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Originally Posted by bwanna
I've been reading about Asterisk and Trixbox, but concerned about the time to maintain it and the reliability of running off house power. We get power outages every so often and don't want my cell service tied to that.
However, your thoughts on my concerns (sans the power issue)?
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UPS for sure for sure. I had two nasty blackouts last night but the server stayed up. UPS the internet parts too of course.
If you only have need for one line then you'd be better off getting a line from any of the dozens of sites and then just connect to them. I run mine for about 10 people so needed several DIDs, several trunks for least cost routing and a copper landline for local calls and fallback. But it is fun playing with your own, you can do both, play with a local server but use the outside server for primary use until you get it perfect. You need ~80kbs in both directions so that becomes another issue if you have heavy internet users on the same line.
Some of the services out there are very flexible and others are just pretty but easy. Flexible and plain looking is better and generally cost less.
1st rule after making a short list is to check latency to where you'll connect and most often connect from (they should gladly tell you the host name such as sip.domain.com). If from a pc you can get <~50ms then you're golden. >100ms and it will suck from a handheld.
edit-> the funny thing is that I run 12 DIDs for 10 people and all the usage including long distance and a 1-800 number for less than a single cell phone plan. That's why I didn't have a cell phone at all until android came along.