Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 08:09 -0600, Michael Moore wrote: >> We're moving in two weeks, and I'm considering switching to using just >> a SIP phone for our home phone. Has anyone else done this? > > We have all VoIP at out house. It's made up of 2 hard phones upstairs - > 1 down, an Asterisk server, 2 VoIP providers (SIP and IAX) and 1 DID. > >> What were the pros and cons? > > PROS: > Flexible - This comes mostly from running Asterisk (most home VoIP > setups don't give you this). If work calls me, they press "2" to ring > my office downstairs and not bother my wife and family. I have separate > voicemail for me and the family. I can call from phone to phone - this > saves on yelling across the house and trips up and down the stairs. I > can transfer calls. I can call my server and enter a code to then place > outbound calls from my house. I can set the outbound CallerID (works > sometimes). This list could go on forever, but you get the idea. Oh > yeah - BOCK TELEMARKETERS! >
I have an asterisk server setup and am wondering how you did the "press 2 to ring my office"? I know how to get this working with a voice menu where when they call the phone number, it says a nice message to tell them to press 2 otherwise wait for the main number. Is that how you did it, or is it more transparent? And if so, how? Thanks, Trevan
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