One way another, GUI or not, that start screen is butt ugly. Functional but.....

@Reid-Cooper said:

Hopefully this means even more commercial development in FreePBX. It's a good product but could use polishing.

The new version that "just" became stable is fairly good. I'm going to deploy it to replace an old Trixbox server at our NC site. Not flashy by any stretch but very functional.

Was it just the nic driver or single nic shared by many vms?

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Having to put in IP's doesn't allow for roaming users.

It can be done by extension, so some extensions are locked and some can roam. You can lock to IP blocks as well, so roaming just within regions.

Are you less worried about this because of the IP Tables AJ mentioned you wrote?

You should see this thing. It's extensive.

@scottalanmiller said:

Elastix has been keeping VERY up to date on Asterisk, just not other packages.

They just rub me the wrong way with the support cycle anymore. Really regretting using Elastix back in March for this last roll out.

@scottalanmiller said:

I thought three lines were overkill 🙂

I find three perfect in order to have extra lines for testing stuff. But yeah generally 1 is enough for almost all business use.

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse no phone is useful without a PBX. How are you functioning without a PBX today? Are you paying for a 1960s Key System from the phone company?

Uhm yea - about that,...We have a onsite Nortel NorStar system at the main office,.. but I'm pretty sure it is otherwise POTS.... as it 90% of all of our remote sites. It was this way when I started last year - but I fully plan to move us into the modern world...

Nortel made PBXs, long ago. That's just an old PBX.

POTS is the outside lines, doesn't refer to the inside ones. At a minimum that's almost certainly a digital (not IP) phone system. Pretty rough, though.

Thanks guys, I missed the fact that this was a 'soft phone'

@Dominica exactly. And you would be struggling to even do that. If locked down the extension would be locked by IP range and the phone would hopefully be blocked from making its own external VPN connections. So it really would only be a gateway to other security flaws. On its own it should do very little.

So which product did you end up using in the end?

Thanks @JaredBusch I will reach out to you on Monday to discuss the details!

@NetworkNerd said:

@Hubtech said:

I read that....but i want a client. we want more we want more.

I thought I read somewhere there was a client that worked with Hylafax, but I'd rather punch a wall and break my hand than try messing with it.

baha good luck with that! yes, i have tried a couple oft these clients to no avail.

We use an international blocking trunk provider. It's great peace of mind.

@scottalanmiller greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, that's what i'm looking for, a bunch of experts willing to help and share their knowledge with other people,
really people will appreciate your work, thanks

@FiyaFly said:

I was recently doing a PBX install for someone and they were using a Sangoma Gateway. At first, it looked pretty simple and straightforward. The instructions to configure it with Elastix were about as straightforward as can be. If only it worked that way...

I ran into many little obstacles that I didn't expect to see with this setup. First, we couldn't get a SIP account to register as the instructions told us to do. Then, fax information seems to be stuttering and not passing through the way it's supposed to. DTMF tones transmit in a way that is completely arbitrary to the settings that are mentioned. As icing on the cake, for some reason it felt the need to strip the first character of the CID off as well.

Am I just severely unlucky or has anyone else had troubles like these with gateway devices for a PRI?

I have never used these PRI gateways. I have only had to deal with FXO/FXS interconnections. I have read mixed reviews on the Sangoma brand. Generally, once up and working they are great, but sometimes people cannot make them work. Again I have no personal experience with them though.

@Katie said:

What are the pros and cons of implementing an open-source PBX as opposed to a proprietary system?
I've worked in shops that ran Cisco Unity, and after that - Shoretel. I found Shoretel to be a great deal easier to learn over the Cisco system and had a fairly easy time administering it.
How do these compare to something like Elastix or Asterisk?
3CX is also a good solution, but it is not an open source one. I personally do not prefer it, but if you have a windows license to spare for a VM, it is quite easy to setup and not nearly as expensive as other options.
I use PBX in a Flash simply because I do not need the simplified Elastix interface and I want more up to date versions. If the Elastix team put more effort into staying updated I would use it everywhere.

You hit the nail on the head about the true cost of switching the phone system though. No matter what you go to, if it is not a true upgrade,you will have to redesign all of the call handling from scratch. The thing you need to validate with you upgrade is whether or not it is a 100% no reconfig needed upgrade. If there is time not accounted for to do something like that, then you just leveled the playing field again.

@NetworkNerd said:

This was something @FiyaFly and I worked on together, and I believe he was the one who fully resolved it by changing the baud rate settings on the physical fax machine. But I can say for a fact that this setup worked and is still working today at the site in question.

good job 🙂

@scottalanmiller Correct. Windstream, Patech, Cavelier all the same shiz. and shiz they are.