[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Majed B.]

Ahmad,
Too bad you ordered that OpenVox card! I found an even cheaper card!!!
The X100P SE: http://www.x100p.com/products_1.htm
It's fully compatible with Asterisk, offers one port, and is quite
small compared to the Digium card.
That product can be found on eBay so far.

As for not using the 1.6 branch of Asterisk: I looked around for the
changelog between 1.4 & 1.6 and didn't find anything that says 1.6 is
good to go.

1.4 has been on production for quite some time and is used on Asterisk
Appliances. I haven't seen Asterisk appliances using 1.6.

I'll be using the 1.4 setup at home so I don't have time to play
around with 1.6 and 1.4 already offers what I need, and more!

Currently, I'm working on writing another post on how to configure
trixbox for home usage: extensions, ring groups, Day/Night Control,
Time conditions and rules & a few more things ;)

Also, I've contacted KBM (IBM partner in Kuwait) and asked them about
Cisco's IP phones and their pricing. I told the salesman that I wanted
the most basic model and he suggested CP-7911G. It supports SIP and
has 2x 100Mbps Ethernet ports (A pass-through to your computer).

I'll keep you posted on the pricing. If you know a company that sells
SIP phones in Kuwait, let me know!

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:11 PM, <kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
> Trixbox 2.6 based on Asterisk 1.4.x while Trixbox 2.8 is based on the new
> tree of Asterisk 1.6.x. Both should be stable but the 1.6.x has more
> features to be tested and deployed.
>
> I myself started using 2.x which was based on Asterisk 1.2, i would go to
> the lower branch since the main issue everyone suffer from is the stability
> of the driver.
>
>
> --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>
> From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 6:42 PM
>
> Majed,
>
> Thanks for your post, I've ordered openvox card, downloading trixbox
> now, and going to buy a desktop in few hours :)
>
> btw, you've mentioned that you downloaded trixbox 2.6 because 2.8 is not
> stable? I see it marked as stable in trixbox website.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>
> Majed B. wrote:
>> I finished writing the steps I took to configure trixbox & making
>> caller id work.
>>
>>
>> http://mbhtech.blogspot.com/2009/07/configuring-asterisktrixbox-for-kuwait.html
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Bashar
>> Al-Abdulhadi<bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
>>> yes when it comes of renting your own E1, and purchasing a call manager
>>> and
>>> all its related devices then you need a local guy to manage it
>>>
>>>
>>> with FT's you only pay per extension and everything is hosted at their
>>> premises and every office/location you add just get a single data link
>>> and
>>> put as many extensions as you want on that location
>
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       Majed B.