I use:

Standard Panasonic Dect into a PAP2 w/ sipgate

Panasonic Globarange w/ JoIP (locked and not impressed)

DualPhone DECT Skype phone w/ landline
No need for PC.

Of the 3, the Skype DualPhone was the easiest to setup and use oh and the call quality is the best. I also find it cheaper than the alternatives.
I have a 0208 Skype-In number meaning that I can receive calls from anyone, anywhere and I pay for a Skype-Pro subscription which gives me unlimited minutes to landline phones for £1.50 p/m

I have a trixbox server  

nice.
I set that up for a proof of concept at work but I couldnt make it cost effective for the 20+ sites / 300+ phone extensions wed need to support.

Turns out its cheaper to just buy a load of skype phones :s (Even though that means were totally reliant on the P2P network not being destroyed by the ISPs).

Skype doesnt run on P2P ports mate...

I run asterisk proper - trixbox is ok to start but its full of that many hacks and patches none of it really works as it should

I use these for my handsets





I have 3 of them, and a couple of 7961s

have an FXO card in the asterisk server so i can use our POTS line, and I have an E1 thats paid for by work, as I have an IVR set up for the pair of us that operate in the north.

Backup is over the internet to a number of SIP providers

I ordered one of those 25quid ones, worst case is itll go straight on ebay.

Quote from: MarkI run asterisk proper - trixbox is ok to start but its full of that many hacks and patches none of it really works as it should

I use these for my handsets

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I have 3 of them, and a couple of 7961s

have an FXO card in the asterisk server so i can use our POTS line, and I have an E1 thats paid for by work, as I have an IVR set up for the pair of us that operate in the north.

Backup is over the internet to a number of SIP providers

I want one of those!

I have a Cisco phone as well, they work quite well, but mine is a plain office one aquired from an office (7960 series), not the fancy ones that display video as well.
I managed to get my trixbox/asterisk (tbh I thought they was 1 & the same) working exactly how I wanted & havent needed to touch it since.
I got a spare FXO card somwhere.. was cheaper to buy 2x from sweden than it was for 1x from the UK - dont know why I bothered because the
whole house is hasnt been wired for RJ11 & have no intentions of having a landphone installed.

Just waiting for my mate to get his hands on a Wifi phone for me (he works for Nortel) - only been waiting a 12month  

because we are a trapeze reseller I have a GSM/Wifi Gateway appliance ready to be opened in my study

When I plumb it in I will be able to roam from GSM to my asterisk seamless

You can use many Nokia phones as SIP handsets wirelessly with asterisk, its piss easy setting them up as an extension

should be handy enough in freePBX as well

trixbox is based on asterisk, with many hacks and patches applied - and management utilities like FreePBX loaded.

Quote from: Markbecause we are a trapeze reseller I have a GSM/Wifi Gateway appliance ready to be opened in my study

When I plumb it in I will be able to roam from GSM to my asterisk seamless

You can use many Nokia phones as SIP handsets wirelessly with asterisk, its piss easy setting them up as an extension

should be handy enough in freePBX as well

yep thats the plan.. I currently got SIP working on an n73 running through the 3g/gprs connection as it dont have wifi!
I use fring as the 3rd party app on my phone & sipgate as the incoming call that also works my asterisk/trixbox server.
Works well enough for needs - though the quality aint brilliant for the obvious reasons on my n73.
Upgrade time soon & Im holding off for the n96 - then Ill be in business :oD

Quote from: MaldonadoSkype doesnt run on P2P ports mate...

No, I know that it doesnt use standard P2P ports but the design of the network / carriage of call data is utilises P2P.
I was playing with identifying and setting QoS against Skype traffic with my Cisco router. If I can do that then it really wouldnt be too hard for ISPs to identify and block Skype traffic.

Id really like to get Asterisk deployed at work but I just dont get the time to properly investigate it.
Its all a bit more complicated than Id like. I need to have a single Asterisk box acting as a SIP PBX for all extension across 23 sites.
Each extension has to be a DECT handset and have access to a landline that is local to the extension (and remote from the Asterisk box) and provided by a POTS PBX.
I started looking at installing PAP2 type devices on each DECT extension, with the PAP2 logging into a single Asterisk box over the web. Unfortunately I couldnt figure out an easy way to deploy the PAP2 configuration automagically to each PAP2 and the thought of manually configuring 300 PAP2s put the project on hold

I probably just need to sit down and start again. The problem I have is that with limited knowledge comes bad decisions. Im sure there are better ways to achieve what I want too but I just havent found them yet.

What youre describing would be relatively painless

All you need is a site to site VPN between your sites and head office - you could easily serve this with a cheap fortinet or checkpoint safe@office box.

An ATA at each site configured as an extension on asterisk, all you need is the mac address. Your firewalls local to the sites then just need a simple crypto rule (or encrypt rule if checkpoint) to direct the voice traffic off to/from the PBX

I wouldnt use one of those PAP2s - youd probably be better off with an ATA186

I would also recommend buying g.729 codec licenses, as it is more suited to a WAN environment.

htf does it work then? If I dial from the skype interface the phone rings but the handset doesnt do anything.

If I dial from the handset I get a funny wwwwwhhh tone.#

edit: oic!

Quote from: Nimrod

Quote from: MaldonadoSkype doesnt run on P2P ports mate...

No, I know that it doesnt use standard P2P ports but the design of the network / carriage of call data is utilises P2P.
I was playing with identifying and setting QoS against Skype traffic with my Cisco router. If I can do that then it really wouldnt be too hard for ISPs to identify and block Skype traffic.

Id really like to get Asterisk deployed at work but I just dont get the time to properly investigate it.
Its all a bit more complicated than Id like. I need to have a single Asterisk box acting as a SIP PBX for all extension across 23 sites.
Each extension has to be a DECT handset and have access to a landline that is local to the extension (and remote from the Asterisk box) and provided by a POTS PBX.
I started looking at installing PAP2 type devices on each DECT extension, with the PAP2 logging into a single Asterisk box over the web. Unfortunately I couldnt figure out an easy way to deploy the PAP2 configuration automagically to each PAP2 and the thought of manually configuring 300 PAP2s put the project on hold

I probably just need to sit down and start again. The problem I have is that with limited knowledge comes bad decisions. Im sure there are better ways to achieve what I want too but I just havent found them yet.

However there are apps out there that can grab and deploy XML files containing the configuration for pap2 devices, not sure if it has been used on a mass deployment as they are intended for backup purposes and stuff.

And mark the ATA186 is a pap2 in a cisco shell. Considering linksys are owned by cisco...