[Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-20 Thread jennyw
Hi, We recently tried installing Asterisk for a small office. We figured the safest way to go would be to buy from someone who sold equipment specifically for Asterisk and to use a consultant that they recommended. However ... it didn't turn out so great. Sound quality is terrible -- the ec

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-21 Thread jennyw
Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. I'm going to stop by the office tomorrow to try some of these out. Here's more info on the setup: We bought a brand new computer for this -- I don't have the specifics right now, but will look that up in the office tomorrow. We have two Digium cards -- a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread jennyw
Dave Cotton wrote: This was your first experience with *, was it also the installers? Only sharing with the next busiest card in the machine the one feeding the IP phones. Yeah, I know, in retrospect it sounds really odd that we did that, but at the time he thought there was a chance it wou

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread jennyw
Karl S. Katzke wrote: Ooh. Jenny, your problem might be the motherboard. (I should know, I run that same motherboard at home as my gaming machine.) It's a piece of crud. Oh, great. ;-) For next time, does anyone have recommendations for a particular motherboard or a particular type of mothe

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread jennyw
dbruce wrote: The solution to the IRQ issue is IO-APIC. Recompile your kernel with IO-APIC support (most new motherboards support IO-APIC)... If your board supports it, It WILL solve all your IRQ issues... If your board does not support it then it will make no difference. I've never heard ab

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small office setup/using analog lines w/ Asterisk

2005-08-22 Thread jennyw
Karl S. Katzke wrote: Next time, I'd actually buy a Dell SC420 or something similar. :-P Honestly, I'm really scared of Dell hardware. Some of the most messed up computers I've worked on have come from Dell. I hear their servers are better than their laptops and desktops, but having only exp

[Asterisk-Users] Motherboards and IRQs

2005-08-24 Thread jennyw
Someone mentioned earlier (I can't find the message now) that they had a motherboard that allowed you to change IRQ assignments in BIOS. Does anyone happen to know how to identify motherboards that can do this? I'm going to put together a new machine now and I'm having trouble picking a motherb

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Motherboards and IRQs

2005-08-24 Thread jennyw
Colin Anderson wrote: Get ye to a used computer store and get one of these: http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-Deskpro-EN-Desktop-550MHZ-128MB-6-4GB_W0QQitemZ52 33796857QQcategoryZ51114QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem [...] cat5 and setting up a telemarketer honeypot. Hey, for $50, what do you have to loose? T

[Asterisk-Users] VoIP providers -- California, U.S.

2005-08-25 Thread jennyw
Hi, Just wondering if people could suggest a good VoIP provider that can service the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area. I've tried race.com (recommended to me) but they're kind of hard to get ahold of. Any other suggestions? This is for a business, so reliability is key. I did

[Asterisk-Users] Meet me conferencing without blind transfers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-09-29 Thread jennyw
Hi, I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED] and am having trouble using the conference bridge that comes built in. We're using Polycom phones. When we transfer the first person into the conference room (e.g. 8101) , they get into the room fine. When we try to transfer a second person into the conference

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Meet me conferencing without blind transfers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-09-30 Thread jennyw
Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC wrote: rather than using the blind and attended transfer functions built into the phones, try asterisk's features.conf -- we use ** for attended and ## for blind. (always use blind for meetme conferences.) Thanks! Will try that! Jen _

[Asterisk-Users] Phones that work well through NAT

2006-04-15 Thread jennyw
Hi, everyone, We've been reasonably happy with Polycom SoundPoint phones, but we only have them installed on the LAN. I've read that they have problems working across NAT. So ... I guess I have a few questions. First, is there a way to get Polycoms to work well over NAT? If not, then are ther