[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk to Vonage

[Deon Rodden]

No. Just one regular $19.95 residential plan.  I've had 6 cell phones 
call my DID and my IVR picked up all 6 times. I never got a 7th cell, so 
I never tested the limit. But I don't want to abuse my BroadVoice 
account so I haven't tried it again. I mainly stick to 1 line, an 
occassional 2nd line/channel may be used, but I know it can do more.

The way I interact with BroadVoice though isn't officially sanctioned, I 
didn't prefer to use their "Asterisk Only" SIP gateway, in which they 
charge you 3.2 cents a minute (or whatever) when you exceed the first line.

Doug Shubert wrote:

> Deon,
> When you say "I've tested up to 6 inbound calls at the same time"
> with Broadvoice, is this with 6 $19.95 DID numbers that you have 
> assigned to *?
> thanks
> Doug
>
>
> Deon Rodden wrote:
>
>> When I initially signed up with Packet8 and they sent their 
>> converter, I used a X100P card in my Asterisk server so that it could 
>> send and receive calls through Packet8, I suspect the same trick 
>> would work for Vonage.
>>
>> The benefit is you can then have several phones in the house, or one 
>> at work, or a softphone in your laptop, register with your Asterisk 
>> server and then you can place and receive unlimited local/long 
>> distance calls through your Vonage account.  You can also have 
>> Asterisk answer and you can use it's IVR/Automated Attendant 
>> functionalities.
>>
>> You will be limited to only 1 inbound/outbound call at a time 
>> though.  I eventually canned Packet8 in favor of BroadVoice, $19.95 a 
>> month, unlimited local and long distance, and I've tested up to 6 
>> inbound calls at the same time and it worked.
>>
>> Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Chris Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>>> I hold no ill will towards Vonage but I have to say honestly... 
>>>> ewww...
>>>>
>>>> They've already made their feelings quite clear by refusing to 
>>>> allow people
>>>> to bring their own devices and taking steps to even hide their SIP 
>>>> servers
>>>> (changing the port from the RFC standard 5060 to 5061 for example.) 
>>>> Why not
>>>> go with someone who's actually willing to allow you to use Asterisk 
>>>> and any
>>>> phone you want like NuFone, BroadVoice, IconnectHere or a host of 
>>>> others
>>>> instead of trying to hack Vonage...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At least when I signed up with Vonage they were the only VoIP 
>>> provider that had numbers in my old rate center and could transfer 
>>> the number from SBC.   It does, of course, suck not to be able to 
>>> use it with Asterisk.  (I could sign up for a soft-phone, but I 
>>> don't think it'd be with my old number defeating the purpose...)
>>>
>>>
>>>  - ask
>>>
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