Cheerful Curmudgeon
A complete lack of ideas and the power to express them.
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Dec14
Travelling with VOIP
Filed under: VOIP;No CommentsI am on the road this week, working in Syracuse, NY. I recently replaced my desktop computer with a laptop to facilitate this sort of trip. My phone system is VOIP (voice over internet protocol) based so, in theory, it should have been easy to take it with me. This ended up being significantly more of an adventure than I ever dreamed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul22
VOIP Round-Up
Filed under: VOIP;No CommentsSlashdot has nicely pulled together a few links about a Keynote Systems study on VOIP call quality in New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better
I feel like I have been conducting my own survey over the last couple of years. I started with Vonage, used it for a year, and then installed my own Asterisk@Home system to handle phone service for my home, my office, and my wife’s office.
The Conclusions:I have ended up with an Asterisk@Home PBX handling all calls for the home line and the office lines for my wife and me. Incoming calls come through VoicePulse Connect. Outgoing calls go through VoipJet. The business number is with SBC (so it will stay in the phone book) and comes into Asterisk on the only “real” phone service which enters the house. It is set to forward-on-busy to VoicePulse. My toll-free phone numbers are hosted with SBC and calls to them are routed to VoicePulse. My wife’s office number is a VoicePulse number.
I use Sipura SPA-2100 telephone adaptors to connect my telephones to the Asterisk system and an old 350 MHz Pentium II computer that was gathering dust to run Asterisk.
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May13No Comments
I started using Asterisk@Home for an office phone system a few weeks ago. Very cool! Basically, Asterisk is a phone system (a PBX) that runs on a PC. If you can imagine something that an full-up office phone system does, I can do it.
Asterisk@Home is a project to make Asterisk easy to install. Read the rest of this entry »
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