[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Ahmad Al-Ibrahim]

Some posts suggest using a modem cable rather than phone cable.
http://forum.voxilla.com/linksys-sipura-voip-support-forum/spa3000-no-dial-tone-15732.html#post81622
http://www.asterisk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42449&sid=f7f76ad03a8a80004579d26d75ae1206
not sure if this apply to us.

Regards,

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim wrote:
> I have configured the trunks, inbound routes, zap channels. It seems to
> be something related to the line it self or the configurations to match
> Kuwait PSTN tones, are you able to call the land line? and do you see
> debug information on asterisk CLI while calling the land line? What is
> the 'country' variable value in indications.conf, 'loadzone' and
> 'defaultzone' variables values in zaptel.conf?
> 
> Having a cronjob wont harm your system, atleast it works.
> 
> I've already saw this link in the morning, I dont have acpi variable set
> in grub.conf.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
> 
> Majed B. wrote:
>> I was just about to email and ask you how things are going on your end! hahaha.
>>
>> Well, seems like I wasn't the only one going through trouble...
>>
>> Have you configured the trunk, made sure the Outbound route is using
>> that trunk, and that you have configured a general Inbound route? Did
>> you configure an extension to receive/make calls?
>>
>> I know it sounds silly, but go over them again and try recreating the
>> extension or make a new one and divert the inbound calls to it.
>>
>> I'll look around and see what could cause your problems.
>>
>> As for my side, remember that NAT & externip thing? It worked for a
>> while, when asterisk wanted it to, then it broke. If in the home page
>> the value "Public IP" is "Unknown" then you can kiss your audio good
>> bye on any device outside the LAN from receiving audio. I'm too close
>> to stab someone in the face... it's quite frustrating because my
>> settings should work, and I don't want to run a script with a cron job
>> to replace the domain name with the IP :/
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>> Majed,
>>>
>>> I've installed OpenVox card, ran setup-pstn, the card was detected and
>>> configured, but I'm having problems, not sure what else needs to be done.
>>>
>>> I keep getting lots of
>>>
>>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>
>>>
>>> messages in asterisk console when the line is connected behind an ADSL
>>> splitter, and when i call the land line number the phone rings, pick up
>>> and hangups every second simultaneously with the messages above. I've
>>> removed the ADSL splitter and connected the line directly to the box, I
>>> keep getting busy tone.
>>>
>>> Do I have to configure the device specifically for Kuwait PSTN tones?
>>>
>>> BTW Dahdi is zaptel in Asterisk 1.6
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
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