[asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie

[UIT DEVELOPMENT]

Gotcha on the MODEMs......  thanks.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Thanks in advance,
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