SPA3000 linksys PSTN and VOIP?

Post by **Kroonen** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:50 pm

Hi

I want to buy an SPA3000 from linksys. As I see, I can put my analog line and an extra voip line on it, like voipbuster?

Is this working with asterisk, and how do I connect it, just over LAN, and can I see than caller id from and pstn caller with asterisk (numberdisplay feature on my pstn I have from KPN)?

Post by **Snelvuur** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:07 pm

why would you want an analog line?

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Kroonen** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:10 pm

I still have it, for my wife and i won't change it for her. So it should also be nice, if it's possible with this, ring also the pstn line to voip softphone on my wifi pda

Post by **Snelvuur** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:31 pm

You can always keep your number, but put it on voip. Can be cheap, http://www.budgetphone.nl/ has cheap voip services, and work with asterisk too.

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Bwired** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:08 am

If you want caller id on a PSTN line you need to activate it with KPN. Extra cost like 1+ euro a month. Then the SPA can relay it. I have no in depth with asterix. I have now like ISDN and POTS and VOIP but still not the right setting. A year ago I fooled around with VOIP but I was not happy with the quality at all. I planning to give it a try again soon:-)

Post by **MindBender** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:46 am

I installed an SPA3000 at my parents also with a budget phone account, but it's giving huge echoes and propagation delays when I'm calling it with my Grandstream gpx-2000 phone through VoipBuster... The costumer service of BudgetPhone is very friendly, but they keep on turning of their caller ID every month and my phone is full of missed anonymous calls...

Post by **Snelvuur** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:12 am

good thing i have xs4all which comes with 2 sip accounts, works like a charm. There are more voip providers like budgetphone though. Check out the asterisk section on GOT (tweakers forum)

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **MindBender** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:59 am

But to stick with Eric's initial questions:

Yes, you can connect an SPA3000 to SIP providers like BudgetPhone and
VoipBuster. In fact, it's a good idea to set it up to connect it to both since VoipBuster no longer hands out Dutch telephone numbers. Budget phone does, but calls are more expensive there. With an advance dial-plan (query http://gathering.tweakers.net for SPA3000) you can direct calls to the cheapest account.

Why use Asterisk? Do you have such a complex telephone system? When using just a SPA3000 you don't really need anything else. Only if you'd like to connect multiple SIP phones at one SIP account you'd need Asterisk, but in that case I'd consider SipX (www.sipfoundry.org) instead.

PSTN caller-ID is compatible in all ways you'd expect it. The SPA3000 generates a Dutch KPN compatible ID for your analog telephone(s). On the SIP side you're depending on your SIP provider. Budget phone does a good job, but in my experience they switch off your outgoing ID every once in a while. No problem of getting it re-enabled though. SIP callers who identify themselves properly will show up on your analog phone(s) as well, just as incoming analog PSTN calls. With callers using VoipBuster however it's a bit different: If they don't have a VoipBuster number, they will show up anonymously, regardless whether they have a BudgetPhone number or not.

Hope this helps.