[ale] OT Asterisk user contacts

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Sat Nov 17 07:26:12 EST 2018


Interesting, I guess I could play with FreeSwitch/FusionPBX in the
future, I just wanted to start with something that I knew was around for
a bit.

I'm not planning on running on a VM forever, just as the initial setup
while I configure it.  Later it'll be it's own machine (an SBC of some
variety).  You have FXS ATAs but I guess you don't have any FXO
adapters.  That's the critical part, having FXO support for trunking the
POTS lines.  Maybe I can consider a SIP trunk from someone cheap liek
voip.ms however my network service is not reliable enough to use a SIP
trunk as my phone service.  My phones are VoIP from the ISP (analog
phone lines on the back of the modem) but they stay up even if the
Internet half of the modem is bogged down by something.  My modem gets
hammered a lot with my net service dropping frequently.  The VoIP side
is using QoS and a completely different route that stays up.  A couple
years ago the outside box got wet and I lost Internet service for about
two days but phone stayed up.

On 2018-11-17 03:05, Jim Lynch via Ale wrote:
> I went down a similar route.  However, I dumped Asterisk in favor of
> FreeSWITCH and eventually FusionPBX.
> 
> My observations:
> SIP provider, voip.ms, can be had for about $1.  Unless you sign up for
> additional features there are no monthly charges, just usage. You can
> deposit as much as you like, however,  the minimum is a dollar.  There
> are others, but for getting cheaply I didn't find any better.
> 
> I was running on a VM for a while and suffered a lot of dropped calls
> and stuttering.  I don't think that's a viable solution for production. 
> I use a couple of ATAs, SPA112 and SPA122.  They work OK.  I had an
> SPA112 die on me last year.
> 
> If you are going to want FAX support, be sure to enable QOS on your
> network and create a VLAN for voip traffic.  While phone calls can stand
> a little dropout, FAXes hate it.
> 
> I had/have an A200 I used for a while, but it is a headache to get
> integrated into the system.  Maybe for Asterisk it is easier, but the
> instructions for configuring it for FS were not great and it took some
> magic for it to work.
> 
> I'm quite happy with FS and FusionPBX, now that  I have them on a
> dedicated server, an old Lenovo box.
> 
> Jim.
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