What Are You Doing Right Now

EddieJennings

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've had Altigen before. It truly sucks.

The system hasn't been terrible, but it's not flexible, and also we need to get away from hosting this PBX on premises. The hosted Altigen solutions I looked at a year ago when this project was first born were 2x to 3x more expensive than FreePBX hosted somewhere with a SIP provider.

Dashrender

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I have a thread around here some where a few months ago where I looked at the cost of ripping out my Mitel system and replacing it with FreePBX and Yeahlink phones - it was more cost effective for a few reasons.

current phone system is serving all needs

replacing current system vs updating already completely paid for system was $12K more.

Even Scott agreed that because of the spent money already in place, that keeping my current system was likely the better move.

These are some of the problems I see with keeping the on-premises Altigen system.

Special licensing is required to used non-Altigen phones.

Actually purchasing Altigen phones is becoming more and more difficult as I believe Altigen doesn't make them anymore.

The actual hardware is an Altigen appliance that has aging hardware and is running 32-bit Windows 7 ultimate.

I'll look for your thread though.

Part of the difference is that he has fairly decent SIP trunk pricing already. So the RoI on switching only hardware is very low comparatively.

Granted it is a shitty SIP trunk.

What? Switching the SIP has nothing to do with the hardware? Unless a hardware/software purchase to support SIP is required. Now @EddieJennings did say he'd need a new license to support it, so that is definitely a factor.

Dashrender

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've had Altigen before. It truly sucks.

The system hasn't been terrible, but it's not flexible, and also we need to get away from hosting this PBX on premises. The hosted Altigen solutions I looked at a year ago when this project was first born were 2x to 3x more expensive than FreePBX hosted somewhere with a SIP provider.

That's all? only 2-3x as much? Hosting a FreePBX costs like $6/month from Vultr. If hosting your Altigen only costs $12-18/month, that will take a lot of savings to climb over the cost of new phones for a FreePBX system.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I have a thread around here some where a few months ago where I looked at the cost of ripping out my Mitel system and replacing it with FreePBX and Yeahlink phones - it was more cost effective for a few reasons.

current phone system is serving all needs

replacing current system vs updating already completely paid for system was $12K more.

Even Scott agreed that because of the spent money already in place, that keeping my current system was likely the better move.

These are some of the problems I see with keeping the on-premises Altigen system.

Special licensing is required to used non-Altigen phones.

Actually purchasing Altigen phones is becoming more and more difficult as I believe Altigen doesn't make them anymore.

The actual hardware is an Altigen appliance that has aging hardware and is running 32-bit Windows 7 ultimate.

I'll look for your thread though.

Part of the difference is that he has fairly decent SIP trunk pricing already. So the RoI on switching only hardware is very low comparatively.

Granted it is a shitty SIP trunk.

What? Switching the SIP has nothing to do with the hardware? Unless a hardware/software purchase to support SIP is required. Now @EddieJennings did say he'd need a new license to support it, so that is definitely a factor.

WTF are you talking about?

My comment was directly pointing out that you already have a (shitty) SIP provider that gives a better cost than legacy POTS/PRI services, and because of that you have a very low ROI in switching hardware along with changing SIP providers.

Of course changing hardware alone will never have any ROI. It is an expense. The ROI is based on the entire project.

EddieJennings

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've had Altigen before. It truly sucks.

The system hasn't been terrible, but it's not flexible, and also we need to get away from hosting this PBX on premises. The hosted Altigen solutions I looked at a year ago when this project was first born were 2x to 3x more expensive than FreePBX hosted somewhere with a SIP provider.

That's all? only 2-3x as much? Hosting a FreePBX costs like $6/month from Vultr. If hosting your Altigen only costs $12-18/month, that will take a lot of savings to climb over the cost of new phones for a FreePBX system.

From what I recall, Altigen was something like $20 / seat / month. Also we have a couple of hundred folks who are virtual extensions who basically only have a mailbox. There is a desire for these folks to start making calls, which for Altigen, would create another "seat."

stacksofplates

Experimenting with Tower's API for physical system installations.

scottalanmiller

Where has @creayt been hiding?

JaredBusch

I am pondering how companies like this can stay in business..
https://community.freepbx.org/t/error-message-when-installing-freepbx-on-centos-7-not-asterisk-user/42212

nadnerB

Trying to get my Quake style hotkey console to work on my new workstation.
Have the script, AutoHotkey but I've misplaced the setup destructions...

scottalanmiller

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to get my Quake style hotkey console to work on my new workstation.
Have the script, AutoHotkey but I've misplaced the setup destructions...

I love having a Quake console.

scottalanmiller

It's an evening of fighting kids around here. Argh.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's an evening of fighting kids around here. Argh.

At 1 AM or are you in Texas and it's only midnight?

nadnerB

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's an evening of fighting kids around here. Argh.

Hunger Games playing out in your house?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's an evening of fighting kids around here. Argh.

At 1 AM or are you in Texas and it's only midnight?

Only midnight.