trixbox for home use?

[Oakenfold]

Does anyone have experience with replacing their home service with trixbox here on AT?

Some neighbors of mine rave about trixbox coupled with callwithus.com
Just wanted to hear from the AT crowd before looking into this more seriously.
I've been without a pots service (using vonage for over 2 years and never looked back) for quite a while. I'd like to cut my vonage bill down, the idea of using a PC for a PBX does sound kinda cool.

I've placed this in networking, Jack feel free to throw it in another forum if you feel it isn't related.

 

[Agamar]

It may be a bit of overkill, but if you have the spare hardware and time, it would make a great home system. It really depends on what you want/need.

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: Agamar
It may be a bit of overkill, but if you have the spare hardware and time, it would make a great home system. It really depends on what you want/need.

Spare hardware is not an issue for me. The financial breakdown is the following:if get a DID with 3000 incoming minutes free it runs around $6 a month for my area plus outgoing service (the vendor I'm looking at is .0127 cents a minute) plus electricity (need to determine this).

Sounds pretty good to me compared to Vonage @ $30 a month right now. I really don't use the phone that often, I could probably drop down to a lower plan with them but lately the quality with Vonage has been suffering.

Heck it's probably worth it just to toy around with it and learn something new. :beer:

 

[netsysadmin]

I have a trixbox that I am using with the VOIP service Viatalk. The box works great and was not bad to setup.

John

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: netsysadmin
I have a trixbox that I am using with the VOIP service Viatalk. The box works great and was not bad to setup.

John

John,
what type of phones are you using as endpoints...softphones or hardphones?


If the op wants to have "traditional" phone as an endpoint instead of using his pc to make/recieve calls thats another factor that one would have to consider. i've read a little about using an IP PBX in my home just to make keeping in touch with fam easier, and it seems that not all IP phones are equal.

Alas, I have no reccomendation on the type of endpoints to usue. sorry

 

[netsysadmin]

I am using both hard and soft phones. I have a Linksys PAP2 that was provided by Viatalk as the endpoint. Fortunately they dont lock them so I just set it up as the endpoint for my Trixbox instead. I use both lines for two different cordless hardphones. I also have a few softphones on my computers in case i travel and I want to use my home phone. Everything works really nicely!

John

Originally posted by: RedCOMET

Originally posted by: netsysadmin
I have a trixbox that I am using with the VOIP service Viatalk. The box works great and was not bad to setup.

John

John,
what type of phones are you using as endpoints...softphones or hardphones?


If the op wants to have "traditional" phone as an endpoint instead of using his pc to make/recieve calls thats another factor that one would have to consider. i've read a little about using an IP PBX in my home just to make keeping in touch with fam easier, and it seems that not all IP phones are equal.

Alas, I have no reccomendation on the type of endpoints to usue. sorry

 

[Oakenfold]

Thanks for the additional information, I currently use a linksys pap2 with Vonage and will plan on using that when I move to trixbox (not sure if this will work). I'm planning on toying with it in the next day or two, we'll see how things go.

John did you run into any quality issues that required for tweaking like echo or poor voice quality?

 

[netsysadmin]

No quality issues at all. Arent the Vonage PAP2's locked so you cannot make any changes to them?

John

Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Thanks for the additional information, I currently use a linksys pap2 with Vonage and will plan on using that when I move to trixbox (not sure if this will work). I'm planning on toying with it in the next day or two, we'll see how things go.

John did you run into any quality issues that required for tweaking like echo or poor voice quality?

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: netsysadmin
No quality issues at all. Arent the Vonage PAP2's locked so you cannot make any changes to them?

John

That's what I'm not sure about.
I didn't get mine free (bought it at Bestbuy after my Cisco ATA broke), so I would hope it wouldn't be but I haven't looked into it yet.