[Gllug] PC2phone

[Andy Farnsworth]

Try Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org/).  For not very much money and a low
end machine you can put a phone line anywhere that has a full time (or even
dialup) internet account.  I have friends who have done this with the
following setup:

Scrap PC(tm) : Pentium II 300, 64Mb RAM, 4 Gb HD
WildCard X100 FXO card http://store.yahoo.com/asteriskpbx/wildcardx100p.html
($99)
Asterisk PBX
Phone Line: $10 / month in the US.

Using a scrap PC that was just laying around and putting a $100 (~70 GBP)
Wildcard into it turned this little device into a VOIP gateway out to the
real world Telephone System.  Then you can either buy one of these:
http://quicknet.net/products/ipc.htm or a VOIP phone like the SNOM 100
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5199947519.html and you are live from
anywhere in the world that has a net connection.  These devices usually
don't need much bandwidth so a dialup connection on your end is enough.
Remember that telephone conversation is only about three Kilohertz in
bandwidth so with compression it works very well even full duplex over
anything greater than 28.8.

Andy Farnsworth

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Norman Duncan
Sent: January 27 2003 16:02
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] PC2phone


Does anyone know of a pc2phone service that works with LinuX

I have googled and asked a range of services to no avail. Some people
seem to be trying to configure things for Net2phone .... but I dont  see
anything clear.

¡It would really help to reduce my phone bills home!

Norm


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