestions on how to choose one of the wifi cards? I would like to run DD-WRT on this beast to handle the wifi-client mode, and I noticed (though have not tried) that DD-WRT has a build that includes asterisk, which would of course drive the FXS port. I figure the whole thing should cost less than US$250, and in quantity perhaps much less. Another thought is to skip the whole FXS port card and use the built-in sound interface to the small motherboard to drive a simple headset based phone. That would be significantly cheaper. If anyone is as interested as I am in creating this beast and would like to donate the needed pieces to the cause, I will commit to writing a web interface and the pieces to do remote provisioning, and we can market the new product... Cheers, j ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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] wireless ATA
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jon Pounder wrote: Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: why not just put something like a wet11(wireless bridge) and pap2t(2x fxs) in the same box ? dev time = 0 cost ~100 those are just two of the many products that would work together to do what you want. But that wouldn't be anywhere near as fun :) It doesn't accomplish the end goal of having a product, which I think there would be a market for, either. The cost is a bit more than $100, though, too - WET11's seem to go for about $70, and the PAP2T for $50... but that is still significantly less than what I am talking about. Would anyone buy such a product if it existed? Personally I would go for the approach of having a couple off the shelf products even if they were inside a box to pretty it up. That way I know when there is a problem, I can just run out to any big box store and get parts to fix it quickly, and if I am keeping spares around the wired/wireless spares are partially the same components. I tend to stay away from specialty devices where possible just because when you need a replacement NOW its hard to find one. j I have a need for an ATA that will register over wifi. *NOT* a DECT phone or other cordless type phone plugged into a wired ATA. Not seeing one right off, and following the recent discussions about compact fanless systems, I thought a custom build-your-own might not only be useful for my purpose, but may be a viable product in its own right. So I started looking for mini-PCI based FXS cards. The only one I seem to find is the OpenVOX A400M. Anyone have experience with it? Any alternatives? Having perused the last fifty or so emails on the various motherboards available, several seem to have two mini-PCI ports, so the very basic idea is to buy one of them and put both an OpenVOX card and a 802.11g radio card in it. Is there any reason these smallish motherboards would be unable to power both boards? Heat issues? Any suggestions on how to choose one of the wifi cards? I would like to run DD-WRT on this beast to handle the wifi-client mode, and I noticed (though have not tried) that DD-WRT has a build that includes asterisk, which would of course drive the FXS port. I figure the whole thing should cost less than US$250, and in quantity perhaps much less. Another thought is to skip the whole FXS port card and use the built-in sound interface to the small motherboard to drive a simple headset based phone. That would be significantly cheaper. If anyone is as interested as I am in creating this beast and would like to donate the needed pieces to the cause, I will commit to writing a web interface and the pieces to do remote provisioning, and we can market the new product... Cheers, j ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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 ___ -- 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] wireless ATA
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I have a need for an ATA that will register over wifi. *NOT* a DECT phone or other cordless type phone plugged into a wired ATA. [snip] I would like to run DD-WRT on this beast to handle the wifi-client mode, and I noticed (though have not tried) that DD-WRT has a build that includes asterisk, which would of course drive the FXS port. This looks interesting: http://www.alibaba.com/product-tp/105418077/Wireless_11b_g_VoIP_SIP_FXO.html Or, how about something like the venerable Linksys WRT-54G talking to an Ebay ex-Vonage Linksys PAP2? You get a 4 port router and the option of wired access to boot. Should price out under US$100. Thanks in advance, Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 ___ -- 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] wireless ATA
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jimmy Godbout wrote: Take a look at wrp400 from Linksys/Cisco. It has 2 fxs, 802.11g and 4 switched ports + wan. Sigh, I suppose this is exactly what I was talking about :) You guys sure know how to spoil a good project. Hard to compete with Cisco! I read a handful of reviews on this unit and most people seem happy with it. For $110 you probably can't go wrong. j ___ -- 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
