Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:25:00 GMT
I've recently been contemplating a switch over to purely VoIP services for my home phone. While I have several requirements, there are two really important ones:
- Asterisk Support (IAX) - This allows me to run my own PBX in my house. The benefits of doing so can be found here.
- e911 Support - Obviously, 911 support. e911 maps your mailing address as the address where emergency personnel should show up when you dial 911.
Out of all the providers listed on
VoIP-Info.org's Residential Service Providers list, most do not offer e911, not to mention IAX support. For the ones that do, I decided to do a side by side comparison of them. Here is the fruit of that labor,
Cost Savings of VoIP. This is not enough, however, to make a final determination. I'm going to start using the currently listed "cheapest" option, but I have doubts about quality. I'll update this spreadsheet as I get on with this evaluation.
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:27:00 GMT
I've been eating up alot of my free time installing and configuring an Asterisk server. Asterisk is an Open Source PBX (
private branch exchange) which you can use as a mega-answering machine, a conference center for your family, and a home automation interface, amoung an infinity of other clever things. I've cataloged my
worklog of installing and configuring it so that I can come back later and not worry about forgetting what I did. It should be a fairly concise, if not obtuse, guide to installing it yourself. It's not quite complete yet, I've got to add some more config information but the bulk of it is there.
