@EddieJennings I don't know about the third, but if you start a hosting trial at freepbxhosting.com you get the first two free. Even if you then mode your install to Vultr it seems the licenses follow you for free.

@scottalanmiller is right. The bottleneck is always the customer router. And not so much bandwidth as much as packets per second. Your dropbox sync is killing your phone calls 50 to 1 over bandwidth 99% of the time. Your $50 linksys router can't handle a million pps.

Most ISP's are little more than Broadsoft resellers with no interconnects in their local market. Even on the WISP side speeds are so good now that bundling voice isn't relevant.

I think I understand the basic process of the scammer.

They call us toll-free. During that toll-free call, they use the compromised extension to make a long-distance call.

With T56 series here the 48s dropped down to $170 range, everything else has gotten even cheaper.

The t56a is the cost that Yealink 48s was a month ago, and it is android. About $199.

I got Ubiquiti phones in to test and have updated them a couple times. At last pass they still couldn't park or use BLF reliably.

I can't imagine leaving Yealink.

@JaredBusch said in Wazo 17.07 is released:

@StuartJordan said in Wazo 17.07 is released:

Wow, what's this, never seen this project before...Looks awesome.

Yes it is has great potential. I installed a prior version and had no problem getting calls working.

It was most certainly not ready for production though IMO.

I can't wait to try this new release out.

I await your review and comparison to FreePBX.

@Dashrender said in FreePBX and VoIP presentations:

@jt1001001 said in FreePBX and VoIP presentations:

ok I'm going to ask, but I know this will cause trouble. What about fax on FreePBX; or should we use cloud services? (he says crouched down behind his desk waiting for the onslaught)

FreePBX has a built in fax module. It can receive faxes no problem - it's sending that I'm not sure it can do.

I am personally curious how many incoming faxes it can handle before it has issues? My office gets around 650 pages of faxes a day, there was a concern around ML that FreePBX might not handle that well.

FreePBX can handle it fine.

My concern is the trunk that he fax comes in on.

@TeleFox we have a quite old (few years) PBX which has been used in the years adding new and new phone lines with the company expansion. last batch of additions was 6 months ago: 5 new seats with new phones and headsets. PBX is Aastra with proprietary digital phones.

the company bought a new erp last december, against my advice they also buyed a generic "VoIP-ERP integration package". we are now implementing the ERP and the sysadmin at the ERP consulting firm pointed out to me that the package actually is a proprietary VoIP PBX based on asterisk.
the solution involves something around 10 or 15 people (depending on the layout of the customer care dept), company has somethin like 40 phones bwteen DECT and digital deskphones.

so we can:

throw away the new asterisk PBX (wasted 4k€), sorry 15 people throw away current Aastra PBX , redoing a lot of cabling and rebuying the entire equipement for 40 between wirede and DECT phones try to integrate the 2, especially considering than it is right to isolate the ERP asterisk thing as you would not to depend on an erp for your phone system (ok, redo VoIP wiring and equipement if you want but choose a different strategy!)

now both current PBX managing firm and the carrier have found a number potential solutions (basically a sip trunk between the 2 PBXes).

hope this clarifies!

@Dashrender said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@JaredBusch said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@Breffni-Potter said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@JaredBusch said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@Breffni-Potter said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

Cool, Irrelevant tech.

Hardly relevant, there are a lot of these systems out there and they need to be serviced and replaced.

Fixed.

No, as shown by @Dashrender The other day the song cost of an existing system can still outweigh the cost of replacement

Song cost, eh? :P

Yes, the Sunk cost for me saved me about $12K over upgrading to FreePBX.

Well you've heard the impression "he got it for a song", right?

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX extension oddity:

@art_of_shred you need to have the process started over.

Original phone on original port and verify behavior.

Original phone on new port and verify behavior.

We had the original phone on the original port that was malfunctioning as described in the OP. We replaced the phone and got the same result. The new phone, which had the same exact behavior as the original (so it's not the phone) was moved to another port and had the same issue plus the lack of audio on the other end of a call.

@Mike-Ralston look at the PBX I have with NTG you can see outbound route there like that

equivalent GUI settings.

@MattSpeller

Disco ball, strobe light & laser beams. Got it.

@JaredBusch said in Wazo 16.16 First Look:

Not seeing anything in the Wazo documentation on how to set this up either.

In the early release, definitely is looking like it is a bit hard to use. It's early though, hopefully that stuff will follow soon.

@scottalanmiller Thank you.

