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[John Novack]

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> Greetings, I'm not presently a member (don't have any vintage switchgear)but know of cnet through a friend who is a participant.
>   
And you don't necessarily NEED to have vintage gear, simply the hope and 
desire to someday have some. Some members don't currently have any, some 
simply some Key equipment and at the other end at least one fellow out 
West has over 1000 lines and several different technologies working or 
near working.
Not sure where in the world you might be, but in the US, at least, there 
still is a quantity of gear around and available.
You need :
1. The desire
2. The space
3. the willingness and ability and time to go after it.

Warning: It is a slippery slope. Once you have some REAL switching gear, 
you will soon discover how primitive Asterisk really is in certain 
areas. Unfortunately, the original design was done with out the benefit 
of some knowledge of history and the current state of the art. Slowly, 
ever so slowly, some of those shortcomings are being addressed.
There was a group of users that were using 311, but when Greg redid 
things after an invasion, they seemed to have disappeared.
Currently there are a couple of free portals from the PSTN into CNET, 
but given the current costs of "real" PSTN numbers and the fact that 
most of us don't have really deep pockets, inward calling to CNET is 
done the way mobile roaming was done in the early 80's

Some of us have PSTN outward calling via prepaid SIP services that 
USUALLY works well.
I have yet to find an IAX service though.

Within our private network things work pretty well, give the  
differences in skill level of the members.

Welcome to the group and hope you can participate.

John Novack
CNET 666-9900