[Asterisk-Users] asterisk @ home ?

[Ed Rubright]

I'm curious as to what a "Washington State free phone number" is?  I live in
Washington State(Spokane) and we get our PSTN service from Qwest which is
certainly not free!

Does BroadVoice.com provide VOIP type DID?  Do they use IAX?

Thanks,
Ed

 

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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk @ home ?

Hi Shawn,

Simple really. Assuming your house is wired for data litter your handsets
about the house and then build the
* server.

When the analogue line rings have * ring all the SIP phones at once.
Whoever picks up first gets the call.
If no-one picks up after say 30 seconds forward the call to an IVR that
offers different voicemails for your family members. You can then offer you
family their own phones with VM and CWI etc.

Add to it a Washington State free phone number and you have 2 lines in the
house for the price of one (sorta).
In my house I buy dialtone from BroadVoice.com for $20 unlimited. My wife
doesn't know she's using the Internet when she calls her friends for over 3
hours at a time. Luckily the house phone doesn't ring often and so she's
never had the experience where she's on the phone and the house line rings.

If you have kids you can still offer them their own phone but not allow them
to make outside calls or call longer than x minutes or even calls after 9pm
by setting up the rules in *. They can still have a call transfered to their
room or even pick up the forwarded analogue line if its configured that way.
Again, a free WA state phone # comes in usefull here for teenage girls.

If you need a hand I'd be happy to share what little skill I have.

Mark


On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:57:23 -0500, "shawn" wrote:

Looking for ideas on asterisk @ home. 1 snom 200 sip,
1 telephone line zatel 100, and 3
users.
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