[VoIP] Naive question

[Steph Kerman]

Gizmo is another techno-geek solution.  Anyone who already has an ATA 
set up and has distributed their Voip service throughout the house is 
not going to chain themselves to a PC to talk on the phone. 

If the 2nd port of a 2-port ATA could be hosted by an existing CNET *, 
that would be a step towards what I was asking about.  Ideally, there 
would be some way to register the same ATA port with 2 hosts or 
otherwise at least provide incoming service to it.  Outgoing is less 
important since the commercial Voip subscriber presumably has free/cheap 
toll service and can call the CNET user through the PSTN.  The CNET user 
OTOH might not be a commercial Voip subscriber and being able to call 
commercial Voip subscribers saves the CNET user toll charges.

Steph

John Novack wrote:
> Gizmo may be a good choice then Easy to set up on any Windoze machine 
> with a sound card and mike Free between Gizmo users, open SIP protocol 
> and easy for the CNET/Asterisk user to set up.
>
> I can't speak for how others use CNET/Asterisk, but most of my 
> conversations aren't over my gear, some involves discussions somewhat 
> related, such as why this hobby attracts such strange people, but most 
> of my usage with other members involves matters completely unrelated 
> to telephony. Some of us have commercial VOIP connections as well, 
> integrated into our CNET dialplans Commercial VOIP services usually 
> are locked in some way to the provider, and access to them is, in one 
> way or another through the PSTN scheme, even though it may be VOIP 
> from end to end.
>
> John Novack
>
> Steph Kerman wrote:
>> I am not talking about myself here. Though I have little appetite for
>> monkeying with Windows, I do fix my own car, enjoy playing with
>> switching equipment and will set up an * box of my own at the right
>> time for me. I'm exploring the idea as a means to expand the actual
>> utility of CNET to something beyond what ham radio is mostly about: an
>> end in itself where 90% of the conversation consists of people talking
>> about their rigs.
>>
>> Steph
>
>
>> John Novack wrote:
>>> All require HSIA of some sort, so why wouldn't anyone interested set
>>> up their own Asterisk box? Machine requirements are minimal,
>>> depending on what the goal is. I know of one CNET member that is
>>> running an AMD K6-233 with a small amount of memory and a 10-15 Gig
>>> HD. Those can be had at thrift shops for next to nothing these days.
>>>
>>> John Novack
>>>
>>>
>>> Steph Kerman wrote:
>>>> Is there any practical mechanism by which people who subscribe to
>>>> commercial Voip services could be called on a direct Voip basis by CNET
>>>> users, without going out into the PSTN and NANP?
>>>>
>>>> Steph
>>>
>