Personal VOIP/PBX using Asterisk, part 1
Background Voice over IP is simply placing phone calls over the Internet instead of traditional phone lines. This means the calls are usually cheaper, but not free in many cases since often the telco...
View ArticleIP Telephony Codecs
My first stumbling block when installing and trying to get Asterisk PBX working were the codecs and mismatching. If both ends of a connection can’t negotiate the same codec, the call won’t complete. I...
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Personal VOIP/PBX using Asterisk, part 2
This is part two of my series on how to set up an asterisk server for home use on a Linode VPS — but is applicable to any host that doesn’t have additional hardware telephony devices installed in the...
View ArticleUsing the Linksys SPA-3102 as a VOIP ATA
In other blog entries I’ve been discussing a larger project of setting up a personal Voice over IP (VOIP) Asterisk server using the Linksys SPA-3102 VOIP gateway device. An ATA (Analog Telephone...
View ArticleHow to do a Data Only Smartphone Plan for $25/month
These days having a smartphone means spending $60/month or more for a base package of loads of minutes you may never use, text plan, and a mandatory data package. But what if you could buy just data,...
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