Re: Basic Asterisk question.

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Grimshaw wrote:

> I've just been searching through the archive looking at Asterisk
posts, looking for an answer to the following question, and the answer will
determine if I have a play or not.
>
> What hardware do I need to be able to connect my normal house phones
to Asterisk? I'm not bothered about having an individual extension in each
room or anything like that.
>
To connect analogue phones to a * box, you need an FXS card -
http://www.voiptalk.org/products/index.php?cPath=21_25
or one of these
http://www.voiptalk.org/products/product_info.php?cPath=37&products_id=74

To connect a * box to an analogue phone line, you need an FXO card
http://www.voiptalk.org/products/index.php?cPath=21_24
(cheap knock offs
available on ebay, I have one which seems to work fine... was < £20
IIRC)

At the moment, my playing with * has been with softphones running on a
couple of PCs and the aforementioned knock off FXO card to interface to
my analogue line. I really should try to find more time to play with it
but there are never enough hours in the day :/

Cheers
--
Doogie