[Asterisk-Users] Is Voice Pulse Connect good ?

[Manjit Riat]

Thank You for your replies but I should have asked the question in a better
way.

I currently do have a Vonage line as a residential line and keep switching
it back and forth between the home phones and vonage. So I want to get an
additional line just for asterisk.

For that I needed to know if the quality of Voice Pulse is good? Then I also
read about LiveVOIP. And then I have also read about BroadVoice as another
PSTN terminator. 

So in general I just need to know which one is better for me to use for most
of the asterisk features. (For ex. There is a thread going on about issues
regarding DTMF with VPC and LiveVOIP (which I don't think exist in vonage
connected to *)).



-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Milk [mailto:jay at skimmilk.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 1:58 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Voice Pulse Connect good ?

Nothing has changed overnight.  I have a Vonage softphone line going
directly into *, and have had this setup for several months.  The only
drawback is that you STILL need a one hardline, so the cheapest you
could get this with would be about $25/month.  If you wanted to go the
Vonage route without an FXO port, you could signup for a regular
account, go with the cheapest plan and then add a softphone line.  Keep
in mind that you'd still be a vonage customer, and those folks don't
have much flexibility in customer service.  For example, you won't be
able to turn a fax line into a regular line, or a softphone into a
hardphone, etc... They don't know how to switch configs once a line is
provisioned.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Eissler [mailto:mark at mixtur.com] 
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 1:57 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Voice Pulse Connect good ?
> 
> 
> Unless something's changed overnight Vonage doesn't offer a service 
> that can be used directly with Asterisk; instead, you need to use an 
> analog adapter and something that will give you an analog FXO port 
> (like a TDM100). With Voicepulse Connect, VoipJet, and others, you 
> don't need any extra hardware and you won't have any extra D/A A/D 
> conversions.