[kwlug disc.] Re: John's January 2007 VOIP presentation (outline)

[Unsolicited]

Thanks John.

>>> 1. I saw a reference in an earlier message to a 'LinkSys
>> SPA3000' but ...
>
> LinkSys purchased Sipura. You can still access the Sipura site at
> http://www.sipura.com. LinkSys has the PAP2 and the SPA2002 devices and
> my distributor shows lots of other spa* devices from Linksys.
> http://www.voipdepot.ca is where I purchased before going directly to a
> distributor.

For some reason the way I read SPA3000 note I got the impression it
was a preferred or particularly 'better' device.

Looking at voipdepot.ca, I now understand my earlier confusion. 
http://www.voipdepot.ca/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=80. 
When you click the 'For more information, please visit this product's 
webpage.' link, you get to a service provider spot at LinkSys. Which 
is to say, no wonder my prior search at LinkSys revealed nothing.

Reading your note here, I get the impression that any LinkSys or
www.voipdepot.ca SPA device is equally appropriate. Am I reading this
all correctly?

> I recommend www.trixbox.org as a good start for VoIP.

Thanks. Is there a best first place to go if adding to an existing
machine? Or is trixbox just a FreePBX appliance, so going to
freepbx.org is appropriate? [Mind you, freepbx.org will not DNS 
resolve for me at the moment.]


Overall, my impression so far is:
- there are only so many hours in a day.
- doing this is going to take time. Hard to chose between building a 
mythTv box and a trixbox. Hmmm. Get the wife into the basement for 
Y&R, and away from me, or playing with dial plans. Hmmm.
- getting a SPA3102 and just plugging it in means instant soft-phone 
use, and no change to current physical phones. It should just work 
instantly.
- getting TrixBox, even better, in a vm under a CentOS mythTv box, 
should provide instant VoIP use (assuming an unlimitel account), and 
it should all just work instantly.
- as time permits, one can play with interesting things, such as 
forwarding to cell phones, or calling in via cell phone and going out 
long distance.

Is that a reasonable impression?

John Van Ostrand wrote, On 1/29/2007 11:03 AM:
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:03 -0500, Unsolicited wrote: 
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