[Asterisk-Users] Telephone line installation.

[Manjit Riat]

Thanx that was very much appreciated.

> Who is doing the hunting on your main phone number? Or do you not have a
main phone number in this install?

I guess hunting is only done by the telco right? (or are there any other
options to that)


-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Junker [mailto:gregory.junker at dayark.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:34 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Telephone line installation.

Their repsonsibility ends at the demarc. In a house this is the box
where either exists an RJ11 phone jack, or a pair of screw terminals. If
you have multiple lines coming into a business, you probably will have a
66- or 110-style punchdown block where they terminate their lines (in
some cases they might just hand you a multipair cable and wish you
luck), and you can connect whatever you want to your side of the block.
The tool for 66 and 110 blocks is very inexpensive and available at any
Home Depot in the electrical aisle (data/telecom section), as are the
RJ11 telephone jacks and wallplates you might need (or the RJ11 plugs
and crimp tool, both also available at Home Depot). Total cost for the
tools and materials for 6-7 lines (assuming mounting the lines near the
punch block): about $40 (you don't need the top-of-the-line contractors'
versions of the tools to do just a few of these).

Or, you can pay some guy in a hardhat about $80/hour plus/including
whatever minimum charge they have for internal wiring, and then about
120% markup on the parts, something they would be very happy to charge
you for. ;)

Another option is a fractional T1 and just voice channels (in my area,
with TWTC, monthly it's about $38/channel plus $80 for the local loop,
which for 6-7 business lines might actually be cheaper than 6-7 POTS
business lines), and a single T100P card...and you don't get the myriad
problems reported on this list involving the TDM cards.

Who is doing the hunting on your main phone number? Or do you not have a
main phone number in this install?

Greg

Manjit Riat wrote:

> We are going to be doing an asterisk install with 5-7 lines. So we are 
> looking to get two TDM04B cards. Now I believe when you get your 
> telco(Sprint, etc.) to install the lines they basically just leave the 
> wires without jacks. Am I right? If so, then can we ask them to 
> install the jacks or would we have to do them ourselves?
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