I had issues when two major ISPs started fighting and causing issues but they resolved their dispute after a little while and voicepulse happened to also move to a new datacenter and their new site shared an ISP with me. So the real moral of the story is before you sign up check out the traceroute to their site, run some long term trending for loss and jitter, and understand that yup, its still the Internet. But its cheap, it works, and they are very asterisk friendly. There are 0 features for their connect line of service (they have a consumer one with the bizillions of features) and you have to prepay for all services (it auto-loads chunks of $$$ when you get low). All local outbound calls are charged so if you are looking at many thousands of minutes you could see a hit from that. But at the crazy low price for calls its not a big deal. Enjoy! --j Matt Dittbenner wrote: > This was actually very helpful! Have there been any problems or > complications you have experienced with them? So far, they look great > and seem to get favorable reviews. Any additional info you think might > be useful to me would be great. > > Thanks for the idea...right now, it looks like this might be exactly > what we need. > > J Cruit wrote: >> Just an FYI, I've used Voicepulse Connect which is a VOIP provider so >> no hardware is actually needed. They give you 4 lines by default for >> 11$ a month per phone number plus long distance charges for outgoing >> calls at something around .0002 to .0008 cents a minutes. I've had >> good success with them and they are not only very Asterisk friendly >> they even have a built in script in Trixbox to set them up. >> >> My box was very similar in configuration and I was hovering around 1% >> utilization most of the time. But I can't help with the specific >> cards as again, I used that VOIP provider. >> >> --j >> >> Matt Dittbenner wrote: >>> I've been watching the recent thread regarding Asterisk hardware. A >>> small company I work for is looking to implement an Asterisk server >>> to allow us to work off-site, yet still be reachable. We would like >>> to have 4 lines that forward over to mobile phones if they are not >>> answered. >>> >>> I am looking for some hardware recommendations, and possibly common >>> pitfalls we might encounter attempting this setup. >>> >>> The machine will not likely be dedicated to Asterisk. Specs are: >>> >>> * CPU: Athlon64 3000+ >>> * Memory: 1GB >>> * MoBo: Asus K8N >>> >>> We have been looking at the Digium TDM-400, and the Sangoma A200. >>> Are there any recommendations as to which of these would be >>> preferred and why? Additionally, if you would recommend other >>> hardware, we are open to suggestions. >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated and I can provide more info if >>> needed. Thanks all! >>> >>> -Matt >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > -- > > <http://www.plaudit.com/> > Matt Dittbenner > *EMAIL* • matt at plaudit.com <mailto:matt at plaudit.com> > *WEB* • www.plaudit.com <http://www.plaudit.com/> > *PHONE* • 651.646.0696 > *FAX* • 651.917.0600 > *ADDRESS* • 2470 University Ave. W. > > St. Paul, MN 55114 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >