[NBLUG/talk] Wildcard Asterisk GnoPhone

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Mon Aug 18 08:51:02 PDT 2003


Yeah,..... your base would be the desktop machine for dialout though... unless 
you could use other * servers on the network that offered dialout from their 
location.

I just deployed an * box with 2 X100P's for a company in Napa awhile back.  
And just missed out on a 30K+ bid for a 50 station PBX terminating 2 T1's 
into * running CIsco 7960 SIP Phones.

The VPN may give you problems depending on how you setup *.  Hang out on * 
chat #asterisk at freenode.net and join the mailing list... ask alot of 
questions... you have ALOT to learn...  It certainly ain't free....it burns a 
lot of time.

I have use gnophone and kphone and a few other softphones with my asterisk 
server no problem.... not the best quality though.

On Monday 18 August 2003 08:16, error wrote:
> So as a frequent traveler, I want a phone that is world wide, that I
> control, no limits on voicemail, that I don't have to carry, is calling
> from the US no matter where, doesn't have roaming charges. So this
> points me to Asterisk.
>
> My plan is something like this:
>
> I have desktop machine and I install a Wildcard X100P[1].
> Then I have this box running some sort of VPN software (like IP Sec or
> PPP over SSHv2).
> The same box with the Wildcard will run Asterisk for all my pbx needs.
>
> Entire eris, my laptop.
>
> I go to wifi network "linksys" (the foobar of wifi!) and fire up my vpn.
> Then I fire up gnophone[2] and connect to my pbx server.
>
> So my questions:
> How well does it work to call out from my laptop (assume full duplex OSS
> sound card) with a headset?
>
> Then, how hard would it be to toss in another phone (does cisco have a
> cheap 802.11b phone?) and as long as only one dials at once (or calls
> each other) be able to call out to the world at large?
>
> What do YOU think of this idea to have my own small traveling phone
> station? Does it seem feasible?
>
> It seems that this might only cost $100 (once, no other fees), that
> seems like a really awesome way to make phone calls around the world
> from the world...
>
> Comments?
>
> [1]( http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=wildcard_x100p )
> [2] Or perhaps (http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/) because gnophone
> seems to not compile and even the deb isn't working.

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