On 06/23/2010 09:37 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I'm looking for some ideas on overhauling/revamping our telephone > system. > > We are two busy working professionals. We spend half our weekends away > from home. My wife still has an iPhone. I'm getting an N900. We > have a landline with (terrible) voice mail service. > > I want to tie it all together, somehow. > > I'd like to get a VOIP account somewhere and connect to it with a SIP > server of some sort so that I can do things with that connection. > > I'd like all our voicemails to be stored on that SIP server, so we don't > have to erase them, etc. Actually, I'd like to get them as emails that > we can listen to and organize. > > I'd like to be able to call into my SIP server with the N900 and maybe > the iPhone and then make (cheap) calls anywhere. > > Can one share a Magic Jack connection as a SIP service ? > > How can I use Linux to do some of this stuff without resort to a full > blown asterisk installation ? I don't have much experience with "consumer-aimed" VOIP systems, but here's my two cents worth: First, Asterisk isn't that hard to set up. The GUI tools are pretty easy to use. We use Asterisk here (well, Trixbox, but it's the same thing). Our system uses a Digium card to tie us into the PSTN via POTS lines--we don't use a T1 or other network connection for regular calls, although we do tie into the VOIP system at our east coast division via VOIP over a VPN. Should you use Asterisk and you don't wish to use your home POTS lines, there are a number of PSTN gateways that are pretty cheap you can use such as IPComms (http://www.ipcomms.net). A google search for "PSTN gateways" will reveal more. AFAICT, The Magic Jack widget plugs into a USB port and supports a single phone (has a single FXS jack to plug your phone into), but the operational software isn't available on Linux. I suspect it's proprietary (a'la Skype), so I don't think that's a feasible option. The Vonage system may be better. The box is essentially a four-port wireless router/switch (including two FXS phone ports along with the four 100Base-T net ports) and the Vonage software built-in. It's managed via a web browser so it looks like it's pretty OS agnostic. Then again, there is a project on OpenWRT where you install Asterisk on a Linksys WRT54GL wireless router/switch (gee, sounds like Vonage, doesn't it?). The downside is that there are no FXS ports to plug an analog phone into with this solution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
