[ILUG] Slightly OT: Setting up Asterisk PBX on my home network

[Mick O'Toole]

Gary,

Thats great thanks. I was wondering how I was to connect the other phones to
the PBX.

Much obliged!

Mick

On 26 May 2010 13:26, Gary Pigott <ilug at garypigott.net> wrote:

> A modem won't do the job. You'll need an FXO card. Digium (who sponsor
> Asterisk) hardware is the best supported by Asterisk, but there are plenty
> of alternatives (and outright clones) available. Digium's list is at
> http://www.digium.com/en/products/analog/ . You can use standard phone
> handsets, VoIP handsets or VoIP soft phones. Softphones and VoIP handsets
> will connect to Asterisk over your home's ethernet network. You can connect
> conventional phone handsets using FXS interfaces. Most telephony cards have
> multiple interfaces and support both FXO and FXS connections, so you could
> configure a 4 port card to connect to one phone line (using FXO) with 3
> handsets hanging off it (using FXS).
>
> <http://www.digium.com/en/products/analog/>Gary
>
> On 26 May 2010 12:51, Mick O'Toole <mickotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Afternoon folks,
>>
>> Slightly off topic but I thought someone on the list may be able to help
>> me
>> or at least point me in the right direction.
>>
>> I have a home network set up with UPC as my ISP. I have a Cisco Router
>> that
>> supplies broadband and phone services. I was hoping to set up a PBX system
>> so that I could add more phones around the house however I've no idea
>> where
>> to start.
>>
>> I'm unsure of what hardware I need to set this up. I have no problem
>> setting
>> up a dedicated *nix box and running Asterisk on it but once that is done
>> I'm
>> unsure of where to go from there.
>>
>> For those of you that are not familiar with the UPC set up there is a
>> Cisco
>> cable modem has 4 ethernet ports and 2 RJ-11 ports. The existing phone is
>> connected to one of the RJ11 ports.
>>
>> Can I connect the RJ11 cable into an Asterisk server via a modem (or do I
>> need other hardware for this) and if so how do I get other phones
>> connected
>> once this is done.
>>
>> I am hoping to use the existing UPC phone number and was hoping that I
>> could
>> do this without using services like Blueface etc.
>>
>> I also read on a previous ILUG thread that people were able to get their
>> mobile phones to ring along with the house phone. This is something that I
>> would be interested in too but my main aim is to try and get the PBX
>> system
>> running.
>>
>> Hope I've been clear enough with what I'm hoping to achieve and any help
>> would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Mick
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