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Posted by Voiper on November 3, 2007, 10:46 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Thankfully, I just found this newsgroup and struggling to find a solution
> for my phones. I am planning on downsizing my small business the first of
> the year and move it back to my home. The current system I have at my
> office was purchased in 1992 and state of the art at that time. Needless to
> say it is pretty much a door stop by today's standard.
>
> I need 3 lines and decided to give Voip a call mainly because of cost and
> also wiring home. I do not intend to move the old office system here. The
> hosted IP PBX providers look promising but I am running into trying to find
> the right phones. My wife's office is on the 2nd floor of the house, mine
> is in the basement. Both are wired with Cat5 cabling, computers are
> networked with linksys, and Roadrunner is used.
>
> I can buy say a linksys 4 line voip phone. That takes care of the office
> upstairs. But where do I find another desk (base) phone for downstairs. I
> see also that one can buy other phones that come with additional wireless
> handsets which would work, but it is difficult to work on a handset all day.
>
> Any ideas or advice really appreciated. At this point I don't know the best
> way to proceed.
>
> Don Harvey
>
>
>
>
>
> > news8...@yahoo.com schrieb:
> >> so I got a question. How do you get multiple phone numbers terminated
> >> on one line?
> > What do you mean with "line"? Yes, it is possible to have several
> > concurrent calls on ONE internet connection. For optimal quality the
> > internet connection should have 150 kbit/sec for each concurrent call.
>
> > in other words, lets say I have a office of 10 people and
> >> they want to share 5 phone numbers, well does SBC give me 5 different
> >> lines (as in 5 different copper cables?
> > No idea who "SBC" is, but from a VoIP provider you can get 5 incoming
> > numbers which can be used on one or more internet connections. Normally
> > you will use ONE connection. Even if you just have 5 INCOMING numbers you
> > can make as many OUTGOING calls as your internet connection is able to
> > carry. You just need someone with a gateway, who is routing these VoIP
> > call into the public network. This should be available at very low cost of
> > say a cent per minute or so.
>
> > And you not need BUYing incoming numbers. You can get them without any
> > cost from IPKALL.com. The rest is just configuration.
>
> > or do they give me like a
> >> trunk like that has all 5 lines on it?) what kind of hardware do I
> >> need to house those lines on an IP PBX?
> > Best choice for internal VoIP PBX is Asterix running on Linux. You will
> > only need a minimal hardware to run it.
>
> > Then it is quite simple and you just need VoIP phones at your LAN to
> > finish the calls. Maybe Headsets or Handsets with USB connections at the
> > PC's in your LAN will suffice if these are running all the time.
>
> > Wolfgang- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Perhaps you can find some useful iformation on CQ VoIP Call web site:
http://cqvoipcall.googlepages.com
There are links to service providers and hardware providers:
http://cqvoipcall.googlepages.com/hardware
Good luck.
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