[Asterisk-Users] Newbie has a few basic questions please.

[Wiley E. Siler]

Bruce,

Using a POTS line local with * will get you the same net result as
having the POTS line only.  You will be using VoIP internal and passing
your calls off to the * box to have it dial like a normal phone.  So, no
IP packets move past the box over a POTS line.  That is a pretty useful
feature for someone in my situation where I needed to get a PBX in place
using available infrastructure (we had the POTS and didn't want to pay
for an upgrade to a PRI T1). I just connected up my lines and use my *
like a PBX.

So, if you want to use VoIP exclusively, you would need to pass all your
traffic over an internet connection.  In theory, I think you can use a
digium card with an fxs to connect up an analog phone to the * box.
Then you would just route the call out of your data connection to
someone like IAXtel (http://www.iaxtel.com) where you have registered
yourself and your parent's * box.  The call would pass to their VoIP
connection and handoff to whatever their * box had connected (analog
phones, SIP, whatever).

Peruse the Digium website FAQ and you should come up with lots of
different info regarding what you can do.

Thanks,
W





-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce [mailto:bruce at bruce.homelinux.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:25 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie has a few basic questions please.


I think I am missing the whole purposes of *. i see that it can do mainy
things, but in laymans temrs I am not sure what it does.
I am very proficient in Linux and would like to use * for the
following:

1) I would like to get rid of my landline(verizon) and use voip as my
main means to communicate on the telephone.  I would like to be able to
plug in my plain old phone into my linux box and be able to make a phone
call to my family who has a plain old telephone line going into thier
house, using voip and then I guess connecting to the pstn.  Can i do
this?  If so, how? What hardware do I need? Can anyone connect to PSTN
lines for free? Or do I need to pay some phone company somewhere?

thanks to anyone who can help.

Bruce
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