[Asterisk-Users] Caller ID "forwarded" to analog phone?

[Iassen Hristov]

I have done some sifting trough information about adaptors for my purposes
and for my money here is the short list of candidates.

1) Sipura SPA-2000 Phone Adaptor
   + provides connection for 2 phones - means $50/line
   - no second RJ45 port
   $95 at <http://www.thevoipconnection.com>

2) Grandstream HandyTone 286 (SIPphone Mini 286)
   - no second RJ45 port
   $60 at <http://www.sipphone.com/>

3) Grandstream HandyTone 486 (SIPphone Mini 486)
   +- includes a build-in switch (second RJ45, but it is 10 Mbps)
   $70 at <http://www.sipphone.com/>

As you can see from the documentation of the products both the HandyTone
and the Sipura support Caller-ID.


--On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:15 AM +0900 Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing
Lists <benjk.on.asterisk.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:57:08 -0400, Walt Reed <asterisk at linuxguy.com>
> wrote:
>> Check the asterisk Wiki for hardware compatability. I did not see an IP
>> -> FXO (or FXS) device on the pcphoneline site.  They had a couple IP
>> phones that may or may not work with * (check the wiki) and a USB FXS
>> adaptor that may or may not work with *.
> 
> I don't know how to put this diplomatically, but PCphoneline are one
> of those few companies which would appear to be somewhat abusive of
> the Wiki. I had to repeatedly remove their entries from categories
> that the listed product clearly did not belong to. Quite a few people
> ended up buying the wrong product. I know this because some folks
> contacted me for help when they couldn't configure the stuff they
> bought.
> 
> My advice to anyone looking for fxo/fxs gateways would be this: Be
> *extremely* careful about products listed on the VoIP Gateway and ATA
> Wikis if the product listing sticks out with marketing language,
> something along the lines of ...
> 
> "ONLY 59.99 ! Does everything - Works with everything - Needs no
> drivers and no software"
> 
> If it sounds too good to be true, there is a high chance it probably is.
> 
> USB devices for example will almost certainly require some software
> that is only available for Windoze and some softphone, it won't work
> directly with Asterisk. The only USB device that can be expected to
> work with Asterisk is the S100U from Digium and that was only ever
> intended for development and testing purposes, not recommended for
> real usage.
> 
> rgds
> benjk