What Are You Doing Right Now
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@BRRABill uh oh
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver My own PBX.
Do you have hardware you can run it on?
Not currently, no. I wanted to compile information before I purchased
Well you can easily run a PBX in a VM. FreePBX is the way to go and is basically an appliance. Download the iso and install it on a VM. Then look at options for SIP trunks (or use Google Voice) and you will be good to go.
What google voice options are available for FreePBX? I setup a FreePBX for my house for testing with, but didn't setup a voip.ms account as I didn't want to pay money for something to play with
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver My own PBX.
Do you have hardware you can run it on?
Not currently, no. I wanted to compile information before I purchased
Well you can easily run a PBX in a VM. FreePBX is the way to go and is basically an appliance. Download the iso and install it on a VM. Then look at options for SIP trunks (or use Google Voice) and you will be good to go.
What google voice options are available for FreePBX? I setup a FreePBX for my house for testing with, but didn't setup a voip.ms account as I didn't want to pay money for something to play with
Look into the Google Voice motif. There are instructions to setting up online.
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@coliver Any physical phone recommendations?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver My own PBX.
Do you have hardware you can run it on?
Not currently, no. I wanted to compile information before I purchased
Well you can easily run a PBX in a VM. FreePBX is the way to go and is basically an appliance. Download the iso and install it on a VM. Then look at options for SIP trunks (or use Google Voice) and you will be good to go.
That's it? Crazy. You think I should go with the Ubiquiti phones? I read something (granted it was from 2015) that said the security gateway was required for them. Unsure if this is still the case.
Do you already have a cell phone? If you are just doing this to test and play then softphones will do the majority of what you want to do.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver My own PBX.
Do you have hardware you can run it on?
Not currently, no. I wanted to compile information before I purchased
Well you can easily run a PBX in a VM. FreePBX is the way to go and is basically an appliance. Download the iso and install it on a VM. Then look at options for SIP trunks (or use Google Voice) and you will be good to go.
That's it? Crazy. You think I should go with the Ubiquiti phones? I read something (granted it was from 2015) that said the security gateway was required for them. Unsure if this is still the case.
Do you already have a cell phone? If you are just doing this to test and play then softphones will do the majority of what you want to do.
No I want to actually use it as a house phone. Emergency dial doesn't matter.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver Any physical phone recommendations?
Yealink, inexpensive and feature-full.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill uh oh
No, it very well might be!
I'm curious to know because that's something I want to look into as well.
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Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
Hiwaay. Some podunk BS out of Huntsville, AL. Have I mentioned that my bosses, while quite tech savvy, are also very nostalgic? This is the same service we have had since 2008, when the company was in Huntsville.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
Hiwaay. Some podunk BS out of Huntsville, AL. Have I mentioned that my bosses, while quite tech savvy, are also very nostalgic? This is the same service we have had since 2008, when the company was in Huntsville.
Well, if this is a regular problem, maybe it's time to switch.
I'll be ditching my hosted spam filter next summer when we migrate to O365 (I hope).
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
Hiwaay. Some podunk BS out of Huntsville, AL. Have I mentioned that my bosses, while quite tech savvy, are also very nostalgic? This is the same service we have had since 2008, when the company was in Huntsville.
Well, if this is a regular problem, maybe it's time to switch.
I'll be ditching my hosted spam filter next summer when we migrate to O365 (I hope).
Eh we're adding a barracuda in the next month. Office365's spam filter does a decent job, but not an amazing job.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
Hiwaay. Some podunk BS out of Huntsville, AL. Have I mentioned that my bosses, while quite tech savvy, are also very nostalgic? This is the same service we have had since 2008, when the company was in Huntsville.
Well, if this is a regular problem, maybe it's time to switch.
I'll be ditching my hosted spam filter next summer when we migrate to O365 (I hope).
This is only the second outage in 3 years, so it's not a huge issue. I'd still love to switch to something else, as their interface feels cheap and outdated.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
Hiwaay. Some podunk BS out of Huntsville, AL. Have I mentioned that my bosses, while quite tech savvy, are also very nostalgic? This is the same service we have had since 2008, when the company was in Huntsville.
Well, if this is a regular problem, maybe it's time to switch.
I'll be ditching my hosted spam filter next summer when we migrate to O365 (I hope).
Eh we're adding a barracuda in the next month. Office365's spam filter does a decent job, but not an amazing job.
And doesnt have those handy backdoors like the Barracuda.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting on our hosted spam filter to get back online.
Who do you use? I've with with Appriver for 15+ years and never had an outage.
Hiwaay. Some podunk BS out of Huntsville, AL. Have I mentioned that my bosses, while quite tech savvy, are also very nostalgic? This is the same service we have had since 2008, when the company was in Huntsville.
Well, if this is a regular problem, maybe it's time to switch.
I'll be ditching my hosted spam filter next summer when we migrate to O365 (I hope).
Eh we're adding a barracuda in the next month. Office365's spam filter does a decent job, but not an amazing job.
And doesnt have those handy backdoors like the Barracuda.
Tell me about it.... actually don't I want plausible deniability...
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver Any physical phone recommendations?
We normally use Yealink too for hard phones. Plus Snom is good. Polycom is good but very expensive. Ubiquiti looks awesome but we've not tried them ourselves yet. Sangomo has some nice looking stuff.
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@scottalanmiller From what I read, Ubiquiti phones require the security appliance currently.
EDIT: The currently part of this is incorrect.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver My own PBX.
Do you have hardware you can run it on?
Not currently, no. I wanted to compile information before I purchased
Well you can easily run a PBX in a VM. FreePBX is the way to go and is basically an appliance. Download the iso and install it on a VM. Then look at options for SIP trunks (or use Google Voice) and you will be good to go.
That's it? Crazy. You think I should go with the Ubiquiti phones? I read something (granted it was from 2015) that said the security gateway was required for them. Unsure if this is still the case.
They work with any standard SIP based system. They are designed to work with the USG though.
I do not see the value int he devices. They are too expensive for general use desk phones.
I mean, yeah, I would love to have one and see if they work well. But they are just too expensive to be realistically used everywhere.
Get a Yealink T40P for like $80 or less for home.
