[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on a dialup connection?

[Damon Estep]

> How will this fare?
> 
> I am planning on putting an asterisk box for my brother in 
> the Philippines but they only have dialup internet.  I want 
> them to be able to use a telephone set on a phonejack or 
> linejack card and call me and vice versa via VOIP.  
> 
> My setup in the US is working already with a broadband cable 
> connection.  
> 
> I am thinking that dialup may not work because of the 
> bandwidth required unless I can use the onbord G723.1 codecs 
> on the quicknet cards. 
> Ohphone allows this through h323 I think but I want an 
> asterisk solution.  If not a fullblown asterisk install on my 
> brothers machine, maybe set it up as a h323 client to mine.  
> 
> I am currently working on setting up one of my lan machines 
> with ohphone to connect to my asterisk box to call FWD and 
> such. Is this possible?
> 
> Somehow asterisk must translate the codecs from whatever SIP 
> uses to whatever ohphone uses ( I will force it to low 
> bandwitdh g723.1).
> 
> I am hoping this will work and that the Vonage interconnect 
> will be up soon as this will be a cheap way for them to 
> contact my sister as well.
> 
> I am still an asterisk  newbie so pardon me if the questions 
> seem newbie-ish.
> 
> 
> Has anybody gone down this path?  I hate to have to reinvent 
> the wheel.
> Anybody have any ideas?
> 
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Might work, but not well. Just have him install a softphone on his pc,
connect to the internet, and register on your * box. Use a high
compression codec. It is impossible to get g.711 to work over a POTS
line.