[Asterisk-Users] WRT54GS zaptel timing device

[Tom]

At 09:18 AM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
>Curious, can a WRT54G with this firmware, using Wonder Shaper, act as a
>cheap QOS device?

Yes.  Join the Sveasoft forum and there is good info on 
this.  http://www.sveasoft.com/

I personally have not tried the QOS yet but it is supposed to work.

Tom

>One of our biggest problems is customers with Cable/DSL (256k upload) trying
>to upload files or browse several webpages at once, it affects the quality
>of the phone calls, naturally. We were looking into cheap managed switches
>for their QOS ability, but it seems the LinkSys would be a cheaper/easier
>solution.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:48 AM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] WRT54GS zaptel timing device
>
>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Underwood" <steveu at coppice.org>
>To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
><asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:27 AM
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] WRT54GS zaptel timing device
>
>
> > Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>     I know that I can run Asterisk on the Linksys WRT54GS, but can I do
> >> Zaptel as well?  I would really like a timing device so I can do IAX2
> >> trunking - but I don't know how to go about it.  Has anyone done this?
> >>
> > You *know* it can? Does that mean you've actually seen it work? A number
> > of people have said it can run, but after questioning it turns out to be
> > hearsay.
> >
> > You can replace the Linksys image with one of serveral. You can build
> > Asterisk with the tools. You can load that image into the Linksys box. You
>
> > can run it. Then you seem to get stuck, because something fouls up in the
> > threading and nothing works.
> >
> > Anyone who can post a real way to get Asterisk running on these Linksys
> > boxes will be considered a hero :-)
> >
> > Steve