diegoev (July 15, 2008 at 8:14 pm)

Asterisk sucks compared to FreeSWITCH, but FreeSWITCH also sucks in some ways.

holon67 (July 1, 2008 at 12:49 am)

hey, i cant even tell you are from georgia, cept for the out of sync audio, lol, latency?

thisisalex02 (April 12, 2008 at 8:16 pm)

asterisknow is not so bad to get up and running.. as long as you know your config files

sjsonny (December 13, 2007 at 9:58 pm)

If you're still having problems with this, check the md5 hash to ensure the download was not corrupted. I had to download twice to get it to work. Good luck.

leetware (September 16, 2007 at 6:04 am)

I have tryed out AsteriskNow and have found it to be very buggy. Better off learning how to compile asterisk in a linux term will be a more stable system. AsteriskNow im my opinion is no good for a production business phone system unless you can afford downtime.

ForTheHellOfItFilms (August 29, 2007 at 3:44 am)

lol

jnnl1 (July 20, 2007 at 4:41 am)

hey could anyone help me out!I tried installing asterisk but as soon as I press enter for installation the next screen doesnt come up instead it says that it cant recognize the CD and the required rpath files.But the rpath files were there inside. ????

mspiceland (May 11, 2007 at 10:08 pm)

As for the hardware, the easiest thing to do is to install a PCI card from digium because it will work out of the box and be supported natively by Asterisk now. The Digium TDM10B Single FXS is about $150 retail. For about $50-90 you can get an network based Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) that will have an FXS port. Digium makes one called the IAXy. You can then configure it and configure AsteriskNOW to get it to work.

mspiceland (May 11, 2007 at 10:06 pm)

Get an old PC. Install hardware that will give you an FXS port for plugging a phone into. Download and install AsteriskNOW onto that PC. Done.

ungchungs (May 11, 2007 at 9:47 pm)

I like the idea of making and receiving calls while away from home. Not to sound like an idiot, but what is the easiest (or should I say the least expensive) way to set this up for home use? I assume I need to buy special hardware since I don't currently have VoIP (I'm using a standard landline).