Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: During my days at Cisco in 2000 they did the huge "we're all going VOIP internally" rollout, to eat their own dogfood. Even with the entire company relying on it, even with executives badgering them, even with all the experience and talent

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-03 Thread Adam Kennedy
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: The problem with many VoIP manufacturers is that they have an electronics and not a telephony background. Companies which have proven track records in telecommunications are far more likely to produce a product that is reliable and better tailored to suit the needs of

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:40, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >>> Grandstream phones are widely known for being cheap and nasty. I

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread jam
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as > > a home user be interested in any way in VOIP. > > 1. It's just plain MUCH cheaper even for local calls in Australia (I use > iiNet, which isn't the cheapest

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
> An ATA lets u use existing telephones, if you have some that you > currently like. > For a single line in house something like the sipura 3000 is simple and > small and easy > Ken I use an ATA: Linksys PAP2 (which has now been superseded with a model that has the same features as a Sipura 3000

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
Howard Lowndes wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switch

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Wilson
An ATA lets u use existing telephones, if you have some that you currently like. For a single line in house something like the sipura 3000 is simple and small and easy Ken Peter Hardy wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asteri

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > >>> What are people's recommendations for an ip pho

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:43:43AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You've got a few options here. > [snip] > > Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as a > home user be interested in any way in VOIP. * for calling relatives who are interstate/overseas * like

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hardy
Penedo wrote: 2. I use Skype to call overseas too but Skype requires me to seat in front of my computer to talk to people and we virtually never hear it when people call us (we have headsets both to keep the house quiter and to avoid feedback loops). (Skype is supposed to support having the ring

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as a home user be interested in any way in VOIP. 1. It's just plain MUCH cheaper even for local calls in Australia (I use iiNet, which isn't the cheapest but that's

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread John Ferlito
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:38:26PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I know I don't need both; I want to experiment. I attended the SLUG talk > on VoIP - back then a lot of it didn't make sense so I didn't take notes :-) I've finally gotten around to putting up the slides :) http://inodes.org/blog/20

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread jam
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with > > Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks > > about a "Grandstream Budgetone" - what's an Australian equivalent? > > > > What abou

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:06:07AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > Alex Samad wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:02:27PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > >I am looking at going down the same path, looking/playing with asterix. > >And > >there seems to be a familiar choice. > > > >1) to e

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hardy
Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks about a "Grandstream Budgetone" - what's an Australian equivalent? What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate wit

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:41:57AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting > > > with > > > Asteris

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:02:27PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am looking at going down the same path, looking/playing with asterix. And there seems to be a familiar choice. 1) to either cable every thing back to a PC (make it into a PC/PABX), with digium cards or 2) Buy voip phones, that

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting > > with > > Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks > > about a "Grandst

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Fox
On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks about a "Grandstream Budgetone" - what's an Australian equivalent? You can buy a Grandstream VoIP p

[SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks about a "Grandstream Budgetone" - what's an Australian equivalent? What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate with the POTS? The book men