[NBLUG/talk] Wildcard Asterisk GnoPhone

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On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 08:53, Mark Street wrote:
> 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.

Yea, I imagine that I will be looking at * servers all over the place
;-)

It sure would be cool to deploy a wifi aware drop box that you can clip
on a line huh?

> 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.

Doh!

> 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.

If I have a full ppp connction, why would I have problems? If it's just
a UDP port that I make a connection to, I don't see how it can be a
problem.

I imagine that I have a great deal to learn, PBX systems aren't very
simple. Not terribly hard AFAIK but not simple either.

I am on freenet right now actually ;-)

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

I got gnophone to work (still really buggy), cvs is broken right now
though, so use testing...

What other softphones do you use?
What hardware phones do you use?

> 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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