I do notice that Linphone provides real time feedback no individual calls, which is nice.

@scottalanmiller fwconsole starts asterisk, and it makes sure it's started and running with the correct UID

Or it should. It did last time I checked 8)

Edit: Saying that, I believe I was the last one that messed with that code, so if it's NOT working, it's probably my fault.

https://github.com/FreePBX/framework/blob/release/13.0/amp_conf/htdocs/admin/libraries/Console/Start.class.php#L147

@tm1000 said in FreePBX 13 No Conference Room App:

This was happening because for some reason the conbridge.conf file (or an include therein) was not being created correctly and thus because conf files were missing confbridge was never loaded. I believe this was because conferences was not originally included in the tarball for 13 but we fixed this so it should be OK???? Not sure...

It was fixed this week? It was just six days ago that we saw it, but it's not been re-run since then.

@fuznutz04 @Reid-Cooper I'm logged in as the admin, never logged in as otherwise on this phone.

@JaredBusch said in Elastix Time Restriction:

@AlyRagab said in Elastix Time Restriction:

Here We can do it per Extension :

http://www.asteriskdocs.org/en/3rd_Edition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/asterisk-CHP-6-SECT-3.html

and

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+GotoIfTime

Yes, but that is getting way beyond Elastix and into raw Asterisk programming.

What was said above was reference of how to handle it inside the GUI itself.

Both methods work, but dropping to manual editing of configuration files should normally be avoided whenever possible as that makes it harder to use the built in tools for backup and recovery.

Also, upgrades will often over write manual changes like this, meaning you have to remember and reply them after updates/upgrades.

Thanks Jared, that was informative video about VOIP.

@scottalanmiller So since I posted the OP, I found out what the issue was. (or at least eliminated it by changing a setting.) On old versions of FreePBX, in Advanced SIP settings, in order to enable TCP connections, you had to manually type:

tcpenable =yes

In new versions, there is now a button to enable TCP. Having both settings enabled seems to cause these issues. Most likely, the config file for sip.conf gets messed up having these similar/identical settings. Removing the old entry eliminates the errors.

@JaredBusch

Excellent. BTW, the UI for the EdgeSwitch on the latest firmware is pretty nice. A lot nicer than the Dell switches I'm used to configuring in the past.

@JaredBusch said in Vitelity: billing issue?:

@FATeknollogee said in Vitelity: billing issue?:

Account was suspended (aka locked). Since it happened at 2AM, impact was minimal.

Wow, there should be some kind of fraud check that should kick in before an account gets auto suspended for somehow getting $16 in charges in less than 24 hours.

Major failure.

That's what I would think. Like a human looking at it, at least.

@JaredBusch said in 3CX Linux Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in 3CX Linux Beta:

@JaredBusch Been a while, but that is more like what I remember. It wasn't "horrible", but it is high. But you do get support, which is something.

This new pricing is not anything i consider high at all.

For the feature set, this price point is spot on.

Even with FreePBX based systems, to get near feature parity, you will pay about that much.

Things like Endpoint Manager Pro, etc.

Of course with the Asterisk route, you can roll it all yourself. BUt time is money and this price point makes it worth it. That is the same reason I have clients buy the Endpoint manager module. Or parking pro, or conference pro, or whatever, depending on the company needs.

Oh I agree. The issues are when customers or end users don't need feature parity. If they just want lots of reliable calls and conference rooms, for example. We've used 3CX and FreePBX and for our needs, for example, FreePBX has more features for free than 3CX has paid. So it depends on the use case.

@DustinB3403 said in VoIP.ms inbound issues today:

@JaredBusch So just half of the US is reporting outages.

Wow someone at Level 3 is gonna get murdered over this.

I spot an RGE!

@Dashrender said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

@Dashrender said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

I don't understand what it's asking - Numbers internal start/end Numbers interval start/end?

Yeah, it's is a multi-tenant system so it needs info about individual organizations that will be handled by the system. Threw me too.

OK well now I'm even more lost. Internal Calls context I took to mean the extensions of the phones in your facility - OK pretty straight forward, you're allowing for extensions 1000-2000, but what are InCalls Context? I have no idea what that even means?

Inbound calls and outbound calls respectively.

Context is an Asterisk term.

It is something I looked at, but with no desire to try and enter an already overcrowded market, I passed on it.

Once upon a time, I know there was an A2Billing module of some kind for the FreePBX GUI for people to get info from their local installs with.

I am trying to set up an incoming access number and use it in a pinless scenario. I don't actually have it connected to any phone system per se.