[asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie

[Steve Edwards]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote:

> I've got a lot of old hardware laying around and I do have MODEMs - 
> internal and external 56k types.

None of your externals will be of any use and I suspect you will spend 
more time than it is worth trying to get any of your internals working. A 
buck-fifty a month and a penny a minute is pretty darn cheap. You will 
have to be consuming thousands of minutes per month before you will reach 
the break-even point of the cost of the land-line you need to plug into 
the modem.

> Thanks for the hints.  I'll check into Magic Jack type stuff and see how 
> it can help.

MagicJack does not work with Linux or Asterisk unless you plan on spending 
a bunch of time hacking (see google.com) to extract the SIP credentials 
out of your device.

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Thanks in advance,
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