Setup asterisk to work with vonage

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Do I need prefix like 9 or can I dial straight out? Also do you have any recommendations on ip phones I can use?

Posts: 230 · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject:

If you set it up to be the default trunk or only have 1 trunk then it will dial out without the 9. I use a Sipura 2000 and use my analog phones around the house.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Thank you for all you help Tommy. I going to try to get all configure tonight. Trying to just use ip phones because my house is wired for ethernet so trying to take advantage of that. Cisco ip phones look cool but they add up in price if I want to get 3 or 4 ip phones.

Posts: 230 · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

I like the Cisco phones as well but take a look at the Grandstream phones, the sound quality is good and the cost for them are around $60 - $80.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

I might just end up using a spare cisco ata 186 I have around the house and just use my existing analog phones and make all the phone jacks in the house live.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Can you run ip phones as well as ata adapter for my cordless analog phone?

Posts: 230 · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject:

Thats what I Do. 1 ata and 5 IP phones

Posts: 22 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 22

I have a quick question regarding the asterisk software. Can use this software to give my friends and family IP softphone extensions in their houses, and give them the ability to dial out to the PSTN through my Vonage account? So I think it would go like this;

SP - Softphone ----> NAT through Cable/DSL Router ----> Internet -----> Nat Through Cable/DSL Router -----> Asterisk ---->FXO---->Vonage PAP2----->Nat through Cable/DSL Router ------> Vonage PSTN Service

This would give my family and friends the ability to freely call each other and make outside calls from my local number free to anywhere in NA. Correct? or am I out to lunch?

JT

Posts: 230 · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject:

That is correct but only one call can be going out of the Vonage line at a time but you probably new that.

Posts: 22 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 22

You mean only one call per outgoing line can be made, if my Vonage account has two lines, I could get Asterix to use one of the two outgoing lines for the outside call, depending on which one is free?