Hello there!<br><br>If your box has a live Internet connection, then all you need is a sip provider.<br><br>Back to when I lived in the UK, there was this "<a href="http://voipuser.org">voipuser.org</a>" which gave me a fixed british number for free, and some outbound call minutes too.<br>
<br>I'm sure that if you search around for SIP Providers, you may be able to find some free stuff.<br>I believe that Outbound calls cost money, not incoming calls. I'm not totally sure tho.<br><br>Anyway, you should find a provider and try to register with them,<br>
<br><br>-<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Tiago Lourenço Geada<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/5 UIT DEVELOPMENT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:uitdev@gmail.com">uitdev@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jamie - I will check that out! Thanks! It is just for testing and<br>
yes, the Asterisk box is connected to the Internet. Cool.<br>
<br>
-M<br>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jamie A. Stapleton<br>
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> Could use the free <a href="http://www.sipgate.com/one" target="_blank">http://www.sipgate.com/one</a> for some testing (assuming that Asterisk is connected to the Internet)<br>
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie<br>
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> Hello All -<br>
><br>
> I've been poking around the past few weeks, trying to familiarize<br>
> myself with all of this. I am new to Linux, VoIP and Asterisk -- to<br>
> be complete. This is my first exposure to all of these technologies.<br>
><br>
> I installed AsteriskNow on my old dual Pentium 833mhz Dell PowerEdge<br>
> 2400 and the install went well. I can log in and poke around in<br>
> Linux and I even configured the box to be recognized on my windows<br>
> network. However, is there a GUI that I can access to help me set<br>
> things up? I've gotten so far as what looks to me like "DOS" windows<br>
> that I can change various things in the OS...<br>
><br>
> I do not have any other hardware installed. No cards and no VoIP<br>
> phones. I havent got to the point where I can make a test call or<br>
> anything like that. I dont know how to tell if Asterisk is up and<br>
> running and how I can tweak it, etc. I've been reading a lot of<br>
> different things, and have become a bit confused. I think that in time<br>
> it will come to me but I needed to stop and ask because I need to know<br>
> if I am on the wrong path for what I'd like to do someday....<br>
><br>
> My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone<br>
> using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my<br>
> cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a<br>
> phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not<br>
> have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning,<br>
> proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the<br>
> evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to<br>
> call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into<br>
> setting up an IVR using a database so I can call into that system from<br>
> wherever and get information read back to me. But, first things<br>
> first.... I'd like to know if I am heading down the wrong path here.<br>
><br>
> Sorry for what might seem as really silly questions, but I am not sure<br>
> how to proceed.<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for any insight that you folks can provide!<br>
><br>
> Mike<br>
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