PSTN and VOIP in one box

Yes Asterisk can be used to do this.

Get a Sipura FXS/FXO box and attach your Vonage line to the in on that box and then the out of that box to a real land line then set up your dial plan in Asterisk to do what you want.

So you're saying that I need to use both the Sipura box and Asterisk? I would have thought it would be one or the other. I have to read up on Asterisk some more, but how would the asterisk box be connected to the sipura box? Would asterisk then be controlling the sipura box as a switch?

Ray Cassick \\(Home\\) wrote:

You could use one of the FXO/FXS PCI cards for the Asterisk PC instead of the Sipura box. You can get them from Digium or buy one of ebay

The FXO goes to the telco, the FXS goes to the V> So you're saying that I need to use both the Sipura box and Asterisk? I

The Sipura SPA-300, all by itself, will allow you to call out on POTS line from a SIP connection. Download the SPA-3000 manual from Sipura to see the full set of gatewaying functions it can do.

The problem you'll find is that Vonage doesn't really let you use your own equipment. They want you to use theirs and they lock it down so you can't change anything.

(BTW. I have a spa-3000 but just use it with asterisk. I did see all the standalone gatewaying functions in the manual but have never used them.)

-wolfgang

Why is everyone making this harder than this is? You have a vonage box, which means in reality you have a plain old telephone line (POTS). and you have a local (POTS) line.

buy a two line phone and you're done. if the phone won't let you plug in two seperate line cords then just buy an L!+L2 to 4 wire line cord converter (US$3.50) and again, you're done.

btw - by "cell or other land line" I hope you mean "land line" or "home phone" or whatever. if you have a cell phone (real cellular service) then you'll need a simple box that converts cellular to home style wiring ($100.00) before you can join it with your vonage line in the two line phone mentioned above (or in a telephone system of any type).

Good luck.

peasngrits wrote:

You could do this with Asterisk if you happened to have an entire PC with two line cards lying around, but it's swatting a fly with a shovel.

What you want is known as a line extender, you dial in on one line, enter an access code, then you can dial out on a second line. They used to be available all over the place, but I guess that as long distance charges have approached zero in the US, people have much less reason to use all the hacks they used to do to make cheap phone calls.

Here's one that will do what you want. It lists for about $300, Froogle has it as cheap as $268.

How exactly would a two line phone allow the OP to call in on one leg and out the other?

yup, my bad. when I initially read this I took it to mean "bridge a call".

Rod Dorman wrote: