Re: [asterisk-users] What's the deal with ATAcomm?

2007-10-02 Thread Kenneth Padgett
> Dear Atacomm Customers, > We apologize, but as of 6:00pm CST Friday, September 21st, Atacomm > and its parent company Ataractic Corporation has ceased > operations. We appreciate the 7 years of loyalty and support from > our customers. We sincerely regret any adverse effects this may have cause

Re: [asterisk-users] Microsoft's Move Into IP PBX Market

2007-05-16 Thread Kenneth Padgett
From c|net News: "On Monday,Microsoft and nine leading phone manufacturers--Asustek Computer, GN, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Plycom, Samsung, Tatung, and Vitelix--announced the public beta program for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007." Now we

Re: [asterisk-users] [OT] OMG Verizon is terrible

2007-04-20 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I once had to oversee Verizon install a PRI line in Manhattan. I live 2.5 hours away, but we made the appointment, and I was there, but the Verizon tech never showed. I made another appointment, and it happened again, and again, and again. I don't even remember how many times it finally took, b

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom 501 sluggish keys: found the problem!

2007-04-17 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I have learned the hard way that using old configs with new firmware is asking for trouble. It is much better to keep your custom configurations in a MAC specific overrides file and replace the sip.cfg and phone1.cfg files completely. This doesn't guarantee that you won't have problems, but it's

Re: [asterisk-users] Vonage fraud controls

2007-04-09 Thread Kenneth Padgett
Has anyone tried pushing calls to a Vonage ATA attached to an FXO card in Asterisk and had your account terminated by Vonage? I'm curious as to whether they will stop your service if you push too many calls through their ATA in a specific period of time. Thanks in advance for the info, SG I kn

Re: [asterisk-users] Verizon-Vonage Lawsuit

2007-04-09 Thread Kenneth Padgett
"The jury found that three of five disputed patents were infringed and all are valid, while rejecting Verizon's claim that the infringement was willful. The patents cover a method of translating calls between the Internet and standard phones, call-waiting features and wireless handsets." Is it j

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom and Asterisk

2007-04-05 Thread Kenneth Padgett
> It's good > to know Polycom has anti-competitive business practices. I also > dislike that they refuse to give out anything but old firmware > versions too. They could do a lot to improve their relationships with their public :( I second that! I like the 501 and 601 phones I have, and they c

Re: [asterisk-users] proposal: a new mailing list for asterisk 1.4, why not?

2007-03-16 Thread Kenneth Padgett
No, it would be yet another list that people would have to subscribe to, and many of the questions/answers for one version are quite relevant to the other. Can't we just require everyone on this list to upgrade to v1.4? :) I'm sure in due time they will anyway. -Kenneth __

Re: [asterisk-users] RE: Polycom reject button

2007-03-06 Thread Kenneth Padgett
exten => 111,1,Wait(1) exten => 111,2,Playback(Randy) exten => 111,3,Dial(Sip/Randy,20) exten => 111,4,Goto(111-${DIALSTATUS},1) exten => 111-BUSY,1,Voicemail([EMAIL PROTECTED],u) exten => 111-NOANSWER,1,Dial(IAX2/${TELIAX_OUT}/212551212) works GREAT This is awesome, I had actually wondered abo

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Firmware

2007-02-27 Thread Kenneth Padgett
Sip 1.5.2 Bootrom 3.1.3 Anyone know any good reasons NOT to use the latest? I believe Bootrom 3.2.2 B and Firmware (SIP) 2.1.0. It's also the stuff the new IP 650's are using. -Kenneth ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- aster

Polycom Firmware -- Was: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 & Polycom buddy status

2007-01-24 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I ran into this problem with an early batch of IP650s. Polycom's firmware version 2.0.3b made this issue go away. Speaking of Polycom firmware, anyone have an up to date source for the stuff? The site I ordered from took down their FTP site that had it. :( -Kenneth

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom IP601 - some hints working, not others?

2007-01-17 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I've just realised - the directory entries that have working Buddy watch are the first in sequence when the extensions are sorted into NAME order, which the phones do when saving their directory files. Looks like it could be a watch limit in that version of the firmware? Could it be that it's o

[asterisk-users] VOIP provider reliability

2007-01-09 Thread Kenneth Padgett
Anyone out there using VOIP for business class inbound/outbound services? I've found my VOIP provider to be less than reliable, SIP registrations timeout, calls drop, they claim IAX2 is too buggy (I find that hard to believe), and pretty much blame all problems on other circumstances and don't act

Re: [asterisk-users] Best inexpensive home office router for VoIP (QoS with maybe PoE)

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Padgett
> Linksys listened to demand and released a version that still has the > Linux firmware. The model is WRT54GL with the L for Linux. > > Newegg has them for $57 after MIR. Note, seems like the 'current' WRT54GL has less flash/memory than older releases of WRT54GS, sadly :-) http://wiki.openwrt.or

Re: [asterisk-users] Best inexpensive home office router for VoIP (QoS with maybe PoE)

2007-01-05 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I'm looking for opinions on the "best value" router to use for home offices. It should work for a scenario in which there are 3 computers and 2 SIP phones, handling QoS so that the phones always have higher priority traffic than the PCs. (and not rely on the phones to do the QoS because some PCs

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and IM

2007-01-05 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I have been asked to get IM via the X-Ten softphone to work with Asterisk. Anyone have any ideas? I have looked on google and other places with no luck. Our system is as followed Linux CentOS 4.4 Asterisk 1.4.0-beta3 X-Lite v3.0 for Windows If by IM, you mean the built-in Jabber stuff in v1.4

Re: [asterisk-users] Problem with centos 4.4 and jabber/gtalk (really iksemel)

2007-01-02 Thread Kenneth Padgett
Bob, It looks like the gnutls development package is called gnutls-devel: 'yum install gnutls-devel' should get the package installed. Yah, I thought that would be it. I have that installed, as well as gnutls. (I basically installed both packages you can find with yum search gnutls). Any other

[asterisk-users] Problem with centos 4.4 and jabber/gtalk (really iksemel)

2007-01-01 Thread Kenneth Padgett
I'm working from the docs here: http://voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Speaks+with+Google+Talk and getting an error doing the ./configure on the iksemel module: checking for getaddrinfo... yes ./configure: line 20399: syntax error near unexpected token `,' ./configure: line 20399: `AM_PATH_LIB