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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:20:18 +0100
From: Ben Fitzgerald <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben_m_f@yahoo.co.uk"><ben_m_f@yahoo.co.uk></a>
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Re: Asterisk
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:14:08PM +0100, David Abbishaw wrote:
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:55:21 +0000
From: SteveC <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve@asklater.com"><steve@asklater.com></a>
Subject: [Gllug] Asterisk
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<pre wrap="">Hi Steve,
I use asterisk as an answering machine mainly, this uses an X100p
clone card that I bought for about £15. When a call comes in if its
not answered withing about 25 seconds asterisk takes a messages and
emailes a wav file to a distribution list so that the house hold gets
the message at various email addresses (home and work etc), I've also
been able to patch it so that the message includes caller ID, although
you will need the caller ID service from BT. This also then gets logged
to a csv for later reporting.
Doesn't need a beefy machine P400 is plenty.
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Hi David,
don't want to steal Steve's mojo, but I want to hop into this
interesting thread! I wondered if you also made outgoing pot calls over
your x100p clone through asterisk, and if so, what the quality was like.
I have seen comments in the past that the diguim cards were the way to go
but as someone else said, they are not cheap.
Thanks,
Ben.
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Ben,<br>
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Yes, for a while I used a soft phone (on windows) to make and receive
pots calls, this worked fine, without any echo or delay which was nice.
I also for a short while used the same setup via my adsl line as i was
staying else where for a while and wanted to route my calls to me. I
also played with forwarding calls and this too worked well, I have two
x100p's and two pots lines so I was able to forward incoming calls on
my man line out to my mobile, although I picked up some of the cost.<br>
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There are a couple of problems with the X100p, mostly it doesn't
recognize someones hung up for about 7 seconds, so there are quite a
few times when you get a 7 second voice mail of beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, I
can live with this to be honest as the pucker card is £150ish.<br>
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A good place to start if you want to have a play is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/">http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/</a> although you may have issues
with caller id if you dont have the pucker card, apparently the small
patch to enable this will bloat the code,. shame its all about selling
these days.<br>
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There are a couple of other voip servers emerging but Ive not tried, I
set mine up and its been rock solid so Ive not touched it for some time.<br>
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