RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-18 Thread Jonathan Miller
t; Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 1:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question > > > Thanks for all the info Joe. I would really like to > avoid cisco > > phones if possible. We've been bitten so many times by > them alread

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-17 Thread Joe Greco
> Thanks for all the info Joe. I would really like to avoid cisco > phones if possible. We've been bitten so many times by them already (Cisco > Routers, Access Routers, Switches). Generally they provide no support > without a contract, and even that does not keep them from end-of-lifing >

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-17 Thread Jonathan Miller
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Joe Greco > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 1:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question > > > The real problem is that t

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Joe Greco
> The real problem is that the old comdial is dying That's bad. Always a good motivation. We've been having BRI TA's die, pushing us to VoIP too. ;-) > and cannot support any more extensions. That's bad too. > Not to mention constant static problems on speakerphone. The Cisco speakerphone

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Jonathan Miller
. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > James Dumais > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:18 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question > > i have

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Jonathan Miller
ECTED] On Behalf Of > James Dumais > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 5:18 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question > > i have a simple question, why are you switching to an ip > solution? does yo

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread James Dumais
i have a simple question, why are you switching to an ip solution? does your exsisting telephone network work for your company? if so, why not just use asterisk to provide your exsisting network with calls, that way you can continue to use your exsisting hardware, and still use asterisk. if your j

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Joe Greco
> Well basically we are a small operation. To begin with we really don't want > any voicemenu ("press 1 for this, press 2 for that"). I just want all the > incoming calls to ring to the 2 receptionists (and then maybe everywhere > after a while). However, on our current analog (comdial) system y

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Jonathan Miller
than a 1 line phone? Jonathan Miller > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Joe Greco > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 8:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question > > &g

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Joe Greco
> Continuing on/adding my $0.02 to Joe's reply on this thread > > --On Friday, October 15, 2004 23:30 -0500 Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > If Extension 1000 is a Zap channel (i.e. an interface card that has an > > RJ11 into which you plug a phone), that may not be able to recei

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-16 Thread Michael Loftis
Continuing on/adding my $0.02 to Joe's reply on this thread --On Friday, October 15, 2004 23:30 -0500 Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If Extension 1000 is a Zap channel (i.e. an interface card that has an RJ11 into which you plug a phone), that may not be able to receive more than one ca

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simple phone question

2004-10-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Okay, so I've got my "proof-of-concept" system working with soft SIP phones > (SJlabs). Now, if I want to buy hard phones, what do I use? We have 8 > lines coming in to our building and we plan to use all 8. Do we need 8-line > phones to use all 8 lines? If I have a multiline phone, will the