Sometimes you can get lousy results with multiple conversions between digital and analog, especially when the phone call has been through a high-compression codec like Lingo is likely to use. For instance, sometimes I find that VoIP calls to/from digital cell phones are quite bad quality.
miguel
I've looked through the posts at my ISP and don't see a FAQ for this group. There must be other newbies who've asked the same sort of thing.
Can I use Asterix to provide analog telephone service to multiple phones in my home if I drop all POTS service and sign up with Lingo or Vonage? I see on Lingo's site that they require their own specific routers for their customers. Does that mean the "analog line" coming from there is incompatible with Asterix?
My house is wired with lots of Cat5E (two to each room) in a homerun scheme from the office where the cable modem and firewall are. These are all brand new lines completely distinct from the old POTS wiring. I'd like to set one line for ethernet and the other for analog phone service from Asterix if I can use it (Asterix) with a VOIP provider.
Thanks,
Joe
Is it possible to do anything to improve the quality? It's not like boosting the signal on tv connections, but maybe there are different algorithms that preserve higher quality? How much, if any, of that would be under my control?
Thanks,
Joe
Vonage and Lingo both want you to use their own equipment. Some other VoIP providers don't. Broadvoice specifically supports Asterisk and provides config instructions, iconnecthere and voicepulse say it's OK.
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