[VoIP] Just bought a Western Electric 202

[John R. Covert]

>Does it come with a proper subset

For another $130 it would have...  There's some sort of modern
ringer (at least with a real bell); the seller claims it sounds
like the real thing.  I'll believe that when I hear it.  I may
use a Bell Chime which I just cleaned out and got going.  The
bell will be mounted inside the wall (reaching up from the
basement).

BTW, I was using a REAL 202, in its ORIGINAL service location
at Vanderhoof's Hardware in Concord this afternoon.  They also
have one of the wall phones from the same series, the one with
the round dial on the top and the ringer subset.

>It will be interesting to see how the IAXy works with pulse.

I know it works fine with a 500 set.

>Any reason you went with the expensive ( per port ) IAXy

I have plenty of Cisco ATA 186 adapters for other ports, but
they require DTMF.  This is the only DP port I need.

PCI cards are not an option on MacOS X, especially not on a
Titanium G4 Powerbook, which is what I'm using as my firewall,
NAT router, and Asterisk PBX.

/john