Ok,
My goal is to have a free single residential phone line.
Having read documents until my eyes bled I have FINALLY managed to get a Grandstream HT-386 working with sipgate. Although not completely free it is pretty cheap. The one caveat is that do to port forwarding problems I had to connect directly to the Comcast Modem/Gateway and use a 10.x.x.x from it instead of going through my Belkin router and switch to use my 192.168.0.x LAN. I don’t know how much of a problem that might be. Now, my questions:
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Do I even need Asterisk for what I am trying to achieve.
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It seems as though there are many free incoming services but few free outgoing. What do I need to change in order to use a free outgoing service, can you recommend any, and, what parameters do I need in order to use Asterisk server (or do I even need Asterisk for that matter). I have trixbox 2.6 installed and running. I so appreciate people with larger than average brains who give of themselves to help the rest of us. Here is my configuration and hardware specifications:
Specifications and Versions:
TRIXBOX
Canonical Hostname trixbox1.localdomain
Distro Name CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Kernel Version 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (SMP)
HARDWARE
Server PC:
Model Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz
CPU Speed 2.66 GHz
CableModem:
SMC 8014
Firmware Version 4.01.21-CCR
LAN Router:
Belkin f5d9230-4 Mimo Wireless G Plus
Firmware Version 4.01.21-CCR
LAN Switch:
TEG-S80TXE 10/100/1000 Switch ver. B1
SIP ATA Device:
GrandStream HandyTone 386 :
Software Version: Program-- 1.0.2.9 Bootloader-- 1.0.1.0
HTML-- 1.0.0.10 VOC-- 1.0.0.10
SIP Accounts Available
GoogleVoice
Phonebooth
iptel.org
ip’s
trixbox 192.168.0.44
router 192.168.0.1
cableModem 67.168.x.x
Current Configuration:
Phone <–> Grandstream HT-386 <–> CableModemGateway <–> Comcast Business Switch (external) <–> Internet
Desired Configuration?
Phone <–> Grandstream HT-386 <–> Switch <–> Router<–>CableModemGateway <–> Internet
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trixbox/Asterisk Server